By the end of Year 6, children who are working at age related expectations should be able to:

Reading

• Refer to text to support opinions and predictions.

• Give a view about choice of vocabulary, structure, etc.

• Distinguish between fact and opinion.

• Appreciate how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.

• Recognise: complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause; phrases which add detail to sentences

• Explain how a writer has used sentences to create particular effects.

• Skim and scan to aide note-taking.

Writing

• Use subordinate clauses to write complex sentences.

• Use passive voice where appropriate.

• Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. The fact that it was raining meant the end of sports day).

• Use a sentence structure and layout matched to requirements of text type.

• Use semi-colon, colon or dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses.

• Use colon to introduce a list and semi colon within a list.

• Use correct punctuation of bullet points.

• Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity.

• Use full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type.

• Use wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.

• Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.

• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Mathematics

• Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero.

• Compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000.

• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.

• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.

• Identify the value of each digit to 3 decimal places.

• Use knowledge of order of operations to carry out calculations involving four operations.

• Multiply 4-digit by 2-digit

• Divide 4-digit by 2-digit

• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers.

• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in the simplest form.

• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers.

• Calculate percentage of whole number