To use capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas in a list.
To secure use of types of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
To compose new dialogue for characters using standard conventions for punctuating and presenting speech.
To role play a dialogue between characters.
To express time, place and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon, therefore) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).
Formation of nouns using a range of prefixes (e.g. super–, anti–, auto–).
To use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.
To use time connectives: eventually, just then, although, meanwhile.
To analyse a number of report texts and note their function, form and typical language features: introduction indicating an overall classification of what is being described use of short statement to introduce each new item language (specific and sometimes technical) to describe and differentiate impersonal language mostly present tense.
To distinguish between generalisations and specific information and between recounts and reports, using content taken from another area of the curriculum.
Refine research and note-taking techniques using information and ICT texts on a subject and using a spidergram to organise the information.
To analyse broadcast information to identify presentation techniques and notice how the language used signals change.
To write with subject verb agreements with generic participants (e.g.) family is…., people are…
To use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation.
To introduce complex sentences: use of who (relative clause.) There was a little old woman who lived in a cottage.
To use other subordinating connectives: when, while, where, which, because, so that, if, to, until.
To write non-chronological report using notes in a spidergram.