Writing simple, coherent narrative pieces about personal experiences and those of others

Use adventurous and varied vocabulary e.g. exciting adjectives for colour, size and using expanded noun phrases (adjective, adjective noun)

Use adverbs with -ly endings (quickly, quietly, peacefully, gently)

Use verbs and edit verbs to indicate time correctly (past and present tense), including the progressive tense. e.g. I was walking, I was jumping. 

Add suffixes to spell most words e.g -ment, -ness, -ful, -less

Use co-ordination (and, but, or) and use some subordination (when, if, that, because) to join clauses. 

Write using statements, commands, questions and exclamations with the correct use of punctuation (., ? and !)

Use commas to separate items in a list (bread, milk, fruit and cakes)

Use capital letters for proper nouns and for the personal pronoun ‘I’ 

Spell words with contracted forms using apostrophes (can’t, wouldn’t)

Use apostrophes for singular possession (the dog’s tail, the child’s bag)

Spell most high frequency and common exception words

Beginning to use some joins (knowing the break letters and not joining capital letters)