Writing
- Fiction
- Write a full sentence and check it independently.
- Discuss a variety of stories in depth and act them out
- Re-write/imitate, a well-known story.
- Extend sentences to include WOW words.
- Compare, contrast and predict story themes.
- Give opinions on stories.
- Change/innovate a well-known story.
- Retell a story using different props and story mapping ideas.
- Write/imagine a simple story.
- Non-fiction
- Write a variety of non-fiction texts – a recount, a list, an invitation, a card
- Recite, perform and re-write poems.
- Read, follow and write simple instructions.
- Use a dictionary.
- Ask and write questions.
- Talk about Information books and help to create a class book.
- Compare different poems and rhymes.
- Extend a written recount, a simple poem and a letter.
Phonics
- Secure knowledge of all single sounds
- Read and write CVC words independently
- Introduce double sounds: ll, ss, zz ff, qu, ck and th, sh and ch for use in reading and writing
- Blending-squeezing sounds to read
- Segmenting-stretching sounds to spell
- Introduce the next set of digraphs-double sounds for reading and writing
- Secure knowledge of digraphs learnt and use in CVCC and CCVC words (C-consonant, V-vowel)
Reading
- Read on sight ‘Tricky Words’ according to the UK National Curriculum – (Phase 2 and 3)
- Read on sight ‘High Frequency Words’ according to the UK National Curriculum – (Phase 2 and 3)