Knowledge, skills and understanding

Listening

This product can be used to practise listening, understanding and responding to others, identifying and responding to sound patterns in language inlcuding alliteration, rhyme, word play.

Speaking

It can also be used to practise telling stories, real and imagined as well as reading aloud and reciting

Listening

Children can listen to adults giving detailed explanations and presentations [for example reading aloud]

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Reading strategies

This product can be used to practise reading with fluency, accuracy, understanding and enjoyment:

Word recognition and graphic knowledge

This product can be used to practise used to teach phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge to decode and encode words, including the linking of sound and letter patterns, exploring rhyme, alliteration and other sound patterns

Understanding text

This product can be used to practise using grammatical understanding and knowledge of the content and context of texts to decipher new words, confirm or check meaning and to use knowledge of book conventions, structure, sequence and presentational devices

Reading for information

This product can be used to practise using the organisational features of non-fiction texts, including captions, illustrations, contents, index and chapters to find information

Literature

This product can be used to develop understanding poetry, pupils can be taught to identify patterns of rhythm, rhyme and sounds in poems and their effects.

This product can be used to learn about stories and poems from different cultures, stories and poems that are challenging in terms of length or vocabulary and texts where the use of language benefits from being read aloud and reread.

Non-fiction and non-literary texts

This product can be used to make use of print and ICT-based information texts, including those with continuous text and relevant illustrations

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Life processes

This product can be used to explore the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive and that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce and also to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment.

Humans and other animals

This product can be used to explore the fact that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive, that taking exercise and eating the right types and amounts of food help humans to keep healthy, how to treat animals with care and sensitivity, that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults and about the senses that enable humans and other animals to be aware of the world around them.

Variation and classification

This product can be used to practise grouping living things according to observable similarities and differences.

This product can be used to help pupils learn about people's lives and lifestyles; significant men, women, children and events from the recent and more distant past, including those from both Britain and the wider world. They can listen and respond to these stories and use sources of information to help them ask and answer questions. They can also learn about how the past is different from the present.

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Chronological understanding

This product can be used to practise common words and phrases relating to the passing of time [including, before, after, a long time ago, past].

Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past

This product can be used to identify differences between ways of life at different times.

Historical enquiry

This product can be used to practise how to find out about the past from a range of sources of information [such as stories, eye-witness accounts, pictures and photographs, historic buildings and the use of ICT-based sources]

This product can be used to learn about the lives of significant men, women and children drawn from the history of Britain and the wider world and past events from the history of Britain and the wider world [for example, events that are commemorated by Muslims worldwide].

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Finding things out

This product can be used to practise:

gathering information from a variety of sources [for example, people, books and databases]
entering and storing information in a variety of forms [for example, storing information in a prepared database, saving work]
retrieving information that has been stored [for example, using a CD-ROM, loading saved work].

This product can be used to learn about developing as individuals and contributing as members of their communities, building on their experiences. This product can help children learn the basic rules and skills for keeping themselves healthy and safe and for behaving well and taking some responsibility for themselves and their environment, to learn about their own and other people's feelings and to become aware of views, needs and rights of other children and older people.

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of their abilities

This product can be used to recognise what children like and dislike, about what is fair and unfair, and what is right and wrong

Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people

This product can be used to learn that family and friends should care for each other

This product can be used to practise one principal religion besides christianity; to learn about different beliefs about God and the world, to respond to a range of stories, to learn to recognise that beliefs are expressed in a variety of ways and to use specialist vocabulary.

It can also help to increase understanding of the importance and value of religion and beliefs, especially for other children and their families, develop a sense of wonder about the world using imagination and developing a sense of belonging.

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Learning about religion

This product can be used to explore a range of religious stories and sacred writings and talk about their meanings

Themes

This product can be used to learn about what people believe about God, humanity and the natural world

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Literature

This product can be used to develop understanding and appreciation of literary texts, by reading stories and poems aloud.

Literature

This product can be used to learn about texts drawn from different of cultures and traditions

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Life processes

This product can be used to learn that the life processes common to humans and other animals include nutrition, movement, growth and reproduction.

Humans and other animals

Growth and reproduction

This product can be used to learn about the main stages of the human life cycle.

Living things in their environment

This product can be used to learn about about ways in which living things and the environment need protection