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Framework Strands: Oracy Literacy Intercultural Understanding Knowledge about Language Language learning strategies Y3 Y4

MFL Framework - Knowledge about language

Year 3

  • a. Identify specific sounds, phonemes and words. 8.12, 9.14
  • b. Recognise commonly used rhyming sounds. 10.11, 10.14
  • c. Imitate pronunciation of sounds. 8.12, 10.2
  • d. Hear main word classes. 10.14
  • e. Recognise question forms and negatives. 2.9
  • f. Recognise how sounds are represented in written form. 8.12, 9.14
  • g. Notice the spelling of familiar words. 10.10
  • h. Recognise that languages describe familiar things differently. 10.9
  • i. Recognise that many languages are spoken in the UK and across the world. 8.5
  • j. Recognise conventions of politeness. 2.3, 2.5, 5.12

Year 4

  • a. Reinforce and extend recognition of word classes and understand their function. 6.8, 10.14
  • b. Recognise and apply simple agreements, singular and plural. 3.9
  • c. Use question forms. 5.4
  • d. Recognise that texts in different languages will often have the same conventions of style and layout.Unit 1 flashcards showing question form
  • e. Apply phonic knowledge of the language to support reading and writing. 10.10, 10.11
  • f. Identify a different writing system. 8.12