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Understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred
Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Understand how texts are made cohesive by the use of resources, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms
Analyse how different texts use nouns to represent people, places, things and ideas in particular ways
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs