Norwegian subject curriculum (NOR1-04)

Competence aims after Year 2

Oral texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• play, improvise and experiment with rhyme, rhythm, phonological sounds and meaning-bearing elements
• express one's own feelings and opinions
• talk fluently about events and experiences
• talk about how the choice of words, the use of one's voice and intonation create different meaning in a text
• listen and give response to others in conversations, during presentations and when reading out loud
• talk about characters and plots in fairytales and stories

Written texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between speech sound and letter and between spoken language and written language
• use the sounds of letters to create words
• read upper and lower case printed letters
• read simple texts with coherence and understanding
• use simple strategies for reading comprehension
• use own knowledge and experience to understand and comment on the content of texts they read
• use letters and experiment with words, in both handwriting and when using a keyboard
• use a word processor to create texts
• find fiction and factual books for one's own reading in the library

Composite texts

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• work creatively by drawing and writing in connection with reading
• express one's own experiences of texts through words, drawings, pictures, music and movements
• talk about how words and pictures interact in picture books and other picture media

Language and culture

The aims of the training are to enable the apprentice to

• discuss content and form in old and new songs, nursery rhymes and poems
• express how we understand some familiar proverbs and idioms and explain the origin of common words and expressions