Working Towards Expected

• I am using full stops and capital letters correctly
• I am beginning to use commas
• I am starting to use question marks
• I am starting to use exclamation marks
• I am spelling most Year 1 & 2 words correctly
• I am mostly writing in the correct tense
• I can use coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences (FANBOYS)
• I am using subordinating conjunctions (when, if, that, because)

Working At Expected

• I can describe a setting
• I am using commas mostly correctly
• I am using exclamation marks mostly correctly
• I am using question marks mostly correctly
• I am using suffixes mostly correctly e.g. -ment, -ness, -ful, -ly
• I am starting to use paragraphs
• I am starting to use fronted adverbials
• I am starting to use expanded noun phrases
• I as beginning to use inverted commas
• I am beginning to join my handwriting
• I am beginning to use subordinating conjunctions
• I am using the possessive apostrophe mostly correctly
• I am spelling homophones correctly
• I mostly write in the correct tense
• I am using ‘a’ or ‘an’ correctly
• I am spelling some Year 3 & 4 words correctly.

Working At Greater Depth

• I am using question marks correctly
• I am using exclamation marks correctly
• I am using commas correctly
• I am suing speech marks mostly correctly
• I am using fronted adverbials correctly
• I am using expanded noun phrases correctly
• I am using paragraphs
• I am using headings and subheadings
• I am using Year 3 & 4 subordinating conjunctions
• I am spelling most Year 3 & 4 words correctly
• I am writing in joined handwriting
• I am using the possessive apostrophe
• I use different sentence structures