English is the Key Learning Area where students develop knowledge, skills and understandings about English language and literature. The students will be actively engaged in the development of skills through:

This term in English, Year One  will be engaging in the following strands:

With a focus on endangered animals, Students will be introduced to a range of factual / information texts about endangered animals. 

Factual / Information texts contain information that is true / correct. 

These texts will contain facts about  animals and the world we live in. 

The factual texts we will read and view will contain -                                                                                            

* a contents page                                 

* photos   

* maps                                        

* index                                               

* factual Information

Students will be introduced and supported to create information texts about the endangered animal focused on each week in modelled, joint construction and independent writing episodes. 

They will learn to collect information, plan and compose their texts. 

Students will continue to develop their understanding of how a sentence is formed and how to link  

sentences to create an information text. 

Students  will engage in phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling and grammar, and during these sessions they will continue to develop their skills.

Students will also continue to consolidate their use of reading cues and knowledge of punctuation to enhance fluency and understanding of the text when reading.