By the end of Year 1, children who are working at age related expectations 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.
• Know difference between fiction and nonfiction texts.
• Read aloud with pace and expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question.
• Recognise: capitals letters; full stops; question marks; exclamation marks
• Know why the writer has used the above punctuation in a text.

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 – finishing in right place.
• Use correct formation of capital letters.
• Use correct formation of digits.

 Mathematics 

• 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.