Curriculum Alignment

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others

Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue

Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view

Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations

Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume

Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and correcting

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation

Write using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size

Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements