Your child will be expected to:
• Use classroom reference books such as dictionaries and thesaurus to widen vocabulary.
• Use spelling logs and be encouraged to start to understand why their spellings are wrong.
• Explore antonyms and synonyms.
• Learn a poem by heart and to perform it to others.
• Use language differently to address different audiences
• Talk about subjects in a logical way and write stories that have a proper beginning, middle and end.
• Understand common punctuation marks, such as speech marks and commas.
• Give their critical thinking and opinions on texts that they have read.
Children taking part in this course will cover different curriculum areas providing a wider breadth of information. Curriculum areas such as history, science, geography and design technology will be used to broaden the children's writing. Topics such as Egyptians, and World War 2, The Water Cycle and Volcanoes will be studied