Y1 - Working towards the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher: 

• say out loud what they are going to write about
• write a single sentence demarcated with capital letters and full stops
• segment many spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes 
• spell some common exception words*
• begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place 
• recognise where spaces between words have been missed.

Y1 - Working at the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher:

• read own writing aloud clearly for others to hear and discuss
• orally rehearse sentences and sequence them to form short narratives
• join words and clauses with the conjunction ‘and’
• use past, present and future accurately in speech and begin to incorporate these in their writing
• demarcate many sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
• spell some Y1 common exception words* and the days of the week
• segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many words in a phonically-plausible way
• form many letters and digits correctly, with some difference between upper and lower-case

letters

• use spaces between words.

Y1 - Working at greater depth within the expected standard

The pupil can, after discussion with the teacher: 

• begin to write effectively and coherently for different purposes
• join words and clauses with a variety of commonly used conjunctions (e.g. and, but, because)
• use capital letters and full stops mostly correctly
• spell most Y1 common exception* words accurately and make phonically-plausible attempts at spelling unfamiliar words form most letters correctly.