The Education (Curriculum Minimum Content) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Progression

As pupils progress through the Foundation Stage they should be enabled to:

• write without prompting and make decisions about how and what they will write;

• use rhymes, poems and patterned stories as models for structuring their own writing;

• write in a range of genres with teacher guidance;

• begin to problem-solve how to write using sound-symbol correspondence as the first strategy;

• begin to show evidence of sequence in recount and instructions;

• use a wide range of vocabulary in their writing;

• begin to demarcate sentences;

• begin to use capital letters for the pronoun ‘I’, for names and at the start of a sentence;

• show increased control over formation of lower and upper-case letters, size and spacing.