In Year 1 children learn to:

• begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place;
• write sentences by:
  1. sequencing sentences to form short narratives; and
  2. re-reading what has been written to check that it makes sense.
• spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught;
• name the letters of the alphabet in order;
• write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the graphemes, phonemes and common exception words taught so far;
• introduce capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences.