Listening and Speaking

• To talk and listen with more confidence in an increasing range of contexts e.g. discussion, stories, poetry, debates etc.
• Children are developing their ideas in thought first before speaking i.e. thinking their ideas through.
• Able to describe events and convey their opinions clearly.
• Are beginning to take notice of standard English in vocabulary and grammar.
  Understand that standard English is used in certain situations.

Reading

• To understand how writers create imaginary worlds, particularly where this is original or unfamiliar.
• To understand how settings influence events and incidents in stories and how they affect characters behaviour and to compare and contrast settings across a range of stories.
• To understand how the use of expressive and descriptive language can e.g. create moods, arouse expectations, build tension, describe attitudes or emotions.
• To identify social, moral or cultural issues in stories.
• To describe how a poet does or does not use rhyme e.g. every alternative line, rhyming couplets, no rhyme, and patterns of rhyme.

Writing

• To use photographs in story writing to organise and sequence the story.
• To develop use of settings in own writing, making use of work on adjectives and figurative language to describe settings effectively.
• Note making to edit down a sentence or passage by deleting the less important elements.
• To write own longer stories in chapters from story plans.
• To write poems, experimenting with different styles and structures, discuss if and why different forms are more suitable than others.

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