Curriculum for Excellence

Using knowledge about language

The experiences and outcomes for modern languages are described at second, third and fourth levels. Schools and centres which implement an earlier start should work towards the outcomes described at second level, providing children with stimulating opportunities for early achievement of some or all of the second level outcomes and, in the longer-term opportunities for depth and breadth of learning.
Early First Second Third Fourth
    I can understand how a bilingual dictionary works and use it with support.
MLAN 2-11a
 I can use a bilingual dictionary independently to help me understand new language.
MLAN 3-11a
 I can use my knowledge about language and other strategies to help me to understand and analyse more detailed texts, containing some unfamiliar language and more complex structures.
MLAN 4-11a
    I can make comparisons and explore connections between spelling patterns in English and the language I am learning.
MLAN 2-11b
 I can recognise features of words in the language I am learning and use them to make sense of vocabulary and of the connections between words.
MLAN 3-11b
  
    I experiment with new language, working out the meaning of words and phrases using vocabulary I have learned so far.
MLAN 2-11c
    
    I can recognise and comment on other features of my own language which help to make sense of words in the language I am learning.
MLAN 2-11d
    
 
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