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Reading in Year 1 – Your child needs to know
- be able to use their phonic knowledge to read words
- know all the 40+ phonemes (sounds) and know which letters or groups of letters correspond to them
- read words with -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est endings
- read a range of poems, stories and non-fiction
- be able to re-tell stories that they know
- correct their own inaccurate reading
Writing in Year 1 – Your child needs to know:
- learn to spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
- learn to write the days of the week
- learn to add suffixes, word endings (such as -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est) and also learn about the prefix un-
- form all lower case and upper-case letters, plus the digits 0 to 9
- join clauses in a sentence using the word ‘and’
- punctuate sentences using capitals, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
- sequence stories to form short narratives
- discuss what they have written with others