It covers the following strands and sub-strands:
- Speaking
- Use of a polite language
- Take pleasure in appreciating others when need arises.
- Audience awareness
- Demonstrate awareness of own voice in and out of class.
- Speak clearly when talking to others in and out of class.
- Speak loudly enough for the audience to hear in school and at home.
- Experience pleasure in varying own voice when communicating with others.
- Passing information
- Convey verbal messages effectively to the teacher and to other learners.
- Use relevant vocabulary to pass verbal information.
- Enjoy passing verbal messages to the teacher and other learners.
- Naming
- Name objects, people, animals, and colours in the immediate environment.
- Identify vocabularies and how to use them in the conversation.
- Articulation of letter sounds
- Demonstrate awareness of letter-sound.
- Articulate vowels correctly in and out of school.
- Articulate consonants correctly in and out of school.
- Take pleasure in articulating vowels and consonants in and out of school.
- Use of a polite language
- Reading
- Book handling
- Hold a book top side up in and out of school.
- Demonstrate ability to turn pages from right to left when opening a page.
- Take pleasure in book handling and storage activities in and out of school.
- Reading readiness skills
- Demonstrate left-right eye orientation when reading.
- Demonstrate top-down orientation skills when reading.
- Enjoy participating in pre-reading activities.
- Print awareness
- Talk about pictures in and out of school.
- Show interest in reading in and out of school.
- Book handling


