English Language and Literacy | Foundation
Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations
• listening to, remembering and following simple instructions
• sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps
• listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
• participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language
• participating in class, group and pair discussions about shared experiences including shared texts
• asking and answering questions to clarify understanding
• Students learn to retell narrative texts in the proper sequence.