Reading

• Read age-appropriate texts fluently for long periods of time (at least half an hour).
• Use knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and root words to understand new words.
• Recite and quote from favourite poems by heart.
• Read aloud with appropriate tone, intonation and volume to make the meaning clear.
• Draw inferences about characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives, and justify with evidence from the text.
• Distinguish between fact and opinion when reading non-fiction texts.
• Compare within and across a range of texts, including genre, theme and layout.
• Identify and comment on figurative language used for effect (e.g.: metaphor and personification).
• Read widely and talk at length about a wide range of books, including myths, legends, traditional stories, modern and classical fiction, as well as books from other cultures/traditions and longer narrative poems.
• Summarise and précis a longer text.
• Identify themes and conventions across a range of writing.

Writing

• Write at length across a range of text types (narrative, non-fiction, poetry), showing an understanding of audience and purpose.
• Make deliberate choices decisions about vocabulary, and sentence lengths, types and structures.
• Use dialogue to convey character & advance action.
• Use the full range of verb tenses, formal language and the passive voice appropriately.
• Use paragraphs to organise information and signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.
• Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. The fact that it was raining meant the end of sports day).
• Use a range of punctuation with increasing accuracy (including: commas, brackets, dashes, colons, semi-colons, hyphens and bullet points).
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency, including joining letters using diagonal and horizontal strokes.

Mathematics

• Compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000.
• Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero(e.g.: the difference between -17 and 5 is 22).
• Recognise and use common factors, common multiples, prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers.
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and decimals to the nearest whole number.
• Use knowledge of order of operations (BODMAS) to carry out calculations involving four operations and brackets.
• Add and subtract 7-digit numbers and numbers to 3 decimal places using the formal column method.
• Multiply any 4-digit number by a 2-digit number.
• Divide: any 4-digit number by a 2-digit number.
• Use common multiples to add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers.
• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in the simplest form (e.g. 2/3 x 1/2 = 2/6 = 1/3).
• Divide simple proper fractions by whole numbers (e.g.:1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6).
• Calculate percentages of quantities e.g. 75% of 360, and use percentages for comparison.
• Begin to use algebra to express simple missing number problems (e.g. 6n = 42) and express possibilities of combinations of two variables (e.g. n x m = 24).