Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.
Tell stories from a first person perspective.
Understand stories use the past tense consistently.
Understand stories have a main character; and a main event or action.
Understand stories take place in a setting which is based on ideas from other stories/familiar places.
Say a sentence, write it, read it back to check it make sense.
Joining words and joining sentences using and.
Introduce compound sentences using and/but.
Use regular plural noun suffixes –s or –es (e.g. dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
Suffixes that can be added to verbs (e.g. helping, helped, helper).
How the prefix un– changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives (negation, e.g. unkind, or undoing, e.g. untie the boat).
Use simple adjectives to describe nouns; colour, size. emotion.
Add suffixes to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words; help, helper, helping, helped.
Use and and but as connectives.
Start sentences with The, My, I.
Use capital letters and full stops, spaces.
Use capital letters for names and the personal pronoun.