Band 1 – Pink – Working Towards Level 1

Band 1 – Pink – Working Towards Level 1



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Learning opportunities

Locate title
Open front cover
Turn pages appropriately
Understand that left page comes before right
Understand that we read print from left to right
Match spoken word to printed word (one to one correspondence)
Locate familiar words and use them to check own reading
Use the meaning of the text
Use language patterns (syntax)
Predict the story line and some vocabulary

Text characteristics

Natural language following children’s speech patterns
A short, simple, highly predictable text involving familiar objects and actions
Repetitive sentence structures including high frequency words
Illustrations that provide full and direct support for the text
Reasonably large print size with clear spaces between words
Fully punctuated text in the same position on each page




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