Reading

• Secure with year group phonic expectations.
  
  
• Recognise simple recurring literary language.
  
  
• Read ahead to help with fluency and expression.
  
  
• Comment on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories.
  
  
• Recount main themes and events.
  
  
• Comment on structure of the text.
  
  
• Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression.
  
  
• Read aloud with expression and intonation.
  
  
• Recognise:
  
  commas in lists
  apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun)
  
  
• Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense.
  
  
• Use content and index to locate information.

Writing

• Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
  
  
• Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification.
  
  
• Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but).
  
  
• Correct and consistent use of present tense & past tense.
  
  
• Correct use of verb tenses.
  
  
• Write with correct and consistent use of:
  
  capital letters
  full stops
  question marks
  exclamation marks
  
  
• Use commas in a list.
  
  
• Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns.
  
  
• Write under headings.
  
  
• Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another.
  
  
• Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting.

Mathematics

• Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =.
  
  
• Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words.
  
  
• Say 10 more/less than any number to 100.
  
  
• Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10s from any number (forwards and backwards).
  
  
• Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables.
  
  
• Recall and use +/- facts to 20.
  
  
• Derive and use related facts to 100.
  
  
• Recognise place value of any 2-digit number.
  
  
• Add & subtract:
  
  2-digit nos & ones
  2-digit nos & tens
  Two 2-digit nos
  Three 1-digit nos
  
  
• Recognise and use inverse (+/-).
  
  
• Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables.
  
  
• Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4.
  
  
• Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions.
  
  
• Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to.