Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School

• Comment on the way characters relate to one another.

 • Know which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.

 • Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.

 • Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.

 • Recognise inverted commas

 • Recognise:

 o plurals

 o pronouns and how used

 o collective nouns

 o adverbs

 • Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.

Writing

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).

• Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).

• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).

• Experiment with adjectives to create impact.

• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

• Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.

• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

• Group ideas into basic paragraphs.

• Write under headings and sub-headings.

• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.