Key Stage 2
Progression of Knowledge and Skills
We want our Year 3 readers to:
- Comments on the way characters relate to one another.
- Knows which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts & motives from their actions.
- Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.
Recognise:
- plurals
- pronouns and how used
- collective nouns
- adverbs
- Can explain the difference that adjectives and verbs make.
We want our Year 4 readers to:
- Give a personal point of view on a text.
- Can re-explain a text with confidence.
- Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied.
- Use appropriate voices for characters within a story.
- Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation.
- Skims & scans to locate information and/or answer a question.
We want our Year 5 readers to:
- Summarises main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and makes up own mind about issue/s.
- Can compare between two texts.
- Appreciates that people use bias in persuasive writing.
- Appreciates how two people may have a different view on the same event.
- Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
- Varies voice for direct or indirect speech.
Recognise:
- Clauses within sentences
- Uses more than one source when carrying out research.
- Creates set of notes to summarise what has been read.
We want our Year 6 readers to:
- Refers to text to support opinions and predictions.
- Gives a view about choice of vocabulary, structure etc.
- Distinguish between fact & opinion.
- Appreciates how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.
- Recognise complex sentences
- Skims and scans to aide note-taking.
Curriculum Overview
