Using Phonics
• Adding endings and beginnings
• Blending consonants
• Working with ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘ea’, ‘oo’ and ‘ee’
• Vowels
• Silent letters
• Syllable linking
• Compound words
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Vowel sounds and ‘r’
• Checking spelling
• Triple blends and syllables
• Silent letters
• Words with ‘gue’ or ‘que’
• Soft and hard sounds
• Prefixes and suffixes |
Punctuation
• What are sentences?
• Capital letters and full stops
• Beginnings and endings
• Letters and emails
• Question and exclamation marks
• Headlines, commas and clauses
• The apostrophe
• Plurals and apostrophes
• Direct, indirect and reported speech
• Speech marks and other punctuation
• Writing a report
• Presenting speech in different ways
• The colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash and brackets |
Developing Writing
• Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and conjunctions
• Creating characters
• Extending sentences and adding further detail
• Reordering sentences and sentence variation
• Planning writing for different purposes
• Using connectives
• Creating images
• Style and purpose in text
• Creating, writing and linking paragraphs
• Story planning
• A story model and the story wheel
• Endings and timelines of events
• Planning and writing a recount
• Writing in sequence
• The features of informational texts
• Drafting your work
• Crafting a poem |
Reading for Meaning
• Features of informational text
• Scanning and summarising skills
• Differences between facts and opinion
• Analysing persuasive text
• Topic sentences
• The language of advertisements
• Creating instructional texts
• Writing and reading instructions
• Explanatory text and their purpose
• Finding information
• Recounts and biography
• Getting the order right
• Film reviews and finding evidence
• Brainstorming ideas
• Developing an argument
• Making quick notes
• Connectives
• What is a narrative?
• What do we know and what can you guess from reading text?
• Playscripts and poetry |
