Throughout the year we will be learning...

Reading

• Listening to you read and giving you books to read at home
• Doing lots of phonics to help you remember all of your letters and sounds
• Learning to read the year 1 and year 2 key words 
• Asking lots of different questions about the books and texts you read to help improve your comprehension skills

Writing

• Doing lots of phonics to help you to segment words and spell them
• Practising how to form all of the lower case letters
• Practising to spell the year 1 and year 2 common exception words
• Writing texts about real and imagined things
• Writing different types of poetry
• Practising how to THINK and SAY each sentence properly before writing them
• Learning how to punctuate sentences by using: full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and apostrophes for contractions (can't, won't shouldn't, etc.) and possession (Tom's coat)
• Learning how to extend sentences by using different conjunctions, such as: and, but, so, because, when, or and if
• Learning about the following word classes: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs.

Autumn 1

This term we will be writing...

• Poems
• Narratives to retell stories
• Fact files

Our key texts will be, 'The Storm Whale' and 'Gorilla'.

We will be focusing on skills such as:

• Using capital letters at the beginning of sentences and for names
• Full stops to end sentences
• Using the conjunctions 'and' and 'but'
• Forming letters including capital letters and ensuring the size of letters is correct
• Spelling common tricky words
• Saying our sentences first before writing them so that they make better sense.