Expectations in Literacy

Expectations in Literacy Emma Fitzpatrick Literacy Team Member Key Leader for Key Stage One and the Early Years

Literacy in Year Two • Expectations in reading • Expectations in writing • How to help your children achieve these

Progress • At Holly Park we believe that all children should make the best progress that they can, using their starting points as a baseline. • The national expectation is that they will develop by 2 sub levels per year.

Levels of Progress

Reading at 2B

Strategies for Reading • What does it look like? • Can you sound it out? • Can you think of a word that would make sense? • Can you think of a word that it could be? • Does the picture give you a clue? • Can you break it into parts?

Understanding the Text Children should be able to read about 90% of a text without struggling; this enables them to understand what they have read. What can you tell me about the characters? What was your favourite event? How was the character feeling? Which word tells you that? Reading with expression

What does the author mean? • Which words tell you that? • How did they make you feel that? • How did they use description?

Finding Information • Navigate a book • Different genres of text • Answering questions • Remembering the features of different texts – knowing where to look • Finding the words that were used

Any Questions?

Reading to Writing What do authors do? Why do they do it? Who did they write it for? Why did they write it like that? Who is the reader and what do they need to know?

Expectations in Writing at 2B

Does your writing make sense? • Encourage your child to read it through… • Actually read it through!!! • Children often read what they think they have written…not what they have actually put on the page.

Punctuation • Sentences MUST have finger spaces, full stops and capital letters at the end of each sentence. These are non-negotiables! • Sentences MUST make sense. • Later in the year children will be aware of speech marks, exclamation marks, question marks and commas.

Extended Writing • Knowing the features of different text types • Story – beginning, middle and end • Recount – events in the right order • Report – introduction, information, conclusion Understanding how paragraphs work Grouping information

Descriptive Exciting Language • Using the interesting words that authors use • Being a ‘Magpie’ • When children are reading they should be noticing the interesting, exciting words that are used and their effect on the reader. They should write them down and keep them for their own use.

Extra Details • Children sometimes flit between ideas without finishing each part successfully. • What else can you tell me about that?

Connectives and Sentence Starters • Once children are confident to punctuate their sentences with full stops they can start to connect their ideas with connectives… and, then, because, also, however, meanwhile etc. • Sentences need to be started with different words or the writing as a whole becomes repetitive.

Handwriting • Children should be forming all letters correctly. • Letters should then be sized appropriately with ascenders (t d h k l b) and descenders (q p g j y). • By the end of the year most children should be starting to join their letters.

Spelling • Decodable words that can be sounded out successfully • Digraphs and trigraphs eg ai, sh, ng, tch, dge • Rules eg double letters, adding ed for past tense and ing for present tense • Key words • Topic words • Words of interest

Any Questions?

Finally… • Be a reader and a writer yourself. You don’t have to make a big thing about it but let your children see you doing it…and enjoying it! • Read to your child every night, even if it’s just for 5 minutes.

Suggested Book Lists If your child is able to read these books fluently, try these… The Owl was Afraid of the Dark – Jill Tomlinson Dinosaur School The Queen’s Knickers – Nicholas Allen The Tunnel – Anthony Browne Horrid Henry’s Author Visit – Francesca Simon Stories of Dragons – Christopher Rawson Books for the expected level at the end of Year 2 (Level 2B) The Shopping Basket – John Burningham Biscuit Bear – Mini Grey Willy the Wizard – Anthony Browne Winnie’s Dinosaur Day – Valerie Thomas Rumble in the Jungle – Giles Andreae Into the Forest – Anthony Browne

Expectations in Literacy