Reading

• Comment on the way characters relate to one another.
• Know which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
• Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.
• Recognise inverted commas
• • plurals
  • pronouns and how used
  • collective nouns
  • adverbs

• Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.

Writing

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).
• Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).
• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).
• Experiment with adjectives to create impact.
• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2^nd and 3^rd person.
• Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.
• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
• Group ideas into basic paragraphs.
• Write under headings and sub-headings.
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

Mathematics

• Compare & order numbers up to 1000.
• Read & write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.
• Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and100.
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.
• Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.
• Add and subtract:
  • 3-digit numbers and ones
  • 3-digit numbers and tens
  • 3-digit numbers and hundreds

• Add and subtract:
  • Numbers with up to 3-digits using written columnar method.
• Estimate and use inverse to check.
  • 2-digit by 1-digit
• Count up/down in tenths.
• Compare and order fractions with same denominator.
• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator with whole.
• Tell time using 12and 24 hour clocks and using Roman numerals.
• Tell time to nearest minute.
• Know number of days in each month and number of seconds in a minute.