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English // English Thinking

Notice the difference between decoding words and actually understanding them — recognise when you've read the words but not grasped the meaning, and do…

English // English Thinking

Distinguish between what a text explicitly says and what you have inferred, assumed, or read in — knowing which is which is fundamental to honest comprehension

English // English Thinking

Recognise how an author's deliberate choices — of words, structure, tone, and perspective — create particular effects on you as a reader

English // English Thinking

Evaluate whether your own writing achieves the effect you intended on a reader — go beyond checking for correctness to asking whether it actually works

English // English Thinking

Monitor your own vocabulary gaps — notice words you half-know, distinguish confident from uncertain knowledge, and develop strategies to resolve the uncertainty

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Begin sentences with a capital letter and end them with the appropriate mark (full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark); recognise and name end punctuation

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use verbs to convey past and present tense correctly and consistently, including the progressive form (e.g., she is drumming, he was shouting), understanding…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use commas to separate items in a list within a sentence (e.g., 'I bought apples, bananas, and oranges')

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but) to join clauses and create compound and complex sentences

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the simple past tense, understanding how the present perfect indicates an action completed at an…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs correctly (e.g., sat, hid, told, went, came, ran), recognising that these do not follow the…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use and understand Year 3 grammatical terminology accurately when discussing reading and writing: preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use conjunctions (when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs (then, next, soon, therefore) and prepositions (before, after, during, in, because of) to…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion, avoiding ambiguity and repetition; use reflexive pronouns correctly (e.g., myself, ourselves, himself)

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Punctuate direct speech using inverted commas (speech marks), understanding that direct speech records the exact words spoken and must be enclosed in…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use adjectives and adverbs correctly, choosing between them depending on whether a noun or verb/adjective is being modified (e.g., 'She ran quickly' vs 'She is…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use irregular plural nouns (e.g., children, teeth, mice, geese) in addition to regular plurals, recognising that some nouns have irregular plural forms…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the correct form of the indefinite article — 'a' before words beginning with a consonant sound and 'an' before words beginning with a vowel sound (e.g., a…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the simple past, present, and future verb tenses consistently in writing

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use Standard English verb inflections in place of non-standard local forms

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Know and use Year 4 grammar terminology including determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, and adverbial

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use fronted adverbials to vary sentence openings and punctuate them with commas

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Distinguish between the plural -s suffix and the possessive -'s suffix in nouns

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Expand noun phrases with modifying adjectives, nouns, and preposition phrases to add detail