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Comhairliúchán ar Churaclam na Bunscoile oscailte

Comhairliúchán ar Churaclam na Bunscoile oscailte

Foghlaim Tuilleadh

Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

The child…

explores, investigates and experiments with the use of marks and shapes.

The child…

uses marks and shapes to share a personal experience.

The child…

uses language from their personal experiences and uses it playfully and imaginatively in texts created with the teacher as scribe.

The child…

uses new vocabulary and phrases from texts read and uses language playfully and imaginatively in texts created through shared writing with the teacher.

The child…

uses language from their personal experiences, texts read and the environment and uses language playfully and imaginatively in texts created independently.

The child…

uses language removed from their personal experience and encountered when creating texts and uses this language imaginatively in their own texts.

The child…

uses topic-specific words and phrases to share an idea in a particular way, drawing on a range of experiences and texts, and begins to add detail using adjectives and adverbs. 

The child…

intentionally uses vocabulary to convey a specific meaning, mood, feeling using creative and imaginative language, drawing on a range of experiences and texts.

The child…

selects vocabulary from a range of sources and uses it to extend ideas, add more detail and create an effect, mood or image, and begins to use figurative language so that a text has a particular impact on a reader.

The child…

discusses strategies used to learn and acquire vocabulary for use in creating text.

discusses strategies used to source vocabulary (including subject specific vocabulary) from a range of sources to create fictional/non-fictional texts.

identifies, explains, and uses creative,  Aesthetic
The aesthetic dimension of language relates to the use of language imaginatively, creatively and artistically.
 , and imaginative language to create texts and discusses the purpose of using these aspects of language in their texts.

The child…

assesses strategies to source vocabulary and to learn and acquire vocabulary for use in creating text.

recognises and appreciates differences between subjective and objective language found in various genres when selecting vocabulary to create text.

recognises vocabulary which portrays prejudice, stereotyping, or bias and is mindful of this when creating text.

Linguistic Diversity-Multilingual City

Example of student work

Cuireadh leis an ngearrthaisce é go rathúil.