Year 1 – English
Reading
By the end of the year, we expect pupils to be able to:
- apply phonic knowledge and skills to decode words
- read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words
- read common exception words (that don’t follow the common rules)
- read word ending in -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est
- read words with contractions,e.g. I’m, We’ll
- read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their phonic knowledge
- listen to and discuss a range of poem, stories and non-fiction at an appropriate level
- link what they read to their own experiences
- retell familiar key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
- appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart
- discuss the meaning of words
- draw on what they already know or on background information or vocabulary
- check the text makes sense to them as they read, correct inaccurate reading as they go along
- discussing the significance of the title and events of the book
- make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
- predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
- participate in discussions about what is read to them
- explain clearly their understanding of what is read to them
- answer comprehension questions about a text
Writing
By the end of the year, we expect pupils to be able to:
- sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly
- being to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
- form capital letters and digits 0-9
- understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ and to practise these
- say aloud what they are going to write about and compose a sentence orally before writing it
- sequence sentences to form short narratives
- re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense
- discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
- read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard
- leave spaces between words
- join clauses in a sentence using ‘and’
- begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
- use a capital letter for names of people, places, days of the week, and the pronoun ‘I’
- use grammatical terminology to discuss their writing.
Spelling
- name the letters of the alphabet in order
- spell the days of the week
- spell words taught in their phonics lessons
- use the spelling rules for adding -s or -es to make plurals
- use the prefix un-, e.g. unkind
- use -ing, -ed, -er and -est, e.g. kinder, eating, quickest
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