The skills, understandings and concepts covered in this pack:

• Practising a variety of text types (for example: narratives, information reports, lists, recounts).
• Practising uppercase and lowercase letter formation (handwriting).
• Developing a large vocabulary of words.
• Understanding what syllables are and how to identify them.
• Understanding that vowels make multiple sounds (short and long vowel sounds) and practising to identify them.
• Understanding what adjectives, nouns, pronouns and verbs are, identifying them and how to use them.
• Identifying details in sentences (where, when and how).
• Recognising, reading, writing and spelling common consonant digraphs and blends.
• Learning what rhyming words are and identifying them.
• Understanding, sorting, matching and manipulating word families.
• Reading, writing and spelling high frequency words.