Write a first-person narrative retelling of a familiar nursery rhyme, playing with perspective.

• Prepare poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
• Identify and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.
• Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.
• Link ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections and ellipsis.
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
• Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
• Use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.
• Plan writing by considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed.
• Draft and write by selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.
• To evaluate and edit by proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.