English

In English, as always, students will extend their love of reading and writing through supported:

• exposure to gradually more sophisticated and challenging texts
• development of greater fluency and expression when reading and speaking
• differentiated phonics instruction
• consolidation of decoding skills in reading and writing
• extension of comprehension skills e.g. literal, inferential and applied knowledge
• development of writing skills which will include letter formation, finger spacing and punctuation
• continuation of investigating the structure and writing of recounts, including incorporating interesting language features such as adjectives, adverbs and time connectives
• introduction of informative texts and information report writing. Students will be researching and creating an information report on an animal of their choice
• learning about the features and structure of procedural texts and scientific report writing, for our Inquiry experiments
• continued exposure to non-fiction texts
• extension of vocabulary when writing and speaking