Write an argument.

Write a narrative including dialogue.

Write formal and informal letters in role.

• Read books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
• Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
• Identify themes and conventions in a wide range of books.
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.
• Draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme.
• Use and punctuate direct speech.
• In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot.
• Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• 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.