Level 1
Listening and speaking
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- express their own feelings and opinions
- listen to, understand and talk about the content of oral narratives and other texts
- speak coherently about their experiences related to their school day, their family and their community
- understand and use numbers in practical situations
Reading and writing
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- recognize numbers and the letters or characters of their mother tongue
- relate letters to sounds and bring the sounds together to form words, or use characters
- read adapted texts fluently and coherently
- understand and fill out simple forms with personal information
- write their own texts, digitally and in functional handwriting
- employ simple strategies for reading comprehension
- find books or digital texts in their mother tongue
Language learning
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- experiment with speech sounds, words and expressions, rhymes and jingles
- relate personal experiences by means of words, drawings, pictures, music and movement
- talk about how words and pictures work together in a given text
- understand and reflect on the relationship between speech and written language
- describe and assess their own language learning work
Language and culture
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- talk about the content of fairy tales, songs or poems
- talk about and summarize the gist of puzzles, jokes or other humorous texts
- talk about persons and actions in texts about everyday life, stories or other relevant literature
Level 2
Listening and speaking
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- give expression to their own thoughts, feelings and experiences
- listen to others and respond to other people’s stories, descriptions and messages
- converse with and pose questions to their fellow pupils about technical topics and everyday events
- talk about the content of films, computer games, literary texts and plays
- explain and use technical words and concepts
Reading and writing
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- read different types of text with an understanding of the content
- read and understand simple tables and graphic presentations
- repeat, in their own words, information from school texts
- structure their own texts with headings, an introduction and a conclusion
- write coherent texts, stories and letters
- conduct information searches and create, store and retrieve texts with the aid of digital tools
- use dictionaries and digital aids
Language learning
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- give examples of linguistic structures from their mother tongue and compare these with Norwegian
- talk about how one expresses oneself in a variety of social contexts
- master some strategies for understanding and learning new words and concepts
- give examples of communication strategies
- use their own experiences to talk about differences and similarities between their mother tongue and Norwegian
- describe and assess their progress in learning their mother tongue
Language and culture
The aims of the studies are to enable students to
- talk about lifestyles, traditions, social conventions and customs, and about the role that language plays in each of these
- explain how the choice of words, the use of the voice and body language may all express different attitudes
- talk about how various conventions for showing politeness are used