WRITING including SPELLING, GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION

By the end of Year 1 we are aiming for:

HANDWRITING

In Year 1 children will be taught to:

sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly
begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
form capital letters
form digits 0-9
understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (ie letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these

SPELLING

In Year 1 children will be taught to:

spell:
- words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
- common exception words
- the days of the week
name the letters of the alphabet:
- naming the letters of the alphabet in order
- using letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings of the same sound
add prefixes and suffixes:
- using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs
- using the prefix un–
- using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]
apply simple spelling rules
write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far

VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR and PUNCTUATION

In Year 1 children will be taught to:

WRITING COMPOSITION

In Year 1 children will be taught to:

write sentences by:
- saying out loud what they are going to write about
- composing a sentence orally before writing it
- sequencing sentences to form short narratives
- re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
read their writing aloud, clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher

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