Speaking and Listening 1.

1: Identify key features of speech in a variety of contexts, and some key skills and strategies used by speakers. Speaking and Listening 1.2: Sift and summarise the most important points or key ideas from a talk or discussion. Speaking and Listening 2.1: Tailor the structure and vocabulary of talk to classify ideas. Speaking and Listening 2.1: Use some verbal and non-verbal techniques to make talk interesting for listeners. Speaking and Listening 2.2: Recognise different conventions and forms in speech. Speaking and Listening 3.1: Make clear and relevant contributions to group discussion. Speaking Listening 3.2: Contribute to discussion in different ways such as promoting, opposing, exploring and questioning. Speaking and Listening 4.1: Explore ideas, texts and issues through a variety of dramatic approaches and conventions. Reading 5.1: Use inference and deduction to recognise implicit meanings at sentence and text level. Reading 5.2: Identify and understand the main ideas, viewpoints, themes and purposes in texts. Reading 5.3: Understand how readers choose and respond to texts. Reading 5.3: Make informed personal choices of texts and express their preferences. Reading 6.1: Understand the different ways in which texts can reflect their social, cultural and historical contexts and/or the literary traditions in which they were written. Reading 6.2: Identify and describe the effect of writers use of specific literary and grammatical features. Reading 6.2: Recognise and comment on how writers choices and techniques have an effect on readers. Reading 6.3: Explore the range of different ways writers use layout, form and presentation in a variety of texts. Reading 6.3: Explore the variety and range of ways the content of texts can be organised and structured. Language 10.2: Understand and make use of the most common terms used to describe language when referring to their own or others language use. Writing 7.1: Develop different ways of generating, organising and shaping ideas, and choose from a range of planning formats. Writing 7.2: Draw on the conventions of written forms to plan writing and develop ideas to fit a specific task. Writing 7.2: Writing 8.2: Use punctuation accurately to clarify meaning and create effects in clauses, sentences and when writing speech. Writing 8.2: Vary sentence length and structure in order to provide appropriate detail, make clear the relationaship between ideas, and create effects according to task, purpose and reader. Writing 8.5: Make ideas and purpose clear by appropriate use of paragraphs and by choosing from a range of linking words and phrases. Writing 8.5: Shape the overall organisation, sequence and presentation of a text to convey ideas clearly and effectively. Writing 8.6: Make improvements to a piece of writing as it progresses by developing techniques for editing, proofreading and making revisioins. Writing 9.2: Understand and use appropriately in their own writing the conventions of sentence grammar. Reading AF2: Understand, describe, select or retrieve information. Reading AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret. Reading AF4: Comment on the structure and organisation of texts. Reading AF5: Comment on the writers use of language. Reading AF6: Comment on the writers purposes and viewpoint, and effect on the reader. Reading AF7: Relate texts to social, cultural and historical context.

Writing AF1: Write imaginative and interesting texts. Writing AF2: Produce texts appropriate to reader and purpose. Writing AF3: Organise whole texts effectively. Writing AF4: Construct paragraphs and use cohesion within and between them. Writing AF5: Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect. Speaking and Listening AF1: Talk in purposeful and imaginative ways, including non-verbal features. Speaking and Listening AF2: Listen and respond to others. Speaking and Listening AF3: Adapt structure and vocabulary accordingly, including standard English. Speaking and Listening AF4: Make a range of contributions when working in groups. Speaking and Listening AF5: Create and sustain roles in dramatic activities.