Progression - Extending language

The Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages sets out a clear structure for progression over four years. Expectations and Outcomes describe what most children should be able to do by the end of the year.

The Learning Objectives for each of the three core strands, Oracy, Literacy and Intercultural Understanding show how to plan the next steps in a cohesive programme of learning. The two cross-cutting strands of Knowledge about Language and Language Learning Strategies underpin the core strands and help children to develop language learning skills for life.

Dash game

This class has been working on a theme of descriptions of pictures, building sentences and using adjectival agreements in French. Here they play a team game in which they form sentences using single words on cards.

Each child receives a word card. The teacher calls out sentences and as she does so children must decide whether their word is in the sentence which she calls out. If it is, they go out to the front and arrange themselves in the order of the words in the sentence. The first team to build the sentence correctly wins a point.