Write a short narrative in the style of the book.

• Read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation, re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
• Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves.
• Spell homophones and near-homophones.
• Write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary.
• Add –Ing, –ed, –er, –Est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter.
• Suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful, –less and –Ly.
• Encapsulate what they want to say, sentence by sentence.
• Write narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional).
• Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another.