Writing in Key Stage 1
By the end of their time in KS1, children will be expected to:
Write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional)
- Write about real events, recording these simply and clearly.
- Demarcate most sentences in their writing with capital letters and full stops and use question marks correctly when required.
- Use present and past tense mostly correctly and consistently.
- Use co-ordination (e.g., or / and / but) and some subordination (e.g., when / if / that / because) to join clauses.
- Segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of these words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others.
- Spell many common exception words.
- Form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters.
- Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.
Please refer to our progression of skills map KS1 for more detailed information.
