Ioan loves writing stories before breakfast. But this time, he decided to write something that was, “A bit like a poem, but also a bit like somebody just describing the scene.”

Resources

  • Paper
  • Pencil
  • Coloured pencils
  • Eraser

Method

Ioan decided to set out the scene described with his toys before reading it to us all.

Ioan’s always been one for attention to detail, both in his writing and his play.

Once he was ready with his scene, he read his writing to us.

As he played with the scene, he spotted the shadows on the wall.

Ioan’s writing:

DfES Outcomes for EYFS and National Curriculum (2013)

English Year 2 programme of study

Writing – Handwriting

  • Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another
  • Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined
  • Write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters
  • Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.

Writing – Composition

  • Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:
    • writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
    • writing about real events
    • writing for different purposes
  • Consider what they are going to write before beginning by:
    • planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
    • writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
    • encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence
  • Make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by:
    • evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils
    • re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form
    • proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
  • Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear.

Writing – vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

  • Develop their understanding by learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly, including:
    • full stops
    • capital letters
    • exclamation marks
    • question marks
  • Learn how to use sentences with different forms:
    • statement
    • question
    • exclamation
  • Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]
  • Use the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
  • Subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but)

Science Year 3 programme of study

Light

  • recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object