Vocabulary

listens to new words and phrases represented by text, modelled by another.

listens to new words and phrases represented by text, modelled by another, and uses them in emerging reading.

acquires new vocabulary listening to a variety of texts read aloud and repeats new words and phrases in their emerging reading.

acquires new vocabulary listening to new words and phrases modelled by the teacher and begins to demonstrate some understanding.

acquires new words and phrases from a variety of instructional and independent level texts and the teacher, and talks about their meaning. uses some new words in responses to texts.

uses a range of strategies to understand and discuss new words in texts and understands that the same idea can be conveyed using different phrases.

explores words that have the same meaning and words that have the same  sound Sound
The term ‘sound’ relates to the sound we make when we utter a letter or word, not to the letter in print. A letter may have more than one sound, such as the letter ‘a’ in was, a sound can be represented by more than one letter such as the sound /k/ in cat and walk. The word ship had three sounds /sh/, /i/, /p/, but has four letters ‘s’, ‘h’, ‘i’, ‘p’. Teachers should use the terms ‘sound’ and ‘letter’ accurately to help students clearly distinguish between the two items.  but a different meaning.

identifies and uses new words and phrases appropriately in a variety of contexts and begins to use dictionaries to find word meanings.

recognises some  synonyms Synonyms
A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word e.g. happy, joyful, elated.  ,  homonyms Homonyms
Homonyms are words that are pronounced but have different meanings e.g. to, too and two, heir and air, soot and suit.  ,  antonyms Antonyms
An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another word e.g. bad and good.  , prefixes, suffixes and  root words Root words
A root word is a form of a word after all affixes and grammatical inflections have been removed e.g. door, run, sad, build, hair. Many other words can be created using root words: inflected words: root + grammatical inflection e.g. doors, running, derived words: root + affix e.g. sadness, builder, compound words e.g. hairdresser.  .

identifies and uses new words and phrases appropriately in a variety of contexts and begins to use dictionaries to find word meanings.

recognises some  synonyms Synonyms
A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word e.g. happy, joyful, elated.  ,  homonyms Homonyms
Homonyms are words that are pronounced but have different meanings e.g. to, too and two, heir and air, soot and suit.  ,  antonyms Antonyms
An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another word e.g. bad and good.  , prefixes, suffixes and  root words Root words
A root word is a form of a word after all affixes and grammatical inflections have been removed e.g. door, run, sad, build, hair. Many other words can be created using root words: inflected words: root + grammatical inflection e.g. doors, running, derived words: root + affix e.g. sadness, builder, compound words e.g. hairdresser.  .

uses thesauruses and other references to find and use word meanings across the curriculum.

identifies and explains  synonyms Synonyms
A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word e.g. happy, joyful, elated.  ,  homonyms Homonyms
Homonyms are words that are pronounced but have different meanings e.g. to, too and two, heir and air, soot and suit.  ,  antonyms Antonyms
An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another word e.g. bad and good.  , prefixes, suffixes, and  root words Root words
A root word is a form of a word after all affixes and grammatical inflections have been removed e.g. door, run, sad, build, hair. Many other words can be created using root words: inflected words: root + grammatical inflection e.g. doors, running, derived words: root + affix e.g. sadness, builder, compound words e.g. hairdresser.  found in texts.

identifies and uses a variety of strategies to understand words in texts.