Key Stage 2

Progression of Knowledge and Skills

We want our Year 3 readers to:

• Comments on the way characters relate to one another.
• Knows which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts & motives from their actions.
• Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.

Recognise:

• plurals
• pronouns and how used
• collective nouns
• adverbs
• Can explain the difference that adjectives and verbs make.

We want our Year 4 readers to:

• Give a personal point of view on a text.
• Can re-explain a text with confidence.
• Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied.
• Use appropriate voices for characters within a story.
• Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation.
• Skims & scans to locate information and/or answer a question.

We want our Year 5 readers to:

• Summarises main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and makes up own mind about issue/s.
• Can compare between two texts.
• Appreciates that people use bias in persuasive writing.
• Appreciates how two people may have a different view on the same event.
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
• Varies voice for direct or indirect speech.

Recognise:

• Clauses within sentences
• Uses more than one source when carrying out research.
• Creates set of notes to summarise what has been read.

We want our Year 6 readers to:

• Refers to text to support opinions and predictions.
• Gives a view about choice of vocabulary, structure etc.
• Distinguish between fact & opinion.
• Appreciates how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.
• Recognise complex sentences
• Skims and scans to aide note-taking.

Curriculum Overview

    The documents below show how the RWI curriculum matches the National curriculum.