Conventions of print and sentence structure < Ar ais go dtí Reading Conventions of print and sentence structure Stage 1 Junior & Senior Infants Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 2 1st & 2nd Class Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 3 3rd & 4th Class Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Stage 4 Fifth and Sixth class Through appropriately engaging learning experiences, children should be able to Identify and use basic conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. in text. Gnásanna bunúsacha an chló a aithint agus a úsáid. Gnásanna an chló agus struchtúr abairte a úsáid mar chabhair chun brí a bhaint as téacs. (TF3, C1 + 2) Use conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. and sentence structure to help understand text. Comparáid a dhéanamh idir gnásanna cló i dtéacsanna atá níos casta agus anailís a dhéanamh orthu. Anailís a dhéanamh ar struchtúr abairte i dtéacsanna, lena n-áirítear abairtí simplí, abairtí comhshuite, agus abairtí casta. Comparáid a dhéanamh idir struchtúr abairte agus téacsanna i dteangacha éagsúla. (TF3, C3) Analyse and compare conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. in texts of increasing complexity. Analyse sentence structures, including simple, compound and complex sentences Complex sentences A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator (also known as a subordinate conjunction) such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which e.g. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. in texts. Compare sentence structures and texts in various languages. Comparáid a dhéanamh idir gnásanna cló i dtéacsanna atá níos casta agus anailís a dhéanamh orthu. Anailís a dhéanamh ar struchtúr abairte i dtéacsanna, lena n-áirítear abairtí simplí, abairtí comhshuite, agus abairtí casta. Comparáid a dhéanamh idir struchtúr abairte agus téacsanna i dteangacha éagsúla. Staidéar a dhéanamh ar struchtúr na habairte, idir abairtí simplí, abairtí comhshuite agus abairtí casta, i dtéacsanna. Comparáid a dhéanamh idir struchtúr abairte na Gaeilge agus struchtúr abairte i dteangacha eile. (TF3, C3 + 4) Progression steps The child… explores books and demonstrates book handling skills. The child… recognises and/or identifies that print such as signs, logos, pictures and words carry meaning. The child… understands that illustrations in books carry meaning. The child… identifies letters as being different from other symbols and reads left to right, top to bottom, page to page and identifies pictures in books. The child… demonstrates one-to-one correspondence between written and spoken words, identifies letters, words, sentences, capital letters and full-stops and points out cover, title and author in books. The child… uses correct word order when reading and adheres to fullstops to punctuate their reading. The child… uses spaces and question marks to punctuate and add intonation to reading. The child… uses quotation marks and exclamation marks to punctuate and add intonation to reading. The child… uses commas and paragraphs to punctuate and add intonation to reading. The child… identifies, names and uses a range of conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. in context (for example colon, semicolon, dash, apostrophe, hyphen etc.) examines and discusses various sentence structures (including simple, compound, and complex sentences Complex sentences A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator (also known as a subordinate conjunction) such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which e.g. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. ) and conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. in texts in English, Irish and other languages. The child… names, and explains a wide range of conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. and discusses their purpose. evaluates the impact of various sentence structures and conventions of print Conventions of print Conventions of print are accepted ways of presenting and organising written text so that this text is consistently and easily understood by all readers. The conventions include the following: print carries a message, left to right orientation of print, top to bottom orientation of print, return sweep, appropriate spacing, capitalisation, grammar and punctuation. Digital conventions include: scrolling, swiping left to right, top to bottom orientation of print. on a readers’ understanding of text. Support materials for teachers Reading - Léitheoireacht Example of student work Reading - Léitheoireacht Relevant across all strands Example of student work Relevant across all strands
