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By the end of Year 1 your child should be able to:
- Read aloud clearly and use some intonation for effect
- Listen with sustained concentration
- Explain their thoughts to a group
- Take turns speaking their part in acting out familiar stories
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By the end of Year 2 your child should be able to:
- Use gesture to support talk
- Be able to extract key points when listening to an adult
- Ensure all group members have a turn
- Present in front of an audience e.g. take part in a year group production or share a project in front of the class
- Improve their drama skills by practising and adding simple theatrical effects e.g. props and sound effects
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By the end of Year 1 your child should be able to:
- Use the 40+ main speech sounds in English and the letters that represent them
- Blend sounds together to form words
- Read aloud when reading books that contain familiar letter sound patterns
- Listen to, and talk about a range of stories, poems and non-fiction texts
- Learn about popular fairy tales and folk stories, and retell the stories
- Join in with repeated phrases in familiar books
- Make predictions about what might happen next in a book
- Explain clearly what has happened in a book they’ve read or listened to
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By the end of Year 2 your child should be able to:
- Read words aloud confidently, without obvious blending or rehearsal
- Identify letter patterns so that decoding becomes fluent and secure.
- Blend letter sounds, including alternative patterns, e.g. recognising ‘ue’ as the ‘oo’ sound
- Read aloud words which contain more than one syllable
- Recognise common suffixes, such as -ing and -less
- Read words which do not follow phonetic patterns, such as ‘one’ and ‘who’
- Take account of punctuation to help with fluency and expression
- Become familiar with a wide range of fairy stories and traditional tales
- Discuss favourite words and the meaning of new words
- Check that what has been read makes sense, and self-correct reading where necessary
- Make predictions about what might happen next in a story
Children will be expected to read aloud books which are appropriate for their reading ability. During Year 2 their increasing knowledge of decoding should allow them to read a wide range of children’s books.
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By the end of Year 1 your child should be able to:
- Hold a pen or pencil in the correct and comfortable way
- Name the letters of the alphabet in order
- Write lower-case letters starting and ending in the right place
- Join some letters correctly
- Write capital letters and the digits 0 to 9
- Spell simple words containing the main sounds they’ve learned in reading
- Spell the days of the week
- Learn to write words with common endings, such as -ed, -ing, -er and -est
- Plan out sentences aloud before writing them
- Write simple sentences using joining words such as ‘and’, ‘then’, ‘so’
- Use full stops and capital letters for sentences
- Combine sentences to write descriptions and stories
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By the end of Year 2 your child should be able to:
- Form letters of the appropriate size, using capital letters where appropriate
- Use appropriate spaces between words when writing
- Use diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting
- Spell longer words by breaking them into their sound parts
- Learn to spell some common homophones, recognising the difference between them e.g. hear and here
- Use the possessive apostrophe in simple phrases, such as ‘the boy’s football’.
- Write about real events and personal experiences
- Plan out writing in advance, including by writing down key words
- Re-read writing to check that it makes sense and to make corrections, including punctuation
- Use question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes and commas in lists
- Use the present and past tenses correctly in writing
- Write longer sentences by using conjunctions, such as ’ but’, ‘if’ or ‘because’
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