Learning expectations in Year 1

In English, by the end of Year 1, children should be able to…

Reading

  • Identify which words appear again and again.
  • Recognise and join in with predictable phrases.
  • Relate reading to own experiences.
  • Re-read if reading does not make sense.
  • Re-tell with considerable accuracy.
  • Discuss significance of title and events.
  • Make predictions on basis of what has been read.
  • Make inferences on basis of what is being said and done.
  • Read aloud with pace and expression, i.e.pause at full stop; raise voice for question.
  • Recognise:
    o capital letters
    o full stops
    o question marks
    o exclamation marks
  • Know why the writer has used the above punctuation in a text.
  • Know difference between fiction and nonfiction texts.


Writing

  • Write clearly demarcated sentences.
  • Use ‘and’ to join ideas.
  • Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but).
  • Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went.
  • Introduce use of:
    o capital letters
    o full stops
    o question marks
    o exclamation marks
  • Use capital letters for names and personal pronoun ‘I’.
  • Write a sequence of sentences to form a short narrative [as introduction to paragraphs].
  • Use correct formation of lower case letters – finishing in right place.
  • Use correct formation of capital letters.
  • Use correct formation of digits.


In Mathematics, by the end of Year 1, children should be able to… 

  • Count to and across 100, forwards & backwards from any number.
  • Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals & words.
  • Read and write numbers to 100 in numerals.
  • Say 1 more/1 less to 100.
  • Count in multiples of 2, 5 & 10.
  • Use bonds and subtraction facts to 20.
  • Add & subtract 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero.
  • Solve one-step multiplication and division using objects, pictorial representation and arrays.
  • Recognise half and quarter of object, shape or quantity.
  • Sequence events in chronological order.
  • Use language of day, week, month and year.
  • Tell time to hour & half past.