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English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, choosing correctly between them

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Ensure subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement within and across sentences

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Understand and use abstract nouns to name ideas, qualities, and states that cannot be perceived by the senses

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Understand and use modal verbs (can, may, must, might, shall, will, could, should, would) and modal adverbs (perhaps, surely, certainly) to indicate degrees of…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the progressive (continuous) verb tenses — past progressive (was walking), present progressive (am walking), and future progressive (will be…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (later, meanwhile, after a while), place (nearby, far away, beyond the wall), and number (secondly…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use cohesive devices within a paragraph — including pronouns, adverbials (then, after that, firstly), and synonyms — to link sentences and build a coherent flow…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Know and use Year 5 grammar terminology accurately when discussing reading and writing: modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis, bracket…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use prepositional phrases (preposition + noun phrase) to add detail about time, location, or direction within sentences, recognising how they function…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use brackets, dashes, and commas to indicate parenthesis — additional information inserted into a sentence that could be removed without changing the sentence's…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use relative clauses beginning with relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why) to add detail, qualify…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional English patterns (opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose) to produce natural-sounding…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Convert nouns and adjectives into verbs by adding suffixes -ate, -ise (-ize), and -ify, understanding how word class changes affect sentence construction

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use verb prefixes (dis-, de-, mis-, over-, re-) to change verb meaning, understanding how each prefix modifies the action expressed by the root verb

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity in sentences where the absence of a comma could cause misreading

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, so, yet) when joining two independent clauses in a compound sentence

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Recognise and correct sentence fragments (incomplete sentences lacking a subject or predicate) and run-on sentences (two or more independent clauses joined…

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Begin to join letters using diagonal and horizontal strokes, understanding which letter pairs are best left unjoined, forming letters of correct size relative…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read common high-frequency and exception words automatically by sight, including words with irregular spelling patterns

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Recognise and spell compound words by identifying the two component words that combine to form a single word

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Recognise alternative grapheme-phoneme correspondences for known phonemes (e.g., /dʒ/ as ge/dge/g, /s/ as c, /n/ as kn/gn, /r/ as wr, /ʒ/ as s), reading words…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (prosody), re-reading familiar texts to build fluency and confidence, and using context to…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Decode words of two or more syllables by breaking them into syllable chunks, applying knowledge that every syllable must contain a vowel sound, and blending the…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read Y3-4 exception words with unusual spelling-sound correspondences, applying growing knowledge of morphology and etymology to decode unfamiliar exception…