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joins in confidently with most of the actions in songs, stories and rhymes recognises written form and meaning of known vocabulary from the spoken word can answer most questions learnt uses ‘i have’ and ‘it is’ to form simple sentences. can model sentences to describe things (nouns + adjectives) reads and recognises most familiar vocabulary enjoys participating in stories, songs and poems and shows the ability to retain some of the words through repetition can make links to phonics and pronounce familiar words well, responds well to teacher prompting to understand new words writes some known words and short phrases from memory with understandable spelling substitutes and adapts noun-adjective collocations in simple sentences. can follow and a model to create a few short phrases with nouns and adjectives, usually uses the correct indefinite article in practice activities – independent use is more variable can recognise and say singular and plural nouns, differentiating between them able to place and agree some familiar adjectives correctly in practice activities uses i have / it is /they are / there is but may confuse their meaning and use uses ‘and’ and ‘but’ with some confidence L1 L2 S1a S1b S1c S2 S3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 W1 W2 W3 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5