Year 1 targets for dd3 - help?

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Her reading target for the summer term says 'to be able to predict how a story will turn out using clues from the earlier part of the story'

Eh?? She's not psychic! And why is this desirable? Surely when you read a book you dont' WANT to know how it turns out? Obviously I am misunderstanding this.

Also, her spelling target says 'to be able to accurately spell familiar words' What are the familiar words they should know at the end of year 1?

Also, the fact that she has brought this home seems to suggest we need to be doing it with her at home, rather than the teacher doing it in class?

Thanks!

i have found a list of high frequency words which I presume are the 'familiar' words referred to.

Still totally not sure about the prediction thing!

I suspect the targets are for you support at home in conjunction with work done at school iyswim.

Does your DD bring home spelling sheets - this will give you an idea of the words she is expected to spell?

Re the predicting thing. If the story starts "A beautiful princess lived in a castle . She was very unhappy because she was never allowed to go outside because of the terrible dragon that lived nearby." What do you think might happen next? Potentially the princess will become reconciled to her fate and start up a thriving internet business. But it's more likely that she'll make friends with the dragon and find out that he is not so frightening after all ... or that a brave knight will come on the scene and slay the dragon ... There will probably be clues in the story as to which way it might go. And probably your DD is familiar with fairy stories and other books and has an inkling of how these stories normally go (Of course when she's more advanced she'll find that she'll expect the story to go one way and actually it will go a different way.)

If you have a direct question about what you're being asked to do you should ask the teacher. Your suspicion about high frequency words sounds reasonable. But if her teacher wants her to learn the words she should supply a list. She can't expect you to just know what the words are. I suspect that either some explanation is getting lost between the teacher and you or you've got a substandard teacher. Either way you should talk to her and find out what it is that she wants.

As for predicting stories, I doubt that the teacher really wants your daughter to guess the end, but that she wants all of her children to know about beginnings, middles and ends of stories. My guess is that she wants her children to imagine story endings, of course it doesn't matter if what the child guesses isn't anything like the real ending, it's just exercising the child's imagination.

I have a y1 ds and when we read simple stories like school reading scheme books he often tries to predict the end of the story. I'm not a teacher so might be wrong but ds will make predictions based on picture clues and what he knows about the characters.
Eg in Ort books mum will be cross/the children will find the missing object /the magic key will start to glow.

Are the high frequency words for them to read or to spell? or both maybe

As for picture clues you might see things like someone picking up the wrong jumper which will mean the real owner has to find it.

I think the point is that it's about using imagination.

Hi Rosettes:

Hopefully someone who teaches Y1 or KS1 will be along shortly - but in the meantime...

Welcome to the foreign language that teachers speak. I am not completely fluent but I'll attempt to translate having been there and done that.

Lancashire Primary has guides for reading in various years here which can help give you a better idea on what else is being taught besides the basic mechanics of reading - www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/literacy/index.php?category_id=399 - just scroll down and select the year.

Predicting the end of a story....
Our school was also big on this or 'what happens next' - the idea is to use all the clues (visual and textual) from the story to help predict what might happen.

So for example, you may have already read that the wolf has eaten grandma and is now in her bed in her cap and nightdress and glasses. Little Red Riding Hood has just walked past a woodman with an axe and said good morning and then knocked on the door of her grandmother's cottage - WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

The clues from the text, the familiarity of the story, etc... should all work together to allow the child to make a good guess at what will happen next.
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Familiar words or High Frequency Words:
These are the most commonly spoken/ written words in English. Many a child just has to learn because sounding out the word won't make sense (e.g. said, she, he, etc...)

Info on high frequency words here:

first 100 High Frequency Word list here: www.highfrequencywords.org/first-100-high-frequency-word-lists.html

next 200 high frequency word list here:
www.highfrequencywords.org/next-200-high-frequency-word-lists.html

www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/hfw/hfw.htm - the upper box has the lists (you want KS1 high frequency words - later you'll want Y4/Y5 medium frequency words and then further medium frequency words) and interactive hangman games are fun.

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The bringing them home to you is meant to demonstrate that the child and parent are aware of the literacy target DC is working toward at school. (OFSTED is big on this apparently) One could query why they've sent this to you at home, without clear explanation, but as the poem goes...ours isn't to reason why....

The prediction is not about getting it right, but about being able to explain why she thinks that will be what happens.

"Familiar" words for yr 1:

www.highfrequencywords.org/first-100-high-frequency-word-lists.html

Predicting the end of a story is something that chn should be able to do for level 1 according to the government. These are helpful: www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/-Child-Speak-APP-Reading-Bookmarks-6089240/

It's to do with understanding common story conventions, as redskyatnight said.

I'm sure your class teacher would be happy to go into more detail if you call up or go in and visit.