Everything your child learns in Year 1 English.

Skills: Letter sounds, Grapheme-phoneme correspondence, Phase 2/3 phonics consolidation, Phase 5 phonics, Blending sounds to read a word, Segmenting a word into sounds, Decoding unfamiliar words, Reading words with alternative pronunciations, Reading common exception words, Reading contractions

Skills: Reading simple sentences, Reading aloud, Reading with accuracy, Reading with expression, Re-reading to build fluency, Building reading confidence

Skills: Recalling information from a text, Answering who/what/where/when questions, Making a simple prediction, Making a simple inference, Sequencing events in a story, Retelling a story, Understanding new vocabulary in context

Skills: Composing a sentence orally before writing it, Writing a simple sentence, Using a capital letter to start a sentence, Using a full stop to end a sentence, Using finger spaces between words, Joining two ideas with 'and'

Skills: Writing a label or caption, Writing a simple list, Writing a simple description, Writing a simple narrative, Writing simple instructions, Writing a simple poem

Skills: Understanding what a word is, Understanding what a sentence is, Identifying a noun, Identifying a verb, Understanding singular and plural

Skills: Recognising a letter, Using a capital letter correctly, Using a full stop correctly, Using a question mark correctly, Using an exclamation mark correctly

Skills: Spelling using Phase 2/3 phonics, Spelling using Phase 5 phonics, Spelling common exception words

Skills: Adding -s and -es for plurals, Adding -ing to a root word, Adding -ed to a root word, Adding -er and -est to a root word, Spelling simple compound words

Skills: Using everyday vocabulary accurately, Using descriptive words, Building spoken vocabulary through talk

Skills: Identifying opposites, Introducing synonyms, Understanding word meanings, Using context clues to work out a word's meaning