Word reading

• apply knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to read aloud and to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
•  read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound.
• attempt pronunciation of unfamiliar words drawing on prior knowledge of similar looking words.

Comprehension

• read a range of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction texts.
• discuss the texts that I read.
• read aloud and independently, taking turns and listening to others.
•  explain how non-fiction books are structured in different ways and can use them effectively.
•  explain some of the different types of fiction books.
•  ask relevant questions to get a better understanding of a text.
•  predict what might happen based on details I have.
•  draw inferences such as inferring a characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
• use a dictionary to check the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• identify the main point of a text.
• explain how structure and presentation contribute to the meaning of texts.
• use non-fiction texts to retrieve information.
• prepare poems to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.

 Spelling

• spell words with additional prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them to root words.
• recognise and spell homophones.
• use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary.
• spell words correctly which are in a family.
• spell the commonly exception words from the Y3/4 word list.
• identify the root in longer words.

Handwriting

• use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters.
• understand which letters should be left unjoined

Sentence structure

• express time, place and cause by using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions.

Text structure

• start to use paragraphs.
• use headings and sub headings.
• use the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past.

Punctuation

• use capital letters for names of people, places, day of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
• correctly use question marks and exclamation marks,
• use commas to separate items in a list.
• use apostrophes to show where letters are missing and to mark singular possession in nouns.
• use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

• compare and order numbers to 1000 and read and write numbers to 1000 in numerals and words.
• count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
• recognise the value of each digit in a 3-digit number.
• understand and  count in tenths, and find the fractional value of a given set.
•  add and subtract fractions with a common denominator.
• derive and recall multiplication facts for 3, 4 and 8x tables.
• add and subtract mentally combinations of 1-digit and 2- digit numbers.
• add and subtract numbers with up to 3-digits using formal written methods.
•  write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and vision using the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x and 10x tables.
• calculate 2-digit x 1-digit.
• solve number problems using one and two step problems

Measurement, Geometry and Statistics

• identify right angles and can compare other angles stating whether they are greater or smaller than a right angle.
• identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
• tell the time to the nearest minute and use specific vocabulary, including seconds, am & pm.
• measure, compare, add and subtract using common metric measures.
• solve one and two step problems using information presented in scaled bar charts, pictograms and tables.