Sentence Level Work - An Index of Themes.


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Index only covers Key Stage 2. It shows the themes and the term(s) in which they are taught.

Theme

Activity/Knowledge/Skill

Year 3

Term

Year 4

Term

Year 5

Term

Year 6

Term

   

1

2

3

1

2

3

1

2

3

1

2

3

Instructional writing

verb forms in

           

*

         

Instructional texts

grammatical features/ language conventions of

                     

*

Language

differences between spoken and written language

             

*

       
 

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

                     

*

 

investigating language of proverbs, language changes, dialect etc.

                     

*

Narrative

grammatical features/language conventions of

                     

*

Nouns

pluralising nouns

 

*

                   
 

revision from Y.4; agreement with pronouns and verbs

             

*

       

Persuasive texts

grammatical features/language conventions of

                     

*

Pluralisation

recognising singular/plural forms; which nouns can be pluralised

 

*

                   
 

transforming sentences between singular and plural

 

*

                   

Prepositions

search for, identify and classify, substituting and experimenting

               

*

     
 

revise from Y.5

                 

*

   

Presentation devices

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

*

                     

Pronouns

noticing in speech and reading

   

*

                 
 

1st, 2nd, 3rd person forms of; marking gender;

grammatical agreement with verbs

   

*

                 
 

personal/possessive pronouns

   

*

                 
 

substituting pronouns for nouns in own writing

   

*

                 
 

agreement with nouns and verbs, revision from Y4

             

*

       
 

ensuring clarity of

             

*

       

Punctuation

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

*

                     
 

use speech marks in writing

   

*

                 
 

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

         

*

           
 

notice commas and layout of direct speech

           

*

         
 

to replace intonation, pauses, gestures

             

*

       
 

in complex sentences

             

*

*

     
 

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

                 

*

   

Reading

identifying adjectives in shared reading

 

*

                   
 

words/phrases to signal time sequences

   

*

                 
 

ambiguities, exploring in sentence contractions

             

*

       

Reading and Punctuation

notice commas; notice capital letters

 

*

                   
 

identify possessive apostrophes

       

*

             
 

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

         

*

           
 

notice commas and layout of direct speech

           

*

         

Recounts

verb forms in

           

*

         
 

grammatical features/language conventions of

                     

*

Reports

grammatical features/language conventions of

                     

*

Sentences (see also grammatical agreement)

questions ; statements

         

*

           
 

ambiguity arising from sentence contraction

             

*

       
 

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

             

*

       
 

differences between spoken and written language

             

*

       
 

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

                   

*

 

Sentences: word order

deleting words and retaining sense

 

*

       

*

         
 

orders which maintain/destroy meaning

       

*

             
 

changing word order, words essential to meaning

           

*

         
 

reorder simple sentences

             

*

       
 

re-expressing sentences, revise from Y5

                 

*

*

 

Sentences: complex

combining two or more sentences

             

*

       
 

checking meaning of; exploring sequence/structure of clauses

                 

*

   
 

using different connectives

                 

*

   
 

appropriate punctuation (revise); constructing them (revise)

                   

*

 
 

identifying main clauses; ways of connecting clauses (revise)

                   

*

 

Speech

Use of speech marks in own writing

   

*

                 
 

direct/reported speech; commas and paragraphing for direct speech

           

*

         






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