Listening and Speaking

• Begin to talk and listen confidently in different contexts, exploring and communicating ideas.
• Have an awareness that in some situations a more formal vocabulary and tone of voice are used.
• In discussions that can show that they have listened carefully by responding with relevant comments and questions.
• Be able to read aloud or recite by heart poetry that plays with language whilst taking note of punctuation and meaning.

Reading

• Understand the distinction between fact, fiction and non-fiction and notice the differences in style and structure of fiction and non-fiction writing.
• Be able to locate information in non-fiction texts by using contents, index, headings, sub-headings and page numbers.
• Be able to identify typical story themes (good over evil, wise over foolish) and recognise the styles and voices of traditional story language.
• Be able to identify main and recurring characters and discuss characters feelings, behaviour and relationships.
• Be able to distinguish between rhyming and non-rhyming poetry.

Writing

• Be able to plan main points as a structure for story writing and plan and write own myths, fables and alternative versions of traditional tales.
• Write shape and performance poems and poetry that uses sounds to create effects e.g. onomatopoeia, alliteration and distinctive rhythms.
• Be able to write non-chronological reports from known information, recipes, letters and messages and experiment with recounting events in a variety of ways.
• Start to develop the use of settings in own stories.
• Write simple playscripts based on reading and oral work

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