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recognising simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry discussing and clarifying the meaning of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary checking the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading making inferences on the basis of what is said and done answering and asking questions predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far explaining and discussing their understanding
Writing Children will develop the skills necessary to become effective writers in four key areas: 1. Spelling Children will continue to learn to spell by: • sounding out unknown words using phonic skills and knowledge • learning new ways of spelling words with similar sounds, e.g. homophones such as “where” and “wear” • learning to spell high frequency, common exception words (for example; again, beautiful, because)•adding suffixes to longer words including –ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly (for example; experiment, happiness, wonderful, listless, sadly) 2. Handwriting Children will continue to join their handwriting using the continuous cursive font (see Year 1 information above). They will: • form lower case letters of the correct size relative to one another • write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another • use accurate spacing between words. 3. Composition Children will develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by: • writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional) • writing about real events • writing poetry • writing for different purposes • planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about • writing down ideas and key words, including new vocabulary • encapsulating what they are going to say, sentence by sentence. • evaluating their writing • re-reading to check their writing makes sense • proof reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. 4. Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Children will develop their ability to write in grammatically accurate sentences. They will: • learn how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes • learn to write different types of sentences such as statements, questions, exclamations and commands • use the past and present tense correctly • use subordination (when, if, that, because) and coordination (or, and, but).
