Plan stories orally; explore moral dilemmas for characters using drama.
Write adventure stories that have a problem and resolution and are organised into paragraphs and/or chapters with connectives to signal time, sequence or place. Include description of a typical adventure setting and characters. Use written dialogue to move the plot on.
Use long and short sentences; long sentences add description or information; short sentences for emphasis.
Use expanded noun phrases: so many people, plenty of food.
Use list of three for description: He wore old shoes, a dark cloak and a red hat. African elephants have large ears, long trunks and curly tusks.
Introduce paragraphs as a way to group related material.
Use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.
Use adverbs to open sentences: Suddenly, Angrily, Sadly…
Use simple similes: as tall as a tree, as bright as the sun.
Use alliteration: dangerous dragon, slimy slug.
Use of adverbs: Tom ran quickly down the hill.
Use repetition: he walked and walked and walked. A green dragon, a fiery dragon.
Use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning (for e.g. solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble).
Use of the forms a or an according to whether the next word starts with a consonant or a vowel; a cat, an octopus.
Through reading explore how different views might be expressed/explained/justified (e.g. the different view of characters in a particular book, the different view of people writing to a newspaper.)
Through role play and drama explore how different views might be expressed/explained/justified (e.g. the different view of characters in a particular book, the different view of people in a simulated ‘real life’ scenario.)