Key Learning in Writing
Compostion
Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
- Say, write and punctuate simple and compound sentences using the connectives and, but and or.
- Use sentences with different forms: statement, question, command, exclamation.
- Use commas to separate items in a list.
- Use apostrophes for contracted forms e.g. don’t, can’t, wouldn’t, you’re, I’ll.
- Use subordination for time e.g. When we had finished our writing, we went out to play. We went out to play when we had finished our writing. Other time connectives: while, as, before, after.
- Use subordination for reason e.g.
I put my coat on because it was raining. Because it was raining, I put on my coat. Other reason connectives: so, if, then, for, unless. - Select, generate and effectively use verbs.
- Use past tense for narrative, recount (e.g. diary, newspaper report, biography) historical reports.
- Use present tense for non-chronological reports and persuasive adverts.
- Select, generate and effectively use nouns.
- Add suffixes ness and er to create nouns e.g. happiness, sadness, teacher, baker.
- Select, generate and effectively use adjectives.
- Add suffixes ful or less to create adjectives e.g. playful, careful, careless, hopeless.
- Use suffixes er and est to create adjectives e.g. faster, fastest, smaller, smallest.
Use suffix ly to turn adjectives into adverbs e.g. slowly, gently, carefully.
Composition
- Plan and discuss what to write about e.g. story mapping, collecting new vocabulary, key words and ideas.
- Use specific text type features to write for a range of audiences and purposes e.g. to instruct, inform, entertain, explain, discuss, persuade.
- Write about real and fictional events.
- Write simple poems based on models.
- Edit and improve their own writing in relation to audience and purpose.
- Evaluate their writing with adults and peers.
- Proofread to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Read aloud their writing with intonation to make the meaning clear.
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Spelling
- Segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many correctly.
- Learn new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known.
- Learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones.
- Learn to spell common exception words.
- Learn to spell more words with contracted forms.
- Distinguish between homophones and near-homophone.
- Add suffixes ness and er to create nouns e.g. happiness, sadness, teacher, baker.
- Select, generate and effectively use adjectives.
- Add suffixes ful or less to create adjectives e.g. playful, careful, careless, hopeless.
- Use suffixes er and est to create adjectives e.g. faster, fastest, smaller, smallest.
- Use suffix ly to turn adjectives into adverbs e.g. slowly, gently, carefully.
Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words and punctuation taught so far.
Handwriting
- Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another.
- Use upper case letters appropriately e.g. not always writing A as a capital, not using capitals within words.
- Write upper case letters of the correct size relative to lower case letters.
- Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters.