Theme

Activity/Knowledge/Skill

Term

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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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