Chapter library

Chapter 1: Catch Your Ideas

• Can gather ideas that fit a topic and jot them down as quick notes before writing

Chapter 2: Who Is It For?

• Can say who a piece of writing is for and why, and choose the right kind of writing and words

Chapter 3: First, Next, Last

• Can plan a beginning, a middle and an end and use time words like first, next and finally

Chapter 4: Say It, Write It

• Can say a sentence first, then write it with capital letters, full stops and the right words

Chapter 5: Read It Back

• Can read writing back to spot mistakes and make it even better

Chapter 1: Studying instructions: title, list, steps and diagram

• Can spot the title, the list of things you need, the numbered steps and the diagram in a set of instructions

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 2: Command words: the bossy verbs that start each step

• Can start each step with a command word, like cut, mix or put

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Time words: putting steps in order with first, next, then, finally

• Can put steps in the right order and use time words like first, next, then and finally

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Headings, sub-headings, numbered steps and diagrams

• Can organise instructions with a heading and sub-headings, like You will need and What to do
• Can write one action in each numbered step and label a diagram

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Plan, organise and test your own instructions

• Can organise instructions with a heading and sub-headings, like You will need and What to do
• Can put steps in the right order and use time words like first, next, then and finally
• Can spot the title, the list of things you need, the numbered steps and the diagram in a set of instructions

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Readers and reasons: who a letter or email is for, and why

• Can look at example letters and emails and spot who they are for and why they were written

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 2: Parts of a letter: address, date, greeting and sign-off

• Can name the parts of a letter, like the address, date, greeting, message and sign-off, by exploring an example

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Parts of an email: To, subject line, greeting and sign-off

• Can name the parts of an email, like the To box, subject line, greeting, message and sign-off, by exploring an example

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Words and grammar: friendly or polite words, and joining words

• Can pick out friendly or polite words, and joining words like because and so, from example letters and emails

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Planning: discussing and recording ideas

• Can plan by discussing ideas, recording them as short notes, and boxing them up into a beginning, middle and end

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 6: Your turn: plan your own letter or email from an example

• Can plan by discussing ideas, recording them as short notes, and boxing them up into a beginning, middle and end
• Can pick out friendly or polite words, and joining words like because and so, from example letters and emails
• Can look at example letters and emails and spot who they are for and why they were written

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Meet the Paragraph

• Can explain that a paragraph is a group of sentences about one idea, starting on a new line

Chapter 2: Sort the Sentences

• Can sort sentences about the same idea into one paragraph

Chapter 3: TiPToP Junction

• Can tell when to start a new paragraph: a new time, place, topic or person

Chapter 4: Line Them Up

• Can put paragraphs in a sensible order, with a beginning, middle and end

Chapter 5: Link It Up

• Can link paragraphs with words like first, next, after that and finally

Chapter 1: Say it first

• Can say a sentence out loud before writing it and check that it makes sense

Chapter 2: Words in the right order

• Can put words in the right order so that a sentence makes sense

Chapter 3: Start and end it

• Can start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with the right mark

Chapter 4: Choose great words

• Can choose interesting words that make the meaning clear

Chapter 5: Join it up

• Can join ideas with joining words like because, when, if and although