To use a greater range of adjectives: beautiful, fierce, miserable.
To understand the terms: noun, verb, adjective, adverb.
To introduce types of sentence: statement, question, exclamation.
To understand use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress (e.g. she is drumming, he was shouting).
To make the correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing.
To use expanded noun phrases for description and specification (e.g. the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon).
To use embellished simple sentences: red squirrels enjoy eating delicious nuts.
To describe characters and include dialogue.
To use time connectives: first, next, then, after that, finally.
To compound sentences using and, but, so, then, because.
To explore different views and viewpoints.
Through reading and in life situations, recognise, that different people (characters) have different thought,/feelings about, views on and responses to particular scenarios (e.g. that the wolf would see the story of the Red Riding Hood differently to the girl herself).
To plan and write own story about a familiar character in the past tense, using the structure: opening, something happens, events to sort it out, ending.