The skills, understandings and concepts covered in this pack:

• Questions to ask before, during and after reading a text.
• Inferring what is happening, what might have happened and what might happen next.
• Understanding what is a base word and suffix.
• Becoming familiar with common suffixes.
• Understanding what is a synonym.
• Understanding what is an antonym.
• Understanding what a word association is.
• Recognising and becoming familiar with common letter and sound combinations including silent letters.
• Understanding what is a compound word.
• Understanding what is a short and long vowel.
• Letter formation of upper and lower case letters on dotted thirds.
• Practising a variety of text types (for example: narratives, information reports, persuasives, poetry, procedures).
• Reading, writing, making and spelling high frequency words.