Reading

• Refer to text to support opinions and predictions.
  
  
• Give a view about choice of vocabulary, structure, etc.
  
  
• Distinguish between fact and opinion.
  
  
• Appreciate how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.
  
  
• Recognise:
  
  complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause
  phrases which add detail to sentences
  
  
• Explain how a writer has used sentences to create particular effects.
  
  
• Skim and scan to aide note-taking.

Writing

• Use subordinate clauses to write complex sentences.
  
  
• Use passive voice where appropriate.
  
  
• Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. The fact that it was raining meant the end of sports day).
  
  
• Use a sentence structure and layout matched to requirements of text type.
  
  
• Use semi-colon, colon or dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses.
  
  
• Use colon to introduce a list and semi colon within a list.
  
  
• Use correct punctuation of bullet points.
  
  
• Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity.
  
  
• Use full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type.
  
  
• Use wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.
  
  
• Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.
  
  
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Mathematics

• Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero.
  
  
• Compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000.
  
  
• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
  
  
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.
  
  
• Identify the value of each digit to 3 decimal places.
  
  
• Use knowledge of order of operations to carry out calculations involving four operations.
  
  
• Multiply 4-digit by 2-digit
  
  
• Divide 4-digit by 2-digit
  
  
• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers.
  
  
• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in the simplest form.
  
  
• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers.
  
  
• Calculate percentage of whole number.