Sentence level curriculum writing targets for ____Primary School
Academic year: 2005 - 2006
Year Group: F to Y6
Whole school curriculum target (s):

Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effect (Writing assessment
focus 5)
Year group targets to support whole school target:
Must
Should
Year
Target
Target statement*
*To reach age expected levels –
statement
A floor target below
which no child
should fall
the bulk of the children should
meet or exceed theses targets
(aim for 80%)
Could
Target statement
Allows headroom for
higher attainers and
for average attainers
in term 3
F
Dictate a simple
sentence.
Begin to write simple sentences
independently.
Write questions and
statements
appropriately.
Y1
Begin to write simple
sentences
independently.
Write questions and statements
appropriately.
Begin to use
conjunctions to write
compound sentences.
Y2.
Write questions and
statements
appropriately
Begin to use conjunctions to write
compound sentences.
Vary openings of
sentences to avoid
repetition.
Y3
Begin to use
conjunctions to write
compound
sentences.
Vary openings of sentences to
avoid repetition.
Write simple and
compound sentences
and begin to use relative
clauses.
Y4
Vary openings of
sentences to avoid
repetition.
Write simple and compound
sentences and begin to use
relative clauses.
Adapt or rearrange
sentences in relation to
text types, using
subordinate clauses to
add information, to give
reasons and to explain.
Y5
Write simple and
compound
sentences and begin
to use relative
clauses.
Adapt or rearrange sentences in
relation to text types, using
subordinate clauses to add
information, to give reasons and to
explain.
Secure control of
complex sentences,
understanding how
clauses can be
manipulated to achieve
different effects.
Y6.
Adapt or rearrange
sentences in relation
to text types, using
subordinate clauses
Secure control of complex
sentences, understanding how
clauses can be manipulated to
to add information, to
give reasons and to
explain
achieve different effects.
Agreed actions to achieve targets
 Display whole class targets at three levels in class and share with
children, displaying a range of examples from shared and demo texts
and children’s own work
 Use Developing Early Writing and Grammar for Writing resources
linked to text types to plan for whole class interactive teaching at
sentence level to enable target getting
 Show focussed teaching to targets on weekly plans
 Include targeted sentence types in text annotation, demo writes,
marking ladders and toolkits
Methods of evaluating success of actions:
Termly work scrutiny includes monitoring of progress towards targets.