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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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