Spelling:

• Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
• Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]
• Continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
• Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling 
• Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
• Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
• Use a thesaurus.

Handwriting and presentation:

• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed

Writing:

• Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
• Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
• In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed
• Draft and write by selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• Précising longer passages
• Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
• Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader [for example, headings, bullet points, underlining]
• Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
• Proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• Ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
• Ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural, distinguishing between the language of speech and writing and choosing the appropriate register
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
• Perform their own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume, and movement so that meaning is clear
• Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
• Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
• Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
• Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
• Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
• Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
• Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
• Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
• Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
• Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
• Using a colon to introduce a list
• Punctuating bullet points consistently
• Use and understand grammatical terminology accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.

• Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000
• Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
• Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
• Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
• Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals
• Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits
• Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
• Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
• Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
• Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
• Know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
• Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
• Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
• Multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts
• Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared ( 2 ) and cubed (3 )
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
• Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates
• Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
• Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other 
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams
• Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
• Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
• Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
• Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
• Recognise the percent symbol (%) and understand that percent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
• Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25
• Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
• Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
• Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2 ) and square metres (m2 ) and estimate the area of irregular shapes
• Estimate volume and capacity
• Solve problems involving converting between units of time
• Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling
• Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
• Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles
• Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees
• Identify angles at a point, one whole turn, on a straight line, half a turn and other multiples of 90 degrees
• Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles
• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles
• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed
• Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
• Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables