To read examples of third person recounts such as letters, newspaper reports and diaries and recount the same event in a variety of ways, such as in the form of a story, a letter, a news report ensuring agreement in the use of pronouns.
To watch or listen to third person recounts such as news or sports reports on television, radio or podcast and identify the sequence of main events.
To use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation.
Use time connectives: eventually, just then, although, meanwhile.
To introduce inverted commas (or speech marks) to punctuate direct speech.
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.
Use expanded noun phrases: so many people, plenty of food.
To use of the forms a or an according to whether the next word starts with a consonant or a vowel; a cat, an octopus.
To understand word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning (for e.g. solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble).
To use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.