Students will examine character descriptions that include appearance and behaviour, understanding how the character's development is evident through descriptions, the reactions of other characters to him or her and the dialogue of the character.
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
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
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
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
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Compare and evaluate two texts presenting the same ideas and analyse why one is more comprehensible or engaging than the other
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes