Reading

• Read age-appropriate texts fluently and for an increasing period of time.
• Use knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and root words to understand new words.
• Use a dictionary to look up the meaning of new words.
• Express an opinion about a text, including likes and dislikes.
• Make predictions based on what has happened and using own experience.
• Can retell known stories accurately and confidently.
• Begin to summarise sections of a text.
• Compare texts by the same author.
• Explain why a writer has used words/phrases/different sentence types and the effect it has created.
• Can scan non-fiction texts to locate information and/or answer a question.

Writing

• Write at length across a range of text types (narrative, non-fiction, poetry), showing an understanding of audience and purpose
• Read aloud own writing clearly, with appropriate expression, tone and volume
• Use standard English forms for verbs e.g. ‘we were’ instead of ‘we was’, or ‘I did’ instead of ‘I done’
• Use paragraphs to organise ideas
• Vary sentence structure, using different openers.
• Use noun phrases with prepositional phrases (e.g. the stranger with brown, curly hair).
• Use appropriate choice of noun or pronoun.
• Use fronted adverbials followed by a comma (e.g. Later that day, I heard bad news.).
• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech.
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency, including joining letters using diagonal and horizontal strokes.

Mathematics

• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
• Compare and order numbers beyond 1,000, and numbers with up to 2 decimal places.
• Read Roman numerals to 100.
• Find 1,000 more/less than a given number.
• Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
• Recall and use multiplication and division facts all tables to 12x12.
• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000, and decimals to the nearest whole number.
• Add and subtract numbers with up to 4-digits using the formal written (column) method.
• Multiply: 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 1-digit.
• Find unit and non-unit fractions of numbers and quantities (e.g. 2/3 of 24).
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks.