English Curriculum & ICT Links - Infants

Strands, Strand Units & ICT Links

Strand Unit: Oral Language

Oral Language - CrickWeb Literacy

Oral Language – Listen & Respond

Oral Language – Language Cards

Oral Language – Flashcard Generator

Oral Language – Letter Stories

Descriptor of Resource & Learning Objective

• Listen to a story or description and respond to it

• Hear, repeat and elaborate words, phrases and sentences modelled by the teacher

• Focus on descriptive detail and begin to be explicit in relation to people, places, times, processes, events, colour, shape, size, position

Strand Unit: Reading

Reading - Starfall Poetry

Reading - Literactive

Reading – Starfall Reading

Reading – BookPop Stories

Reading – Letter Sounds

• Re-read, retell and act out familiar stories, poems or parts of stories

• Listen to, enjoy and respond to stories, nursery rhymes, poems and songs

• Encounter early reading through collaborative reading of language-experience material

Strand Unit : Writing

Writing – Magic Key Writing

Writing – Skywriter Letters

Writing - Printables

Writing - Frameworks

Writing – Jenny Eather Site

· Learn to form and name individual letters using various materials

• See the teacher model writing as an enjoyable experience

• Hear a rich variety of stories, rhymes and songs and draw and write about them