Longforgan Primary Literacy Programme – Listening and Talking
Organiser/ Experiences and
Early Developing
Early Level
Early Consolidating
Enjoyment and Choice -organizer
Within a motivating and challenging
environment, developing an awareness
of the relevance of texts in my life
Enjoyment and Choice
I can
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Recognise familiar sounds
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Explore and play with patterns and sounds in
language and use what I learn.
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Explore and choose stories.
Share my ideas in different ways.
Enjoyment and Choice
I can
Enjoyment and Choice
I can
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Tools for listening and Talking
Tools for listening and Talking
 Take turns when I am talking
 I understand when to talk and when to listen
 Listen carefully to remember a message.
Outcomes
Enjoyment and Choice-E & Os
I enjoy exploring and playing with the
patterns and sounds of language, and can
use what I learn
Early Secure – apply what he/she has
learned in new and unfamiliar situations
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Remember and recite familiar rhymes and
poems
Hear and repeat rhyming words.
Listen to texts or watch programmes and share
my likes and dislikes.
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Hear and repeat letter combinations at the
beginning, middle and end of words.
Explore events and characters in stories and
other texts.
I enjoy exploring and choosing stories
and other texts to watch, read or listen to,
and can share my likes and dislikes.
I enjoy exploring events and characters
in stories and other texts, sharing my
thoughts in different ways.
Tools for listening sand talking
Organizer
To help me when interacting or
presenting within and beyond my place
of learning
Tools for listening and Talking –E
&Os
As I listen and talk in different
situations, I am learning to take turns and
am developing my awareness of when to
talk and when to listen.
 Use appropriate listening behaviour, i.e. turns to
face the speaker, watches and reacts.
 Take turns when I am talking
 I understand when to talk and when to listen
Tools for listening and Talking
 Listen, watch and talk for a variety of purposes,
context and audiences.
 Listen and respond by answering questions in pair
/ group / class situations. E.g. social play, story
time
 Listen carefully in order to respond
appropriately to the group discussion
Longforgan Primary Literacy Programme – Listening and Talking
Organiser/ Experiences and Outcomes
Early Developing
Early Level
Early Consolidating
Finding and using information –
organizer
When listening to, watching and talking
about texts with increasingly complex
ideas, structures and specialist vocabulary
Finding and using information – Es&Os
I listen or watch for useful or interesting
information and I use this to make choices
or learn new things.
I can:
Finding and using information
 Listen or watch for information and use this to
make choices or learn new things.
I can:
Finding and using information
 Listen or watch for information and use this to
make choices or learn new things.
I can:
Finding and using information
 Listen or watch for information and use this to
make choices or learn new things.
Understanding, analyzing and evaluating
Understanding, analyzing and evaluating
Understanding, analyzing and evaluating
 Ask questions to understand stories and other
texts.
 Link what I am learning with what I already
know.
Early Secure – apply what he/she has
learned in new and unfamiliar situations
Understanding, analyzing and
evaluating – organizer
Investigating and/ or appreciating texts
with increasingly complex ideas, structures
and specialist vocabulary for different
purposes
Understanding, analyzing and
evaluating – Es &Os
To help me understand stories and other
texts, I ask questions and link what I am
learning with what I already know.
Creating texts- organizer
Applying the elements others use to create
different types of short and extended texts
with increasingly complex ideas, structures
and vocabulary
Creating texts –E’s & Os
Within real and imaginary situations, I
share experiences and feelings, ideas and
information in a way that communicates
my message
I enjoy exploring events and characters in
stories and other texts and I use what I
learn to invent my own, sharing these with
others in imaginative
As I listen and take part in conversations
and discussions, I discover new words
and phrases which I use to help me express
my ideas, thoughts and feelings
 Ask questions to understand stories and other texts.
Creating texts
I can:
 Listen to a simple story or text and demonstrate
an understanding of the main ideas.
 Retell a sequence of events
 Share experiences and feelings.
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Creating texts
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Explore events and characters in stories and
other texts.
Listen to and retell the main points of a story.
Discover new words and phrases which I use to
help me express my ideas thoughts and feeling.
Share ideas and information in a way that
communicates my message.
Creating texts
 Invent my own characters and share these with
others in imaginative ways.
 Orally compose/invent stories etc