English Curriculum Objectives
Reading - Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning
- Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text
- Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts
- Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level
- Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level
- Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader
- Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions
Writing - Write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts
- Produce texts which are appropriate to task, reader and purpose
- Organise and present whole texts effectively, sequencing and structuring information, ideas and events
- Construct paragraphs and use cohesion within and between paragraphs
- Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect
- Write with technical accuracy of syntax and punctuation in phrases, clauses and sentences
- Select appropriate and effective vocabulary
- Use correct spelling
Speaking and Listening - Talk in purposeful and imaginative ways to explore ideas and feelings, adapting and varying structure and vocabulary according to purpose, listeners, and content
- Listen and respond to others, including in pairs and groups, shaping meanings through suggestions, comments and questions
- Create and sustain different roles and scenarios, adapting techniques in a range of dramatic activities to explore texts, ideas and issues
- Understand the range and uses of spoken language, commenting on meaning and impact and draw on this when talking to others
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