Genre: Modern rhyme with a predictable structure and patterned language.

Learning Objectives: Word Recognition

Strand 5: Hear and say sounds in the order in which they occur.

Language Comprehension

Strand 8: Listen with enjoyment to stories, songs, rhymes and poems, sustain attentive listening and respond with relevant comments, questions or actions.


Genre: A modern realistic story with a familiar setting.

Learning Objectives:

Word Recognition

Strand 5: Read more challenging texts which can be decoded using their acquired phonic knowledge and skills, along with automatic recognition of high frequency words.

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters.



Genre: A realtic modern story with a limited variety of sentence structures.

Learning Objectives: Word Recognition

Strand 5: Recognize automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words.

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters.




Genre: A modern story with a familiar setting and predictable structure.

Learning Objectives:

Word Recognition

Strand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Use syntax and context when reading for meaning.


Genre: Modern realistic story with simple sentences.

Learning Objectives: Word Recognition

Strand 5: Hear and say sounds in the order in which they occur,

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words.


genre: An Aseop Fable

Learning Objectives: 

Word Recognition

Strand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Use syntax and context when reading for meaning.