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Adjectives

discussing, defining, collecting, classifying, identifying in shared reading

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deleting/substituting them, experimenting with in shared writing

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comparative and superlative, degrees of intensity; adjectival phrases

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Adverbs

identifying; collecting, classifying, the ly suffix, substituting in clauses or sentences

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as qualifiers of verbs, impact of in sentences; using in own writing

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degrees of intensity, for contraction and possession, spelling rules

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Apostrophe

beginning to use in own writing; identifying use of in reading

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for possession (revise from Y4 Term 1)

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Capital letter

use to start sentence

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for names, headings, emphasis, new lines in poetry

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Clauses

joining and separating

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sentences with more than one clause; identifying the main clause

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manipulating to achieve different effects

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Comma

to separate items in a list

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occurrence in reading, discuss functions

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marking grammatical boundaries within sentences

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as aid to reader

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commas in the punctuation of direct speech

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in embedding clauses

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Conjunctions

use a widening range of

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Connectives

use adverbs, adverbial phrases, conjunctions, to structure an argument

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to link clauses, to link sentences

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words and phrases, collect, classify

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Colon

as aid to reader

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Conditionals

in past and future, their uses; using to construct sentences

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Dialogue

commas and paragraphing (see also "speech")

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Discursive text

grammatical features/language conventions of

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Explanatory texts

grammatical features/language conventions of explanatory texts

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Formal official language

collecting and analysing, conventions of, typical words/expressions

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Grammar

use awareness of grammar to help decipher new/unfamiliar words

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check own work/suggest alternative constructions

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Grammatical agreement

in speech and writing

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pronouns and verbs

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nouns and verbs

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nouns, pronouns, verbs

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Grammatical features of

discursive, explanatory, instructional, narrative, persuasive texts

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recounts reports

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Handwriting

presentation devices, speech bubbles, enlarged /italicised print, captions, headings in set text

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Instructional writing

verb forms in

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Instructional texts

grammatical features/ language conventions of

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Language

differences between spoken and written language

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language conventions of discursive, explanatory, instructional, narrative, persuasive texts, recounts, reports

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investigating language of proverbs, language changes, dialect etc.

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Narrative

grammatical features/language conventions of

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Nouns

pluralising nouns

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revision from Y.4; agreement with pronouns and verbs

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Persuasive texts

grammatical features/language conventions of

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Pluralisation

recognising singular/plural forms; which nouns can be pluralised

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transforming sentences between singular and plural

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Prepositions

search for, identify and classify, substituting and experimenting

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revise from Y.5

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Presentation devices

speech bubbles, enlarged or italicised print, captions and headings, inset text

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Pronouns

noticing in speech and reading

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grammatical agreement with verbs

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personal/possessive pronouns

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substituting pronouns for nouns in own writing

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agreement with nouns and verbs, revision from Y4

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ensuring clarity of

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Punctuation

purpose and use of full stop, capitals, exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks

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use speech marks in writing

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use commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, speech marks in reading

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notice commas and layout of direct speech

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to replace intonation, pauses, gestures

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in complex sentences

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colon, semicolon, parenthetic commas, dashes, brackets (secure use of)

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Reading

identifying adjectives in shared reading

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words/phrases to signal time sequences

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ambiguities, exploring in sentence contractions

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Reading and Punctuation

notice commas; notice capital letters

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identify possessive apostrophes

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use commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, speech marks

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notice commas and layout of direct speech

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Recounts

verb forms in

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grammatical features/language conventions of

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Reports

grammatical features/language conventions of

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Sentences (see also grammatical agreement)

questions ; statements

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ambiguity arising from sentence contraction

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shortening; deleting/substituting words in; combining two or more

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differences between spoken and written language

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contracting sentences for editing, note making, summary (revise)

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Sentences: word order

deleting words and retaining sense

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orders which maintain/destroy meaning

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changing word order, words essential to meaning

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reorder simple sentences

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re-expressing sentences, revise from Y5

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Sentences: complex

combining two or more sentences

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checking meaning of; exploring sequence/structure of clauses

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using different connectives

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appropriate punctuation (revise); constructing them (revise)

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identifying main clauses; ways of connecting clauses (revise)

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Speech

Use of speech marks in own writing

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direct/reported speech; commas and paragraphing for direct speech

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Standard English

agreement between nouns/verbs; consistency of tense/subject

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avoidance of double negatives; avoidance of non-standard dialect

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revise from Year 5

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Suffixes

indicating degrees of intensity in adverbs

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Term

speech marks; verb

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adjective, use it appropriately; singular, plural, use these appropriately

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collective noun, comma

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tense

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preposition

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active and passive

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Types of text

discursive, explanatory, instructional, narrative, persuasive, recounts, reports

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Verbs: collect/classify

function of verbs; experimenting with verbs

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1st, 2nd, 3rd person, collect, categorise, discuss

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powerful verbs

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1st, 2nd, 3rd person; identify and classify verbs; auxiliary verbs

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Verbs: forms of

active, interrogative, imperative in recounts/instructional writing

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active and passive

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passive voice, effects of

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Verbs: grammatical agreement

with pronouns

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with pronouns and nouns

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Verbs: tenses

use past tense consistently for narration

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use tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing

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in narrative and information texts

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past, present, future; past tense in recounts

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Vocabulary

powerful verbs

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Word classes

cues for identifying

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Writing

demarcate sentences with full-stop/capital letter

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write in complete sentences and identify sentence boundaries

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use commas in lists

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use verb tenses with increasing accuracy

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experimenting with adjectives in shared writing

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use widening range of conjunctions

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ensure grammatical agreement of pronouns and verbs

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word/phrases to signal time sequences

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edit and revise own writing

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using adverbs with discrimination in own writing

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using commas to mark grammatical boundaries within sentences

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using apostrophe

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good connectives (discuss)

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proof read/edit own work; simplify clumsy constructions; (discuss)

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use imperative forms of verb in instructional texts/past tense in recounts

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complex sentences

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for different readers/purposes

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transform between active/passive

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using conditionals

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impersonal voice; passive (revise)

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