Write a description of Big Blub and produce a diagram and explanation of the lifecycle of a frog.

• Understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
• Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves.
• Write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary.
• Learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify.
• Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related.
• Add suffixes to spell longer words.
• Write about real events.
• Write for different purposes.
• Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined.