Write a short narrative that creates excitement, action, tension and suspense. Convey a sense of danger and risk, embedding dialogue effectively.

• Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
• Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.
• Draft and write by selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.
• Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
• In narratives, describe settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
• Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

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.

Write ‘All About Me’ pages for three malevolent fairy tale characters.

Write a personal statement/personality card in role as The Troll, as an entry for Inside the Villains.

Write the story of The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff from The Troll’s perspective.

• Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions.
• Identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing, making comparisons within and across books.
• Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
• Use a colon to introduce a list.
• Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
• In narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
• Plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
• Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun.
• Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing, proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Write a description of the Christmas tree.

Write a recount of the battle between the Mouse King and the Nutcracker.

Write a description of The Kingdom of Sweets.

• Participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.
• Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.
• Plan their writing by discussing and recording ideas.
• Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot.
• Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
• Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined.