Grammar
The children need to be familiar with these terms and show evidence in their independent writing to achieve end of year expectations.
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Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Word |
The difference between plural and possessive –sThe boy’s football. The boys’ football. Verb inflections
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Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs, by using suffixeseg –ate, -ise, -ify authorise advertise classify captivate Verb prefixeseg dis- de- mis- over- re- disappear defrost mistake replay |
Sentence structure |
Expanded noun phrases
Fronted adverbialsLater that day, Mrs Daniels explained to the class about the project. |
Relative clauses. These usually begin with who, which, when, where, whose, thatClass 5, who were great scientists, counted the percentage of seeds that had germinated. Modal verbs: eg. might, should, willThe red packet might contain the space seeds. or adverbs to show degrees of possibility: perhaps, surely |
Writing complete texts |
Use of paragraphs to organise ideas.New paragraph for a shift in time, place or theme. |
Cohesion within a paragraph(using words such as then, after that, firstly) Link paragraphs using adverbials of time(eg later…) place (nearby…) and number (secondly…) |
Punctuation |
Inverted commas to indicate direct speech with a comma after the reporting clause.Mrs Daniels muttered, “Who has not sharpened their pencil into the bin?” Apostrophes for plural possession.Use of commas after fronted adverbials. |
Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.A word or phrase inserted (as an afterthought or explanation) in a sentence. Use of commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguityLet’s eat Grandma. Let’s eat, Grandma. |
Terminology |
Determiner:a car, the car, this car, those cars, every car Pronouns:I, me, you, he, my, they Possessive pronoun:mine, yours, his, hers, ours Adverbial:explains how, where, with whom or why something happened |
Noun, adjective, verbSuffix, prefixModal verbRelative pronoun(who, which, that) Relative clauseParenthesis, bracket, dashCohesion, ambiguity |
In addition to this, the full glossary published by the Dept of Educatio can be found here: Glossary