English

Spoken Language

  • listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
  • ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
  • use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
  • articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
  • give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings
  • maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments  use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
  • speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English
  • participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)
  • consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
  • select and use appropriate registers for effective communication

 

Text Types

Myths and legends

Traditional stories

Modern fiction

Fiction from our literary heritage (pre 20th Century)

Books from other cultures and traditions

Poetry to learn by heart

Poems using onomatopoeia, metaphor, personification

Non-fiction

Biography

Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

  • convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes, e.g. –ate; –ise; –ify
  • understand verb prefixes, e.g. dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–
  • use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun
  • indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs, e.g. perhaps, surely, or modal verbs, e.g. might, should, will, must
  • use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph, e.g. then, after that, this, firstly
  • link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, e.g. later, place, e.g. nearby, and number, e.g. secondly, or tense choices, e.g. he had seen her before
  • use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
  • use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

 

Terminology: modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis, bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity

Spelling

  • spell words with the letter string ‘ough’
  • spell words ending in ‘-cious -tious
  • spell homophones
  • spell words with ‘silent’ letters
  • prefixes de, re
  • suffix ate, ise, ify
  • use spelling journals for etymology
  • use a dictionary to support learning word roots, derivations and spelling patterns
  • use strategies at the point of writing: using etymological/ morphological strategies for spelling

See annotated appendix 1 for spelling

 

 

 

  • Handwriting
  • write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed by choosing which shape of a letter to use when given choices and deciding whether or not to join specific letters
  • choose the writing implement that is best suited for a task

 

Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

  • convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes, e.g. –ate; –ise; –ify
  • understand verb prefixes, e.g. dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–
  • use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun
  • indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs, e.g. perhaps, surely, or modal verbs, e.g. might, should, will, must
  • use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph, e.g. then, after that, this, firstly
  • link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, e.g. later, place, e.g. nearby, and number, e.g. secondly, or tense choices, e.g. he had seen her before
  • use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
  • use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

 

Terminology: modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis, bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity

Spelling

  • spell words with the letter string ‘ough’
  • spell words ending in ‘-cious -tious
  • spell homophones
  • spell words with ‘silent’ letters
  • prefixes de, re
  • suffix ate, ise, ify
  • use spelling journals for etymology
  • use a dictionary to support learning word roots, derivations and spelling patterns
  • use strategies at the point of writing: using etymological/ morphological strategies for spelling

See annotated appendix 1 for spelling

 

 

 

  • Handwriting
  • write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed by choosing which shape of a letter to use when given choices and deciding whether or not to join specific letters
  • choose the writing implement that is best suited for a task