A YEAR 1 SPEAKER

• I speak clearly and confidently in front of people in my class.
• I can re-tell a well-known story and remember the main characters.
• I can hold attention when playing and learning with others.
• I can keep to the main topic when we are talking in a group.
• I can ask questions in order to get more information.
• I can start a conversation with an adult I know well or with my friends.
• I listen carefully to the things other people have to say in a group.
• I join in with conversations in a group.
• I join in with role play.

A YEAR 1 READER

WORD READING

• I can match all 40+ graphemes to their phonemes.
• I can blend sounds in unfamiliar words.
• I can divide words into syllables.
• I can read compound words.
• I can read words with contractions and understand that the apostrophe represents the missing letters.
• I can read phonetically decodable words.
• I can read words that end with ‘s, -ing, -ed, -est
• I can read words which start with un-.
• I can add –ing, -ed and –er to verbs. (Where no change is needed to the root word)
• I can read words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs.

COMPREHENSION

• I can say what I like and do not like about a text.
• I can link what I have heard or read to my own experiences.
• I can retell key stories orally using narrative language.
• I can talk about the main characters within a well-known story.
• I can learn some poems and rhymes by heart.
• I can use what I already know to understand texts.
• I can check that my reading makes sense and go back to correct when it doesn’t.
• I can draw inferences from the text and/or the illustrations. (Beginning)
• I can make predictions about the events in the text.
• I can explain what I think a text is about.

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A YEAR 1 WRITER

TRANSCRIPTION

SPELLING

• I can identify known phonemes in unfamiliar words.
• I can use syllables to divide words when spelling.
• I use what I know about alternative phonemes to narrow down possibilities for accurate spelling.
• I can use the spelling rule for adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ for verbs in the 3rd person singular. 
• I can name all the letters of the alphabet in order.
• I can use letter names to show alternative spellings of the same phoneme.

HANDWRITING

• I can sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortable and correctly.
• I can form lower case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place.
• I can form capital letters and digits 0-9.

COMPOSITION

• I can compose a sentence orally before writing it.
• I can sequence sentences in chronological order to recount and event or experience.
• I can re-read what I have written to check that it makes sense.
• I leave spaces between words.
• I know how the prefix ‘un’ can be added to words to change meaning.
• I can use the suffixes ‘s’, ‘es’, ‘ed’, and ‘ing’ within my writing. 

GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

• I can combine words to make a sentence.
• I can join two sentences using ‘and’.

TEXT STRUCTURE

• I can sequence sentences to form a narrative.

PUNCTUATION

• I can separate words using finger spaces.
• I can use capital letters to start a sentence.
• I can use a full stop to end a sentence.
• I can use a question mark.
• I can use an exclamation mark.
• I can use capital letters for names.
• I can use ‘I’.