Reading

• Use phonic knowledge to read new words.
• Read words with contractions (e.g.: can’t, didn’t).
• Read words ending in -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est .
• Link their reading to their own experiences.
• Predict what a character might do next.
• Re-read books to build up fluency and confidence.
• Re-read to check that what they are reading makes sense.
• Recognise and join in with repeated words and phrases.
• Can pick out the title from other text.
• Make inferences about how a character feels based on what they say and do.
• Can retell known stories, traditional tales and fairy stories.
• Know the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

Writing

• Say sentences out loud before writing.
• Write clearly demarcated sentences using capital letters and full stops.
• Use adjectives to describe size and colour.
• Use story language to start and end stories (e.g.; ‘Once upon a time’ ‘Happily ever after’).
• Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. and, so, but).
• Use a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and ‘I’.
• Use question marks and exclamation mark.
• Write a sequence of sentences to form a short story.
• Form lower case letters, capital letters and the digits 0-9 correctly.

Mathematics

• Count to and across 100, forwards & backwards from any number.
• Read and write numbers to 100 in numerals.
• Say 1 more/1 less of any number up to 100.
• Count forwards and backwards in twos, fives and tens from 0.
• Use the language of equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
• Use bonds and subtraction facts to 20. •Add & subtract 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero.
• Recall and use doubling facts for numbers up to double 10, halving facts for numbers up to half of 20.
• Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, months of the year.
• Recognise and know the value of different denominations of all coins and notes.
• Tell time to the hour & at half past.