Key Stage 2
Year 3
Year 3 Vocabulary
- Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although
- Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion to avoid repetition
- Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause (and place)
Year 3 Grammar
- Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense
- Form nouns using prefixes (super-, anti-)
- Use the correct form of ‘a’ or ‘an’
- Word families based on common words (solve, solution, dissolve, insoluble)
Year 3 Punctuation
- Using and punctuating direct speech (i.e. inverted commas)
Year 3 Grammatical Terminology
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Word family
- Prefix
- Clause
- Subordinate clause
- Direct speech
- Consonant
- Consonant letter
- Vowel
- Vowel letter
- Inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
Year 4
Year 4 Vocabulary
- Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although
- Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion to avoid repetition
Year 4 Grammar
- Using fronted adverbials
- Difference between plural and possessive –s
- Standard English verb inflections (I did vs I done)
- Extended noun phrases, including with prepositions
- Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun to create cohesion
Year 4 Punctuation
- Using commas after fronted adverbials
- Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with singular and plural nouns
- Using and punctuating direct speech (including punctuation within and surrounding inverted commas)
Year 4 Grammatical Terminology
- Determiner
- Pronoun
- Possessive pronoun
- Adverbial
Year 5
Year 5 Vocabulary
- Use a thesaurus
- Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
- Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
Year 5 Grammar
- Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
- Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
- Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs
- Verb prefixes
- Devices to build cohesion, including adverbials of time, place and number
Year 5 Punctuation
- Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
- Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
Year 5 Grammatical Terminology
- Modal verb
- Relative pronoun
- Relative clause
- Parenthesis
- Bracket
- Dash
- Cohesion
- Ambiguity
Year 6
Year 6 Vocabulary
- Use a thesaurus
- Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
- Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
Year 6 Grammar
- Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
- Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
- Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
- Differences in informal and formal language
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Further cohesive devices such as grammatical connections and adverbials
- Use of ellipses
Year 6 Punctuation
- Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
- Using semicolons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
- Using a colon to introduce a list
- Punctuating bullet points consistently
Year 6 Grammatical Terminology
- Subject
- Object
- Active
- Passive
- Synonym
- Antonym
- Ellipses
- Hyphen
- Colon
- Semi-colon
- Bullet points