Reading

• Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and make up own mind about issue/s.
  
  
• Compare between two texts
  
  
• Appreciate that people use bias in persuasive writing.
  
  
• Appreciate how two people may have a different view on the same event.
  
  
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
  
  
• Vary voice for direct or indirect speech.
  
  
• Recognise clauses within sentences.
  
  
• Explain how and why a writer has used clauses to add information to a sentence.
  
  
• Use more than one source when carrying out research.
  
  
• Create a set of notes to summarise what has been read.

Writing

• Add phrases to make sentences more precise and detailed.
  
  
• Use range of sentence openers – judging the impact or effect needed.
  
  
• Begin to adapt sentence structure to text type.
  
  
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.
  Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will).
  
  
• Use the following to indicate parenthesis:
  brackets, dashes, comma
  
  
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.
  
  
• Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
  
  
• Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g. she began to run).
  
  
• Consistently organize into paragraphs.
  
  
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly).
  
  
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed. 

Mathematics

• Count forwards and backward with positive and negative numbers through zero.
  
  
• Count forwards/backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000.
  
  
• Compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000.
  
  
• Compare and order numbers with 3 decimal places.
  
  
• Read Roman numerals to 1,000.
  
  
• Identify all multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs.
  
  
• Use known tables to derive other number facts.
  
  
• Recall prime numbers up to 19.
  
  
• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers.
  
  
• Recognise place value of any number up to 1,000,000.
  
  
• Round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 or 100,000.
  
  
• Round decimals with 2 decimal places to nearest whole number and 1 decimal place.
  
  
• Add and subtract numbers with more than 4-digits using formal written method.
  
  
• Use rounding to check answers.
  
  
• Multiply 4-digits by 1-digit/ 2-digit
  
  
• Divide up to 4-digits by 1-digit
  
  
• Multiply & divide whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000
  
  
• Recognise and use thousandths.
  
  
• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one to another.
  
  
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers.
  
  
• Identify and write equivalent fractions.
  
  
• Solve time problems using timetables and converting between different units of time.