Reading

• Identify which words appear again and again.
  
  
• Recognise and join in with predictable phrases.
  
  
• Relate reading to own experiences.
  
  
• Re-read if reading does not make sense.
  
  
• Re-tell with considerable accuracy.
  
  
• Discuss significance of title and events.
  
  
• Make predictions on basis of what has been read.
  
  
• Make inferences on basis of what is being said and done.
  
  
• Read aloud with pace and expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question.
  
  
• Recognise:
  
  capital letters
  full stops
  question marks
  exclamation marks
  ellipsis
  
  
• Know why the writer has used the above punctuation in a text.
  
  
• Know difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

Writing

• Write clearly demarcated sentences.
  
  
• Use ‘and’ to join ideas.
  
  
• Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but).
  
  
• Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went.
  
  
• Introduce use of:
  
  capital letters
  full stops
  question marks
  exclamation marks
  
  
• Use capital letters for names and personal pronoun ‘I’.
  
  
• Write a sequence of sentences to form a short narrative [as introduction to paragraphs].
  
  
• Use correct formation of lower case – finishing in right place.
  
  
• Use correct formation of capital letters.
  
  
• Use correct formation of digits.

Mathematics

• Count to and across 100, forwards & backwards from any number.
  
  
• Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals & words.
  
  
• Read and write numbers to 100 in numerals.
  
  
• Say 1 more/1 less to 100.
  
  
• Count in multiples of 2, 5 & 10.
  
  
• Use bonds and subtraction facts to 20.
  
  
• Add & subtract 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero.
  
  
• Solve one-step multiplication and division using objects, pictorial representation and arrays.
  
  
• Recognise half and quarter of object, shape or quantity.
  
  
• Sequence events in chronological order.
  
  
• Use language of day, week, month and year.
  
  
• Tell time to hour & half past.