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🎨 By the end of Year 3, students are Language Adventurers exploring the world of words and ideas!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students chat, share, and perform like mini storytellers or reporters, using spoken and multimodal texts. They express opinions, preferences, and appreciation for stories, adding juicy details from topics they love or texts they’ve explored. They group, sequence, and link ideas like puzzle pros, and use topic-specific words, visual clues, and voice tricks to make their stories sparkle.

📚 Reading & Viewing:
Students become text detectives, spotting the purpose and audience of every story or information piece. They uncover literal meanings and reveal hidden messages, noticing how characters and events drive the plot. They describe how stories and texts are structured, explore literary devices, and see how visual features add extra meaning. Their reading flows smoothly as they use phonics, morphemes, and grammar skills to tackle multisyllabic and tricky words.

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written or multimodal texts like mini authors and creators — stories to entertain, explain, inform, or persuade. They link ideas and include relevant details from topics they’ve studied or love. They organise their writing with paragraphs, sprinkle in compound sentences, topic-specific words, literary devices, and visuals, and make their letters neat and consistent. They spell multisyllabic and high-frequency words like word wizards using their phonics and morpheme knowledge.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 3, students are storytellers, detectives, and creative explorers, confidently using words, visuals, and ideas to captivate, inform, and entertain!

🎬 By the end of Year 4, students are Word Wizards and Story Explorers!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students chat, present, and perform like storytellers, reporters, or mini directors! They share and grow ideas, opinions, and information with audiences, sprinkling in juicy details from topics they love or texts they’ve explored. They organise their ideas like clever puzzle masters and use subjective and objective language, topic-specific words, literary tricks, visuals, and voice magic to captivate their listeners.

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students become text detectives on a mission, uncovering how stories and information inform, influence, or entertain. They spot how characters and events develop ideas, and notice how texts reflect the world around them. They explore different text structures like secret maps, and see how literary devices and visuals make meaning pop! They read fluently and accurately, combining phonics, morphemes, grammar, and punctuation like true reading superheroes.

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students write and create like authors, journalists, and creators, crafting stories and texts for real purposes and audiences. They develop ideas with details from topics they know or love, organise their work into neat paragraphs, and add sparkle with complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary, literary devices, and visuals. Their letters are clear and flowing, and they spell multisyllabic and tricky words like word wizards using phonics, morphemes, and grammar superpowers.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 4, students are creators, detectives, and performers, using words, visuals, and ideas to inform, entertain, and influence anyone who reads, listens, or watches their work!

🌟 By the end of Year 5, students are Language Explorers on a creative quest!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students become master communicators, interacting, sharing, and performing like storytellers or mini-presenters. They expand ideas and opinions for specific audiences, sprinkling in juicy supporting details from topics they love or texts they’ve explored. They organise ideas with clever text structures and add sparkle with topic-specific words, literary devices, multimodal tricks, and voice features — making every story, speech, or presentation memorable!

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students are text detectives on a mission, exploring texts designed to inform, influence, or entertain. They explain how characters, settings, and events bring ideas to life and how texts reflect different contexts. They notice how text structures help a text achieve its purpose and how language features, literary devices, and visuals create meaning and effect — almost like reading hidden messages in a treasure map.

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written or multimodal texts, including literary works, for real purposes and audiences. They develop and expand ideas with supporting details, organise their writing with paragraphs, and bring it to life using complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific words, literary devices, and multimodal features. Their spelling and grammar are like tools in a wizard’s kit — combining phonics, morphemes, and grammar knowledge to create polished, magical texts.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 5, students are creative adventurers, storytellers, and detectives, confidently using words, structures, and visuals to inform, entertain, and impress their audiences!