Reading

• Comment on the way characters relate to one another.
  
  
• Know which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
  
  
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
  
  
• Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.
  
  
• Recognise inverted commas
  
  
• Recognise:
  
  plurals
  pronouns and how used
  collective nouns
  adverbs
  
  
• Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.

Writing

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).
  
  
• Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).
  
  
• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).
  
  
• Experiment with adjectives to create impact.
  
  
• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
  
  
• Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.
  
  
• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
  
  
• Group ideas into basic paragraphs.
  
  
• Write under headings and sub-headings.
  
  
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

Mathematics

• Compare & order numbers up to 1000.
  
  
• Read & write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.
  
  
• Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.
  
  
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
  
  
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.
  
  
• Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.
  
  
• Add and subtract
  
  3-digit nos and ones
  3-digit nos and tens
  3-digit nos and hundreds
  
  
• Add and subtract:
  
  Numbers with up to 3-digits using written columnar method.
  
• Estimate and use inverse to check.
  
  
• Multiply:
  
  2-digit by 1-digit
  
• Count up/down in tenths.
  
  
• Compare and order fractions with same denominator.
  
  
• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator with whole.
  
  
• Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using Roman numerals.
  
  
• Tell time to nearest minute.
  
  
• Know number of days in each month and number of seconds in a minute.