Spoken Language & Communication:

• To listen and respond appropriately to adults and peers
• To ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
• To develop a wide and interesting vocabulary
• To articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• To communicate ideas, thoughts and emotions
• To use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
• To speak fluently, with clarity, confidence and increasing command of standard English
• To participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play and improvisations 
• To gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)
• To consider and evaluate different viewpoints, responding to the contributions of others
• To select and use the appropriate voice for effective communication
• To learn poetry by heart and to perform to an audience

Reading:

• To foster a love of reading
• To develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
• To read fluently, accurately and with confidence
• To effectively and efficiently decode using secure phonic knowledge
• To pronounce words correctly
• To develop reading comprehension skills including summary, retrieval, inference, comparing and contrasting and personal response. 
• To read widely across fiction, poetry and non-fiction
• To understand texts – writer intention, form, context, audience
• To use reading as a means of expanding existing knowledge and acquiring new knowledge
• To have an understanding and appreciation of our rich and varied literary heritage

Writing:

Spelling and Handwriting

• To take pride in their work and present it neatly and legibly
• To develop a fluent and legible handwriting style
• To spell words correctly

Composition

• To form ideas and plan effectively before writing
• To use imaginative description and figurative language
• To use a wide and interesting vocabulary to enhance writing
• To punctuate writing accurately
• To write with purpose and clarity for an intended audience
• To organise writing appropriately and coherently
• To use grammatically accurate sentences and paragraphs appropriately and coherently
• To present writing in different forms; for different audiences and in different contexts
• To evaluate, revise and edit writing

Analysis

• To analyse and interpret writing
• To use reading as research and preparation for writing