English

Autumn term

Speaking and Listening

  • Take turns in speaking
  • Listen to others and comment
  • Ask questions
  • Identify and respond to sound patterns in language
  • Use and remember some main features of spoken standard English

Reading

  • Read aloud for fluency, expression and understanding
  • Comprehension
  • Re-read, learn and recite favourite poems

Writing

  • Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry

Handwriting

  • Diagonal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ai, ar, un
  • Horizontal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ou, vi, wi
  • Diagonal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ab, ul, it
  • Horizontal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ol, wh, ot

Grammar

  • Text and print marks
  • Punctuation and capital letters
  • Sentences using a 5 point checklist
  • Use of time
  • Sequences, commas and question marks
  • Jolly Phonics spelling programme

Homework

  • Spelling lists will be sent home each Monday and tested on the following Friday
  • A spelling activity sheet will be sent home on a weekly basis
  • We suggest children do some reading 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. Please note in the home/school book if your child has read their school book so that we can change it.

Spring Term

Speaking and Listening

  • Take turns in speaking
  • Listen to others and comment
  • Ask questions
  • Identify and respond to sound patterns in language
  • Use and remember some main features of spoken standard English

Reading

  • Read aloud for fluency, expression and understanding
  • Comprehension
  • Re-read, learn and recite favourite poems

Writing

  • Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry

Handwriting

  • Diagonal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ai, ar, un
  • Horizontal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ou, vi, wi
  • Diagonal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ab, ul, it
  • Horizontal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ol, wh, ot

Grammar

  • Text and print marks
  • Punctuation and capital letters
  • Sentences using a 5 point checklist
  • Use of time
  • Sequences, commas and question marks
  • Jolly Phonics spelling programme

Homework

Spelling lists will be sent home each Monday and tested on the following Friday

  • A spelling activity sheet will be sent home on a weekly basis
  • We suggest children do some reading 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. Please note in the home/school book if your child has read their school book so that we can change it.

Summer Term

Speaking and Listening

  • Describe events and experiences, focusing on the main points and including relevant detail
  • Show an awareness and understanding of topical issues and events, voice opinions and give reasons for opinions and actions
  • Sustain concentration and ask questions to clarify meaning during lessons and circle time
  • Extend ideas in the light of discussion

Reading

  • Reinforce and apply skills through shared and guided reading of fiction, non-fiction and poetry
  • Discuss and compare story themes, settings and characters
  • Predict story endings and incidents
  • Develop comprehension skills and inferential reasoning
  • Continue to extend the children’s vocabulary

Writing

  • The children will write sustained stories, using knowledge of story elements e.g. narrative, settings, characteristics, dialogue and the language of story
  • We will use humorous verse as a structure for children to write their own verse by adaptation, mimicry or substitution
  • The children will use a variety of non-fiction texts in relation to a short project (for example “Space”)
  • Investigate different ways of presenting factual information

Handwriting

We shall continue to work on the 4 basic handwriting joins

Phonics and spelling

  • We follow the Jolly Phonics spelling programme
  • We will also study dictionary skills

Grammar

The children will be taught to:

  • Identify the use of speech in texts and begin to use speech marks
  • Read with intonation and expression appropriate to the grammar and punctuation
  • Use the standard forms of verbs in speaking and writing, and to use the past tense consistently in narration
  • Turn statements into questions using a range of “wh” words
  • Compare forms of questions
  • Proofread text
  • Write extended sentences using conjunctions
  • Use suffixes and prefixes