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English
Autumn Term
Speaking and Listening
- Develop confidence to talk in whole class discussions
- Speak clearly and audibly
- Learn to listen to others without interrupting
- Develop and sustain concentration when listening to others
Reading
- Read an increasing number of high frequency words
- Begin to be aware of the need to use expression when reading
- Develop a fluent style of reading
- Read with increasing confidence
Writing
- Write a simple sentence with increasing independence
- Use a try it out book to practise unknown words
- Begin to use a simple word mat to find common words
- Capital letters to start a sentence and a full to stop to end it
- Plan an instructional text and publish it in the form of a simple poster
Handwriting
- Pencil grip
- A good sitting position for writing
- Lower case letters
- Ascenders and descenders
- Good presentation
Grammar
- Sentences
- Nouns and pronouns
- The alphabet
- Singular and plural words
Phonics / Spellings
- Revise individual letter sounds
- Learn the word vowel and what the five vowels are
- Begin to learn to read and write phonics taught in the lesson
Homework
- Spellings will be sent home on a weekly basis on a worksheet
- Reading books will be sent home regularly through the week
- We suggest some reading at home each day, this could be shared reading, parent reading to child, discussing the contents/pictures, child reading from school book or own book from home
Spring Term
Speaking and Listening
- Develop confidence to speak clearly in whole class discussions
- Learn to listen to others
- Develop and sustain concentration
- Respond with increasing appropriateness to what others say
Reading
- An increasing number of high frequency words
- Decoding new words
- Awareness of punctuation and expression when reading
- Develop a fluent, confident style of reading
Writing
- Write a sentence with increasing independence
- Use a try it out book to practise unknown words
- Use a simple word mat to find common words
- Capital letters, full stops and a wider vocabulary when writing
- Recognise the main elements that shape different texts
- Write chronological texts using simple structures
- Distinguish fiction and non fiction texts
- Convey information and ideas in simple non-narrative forms
Handwriting
- Develop a comfortable and efficient pencil grip and good sitting position
- Begin to join letters – linked to weekly phonics – and present work neatly
- Practice writing the high frequency words introduced in the weekly spellings
Grammar
- Begin to use a dictionary
- Revise proper and common nouns and pronouns
- Introduce the verb
- Learn about the present, past and future tenses and when to use them
Phonics / Spellings
- Consolidate silent e rule
- Introduce vowel diagraphs
- Learn five or ten spellings from the phonic scheme – to be sent home each week on a spelling practice sheet and tested at the end of the week
Summer Term
Speaking and Listening
- Listen carefully and respond to others appropriately
- Focus on main points when speaking to a group or class
- Use a growing vocabulary
Reading
- Read an increasing number of high frequency words
- Use a range of strategies for decoding new words
- Read with a growing awareness of punctuation
- Read with increasing expression and intonation
- Begin to develop the skill of prediction
- Answer questions about what has been read
Writing
- Extend the number of sentences when writing
- Use known phonics to spell new words
- Use capital letters to start a sentence and a full to stop to end it
- Follow written instructions
- Write instructions following the accepted layout
- Consider the features of fantasy stories
- Plan a story and organise ideas into a logical structure
- Explore familiar themes and characters through improvisation and role play
Handwriting
- Begin to join letters
- Use the joins taught in formal handwriting lessons in other writing
- Practise writing high frequency words Write with clearly defined ascenders and descenders
- Write letters of a uniform size
Grammar
- Recognise a question mark and what it means
- Recognise speech marks and what they mean
- Develop the ability to recognise compound words
- Develop knowledge of the alphabet and ability to put words in alphabetical order
- Revisit and revise verbs
- Develop understanding of adverbs
- Develop understanding of antonyms
Phonics / Spellings
- Learn at least ten spellings linked to The Jolly Phonics spelling/phonics scheme – to be sent home each week on a spelling practice sheet
- All ten spellings to be tested weekly
- Complete work in class to consolidate phonic knowledge
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