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Expectations in English
All year groups have heightened expectations
End of year 2Punctuation-• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks, and
exclamation marks.Grammar and spelling terminology-• Noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation,
command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense- past and present, apostrophe, comma
End of year 3Punctuation-• All of year 2 elements and inverted commas to punctuate
direct speechSpelling and Grammar terminology-• Preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause,
subordinate clause, direct speech, consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter, inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
• End of year 4Punctuation-
Inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech, apostrophes to mark plural possession ( the girl’s name, the girls’ name), use of commas after fronted adverbials (Before we begin, make sure you have a pencil)
Spelling and Grammar terminology-Determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, adverbial, plural, possessive, standard English
End of year 5-Punctuation-• Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis, use of
commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.Spelling and Grammar terminology-• Modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis,
bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity, converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes, verb prefixes
End of year 6-Punctuation-• Semi colon, colon and dash to mark boundary between
independent clauses ( It’s raining; I’m fed up),use of colon to introduce a list and semi-colons within a list, hyphens to avoid ambiguity ( man eating shark/ man-eating shark)
Spelling and Grammar terminology-• Subject, object, active, passive, synonym, antonym, ellipsis,
hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points
Spelling expectationsWord lists for years 3 and 4-accidentallybusinessdisappearincreaseknowledgeoccasionallyPossessionQuestionSentenceSeparatealthough
Word lists for years 5 and 6-accommodateachieveconscienceconvenienceexaggerate frequentlyguaranteeMischievousnecessaryparliamenttwelfth
Reading expectations• Reading stamina- end of year 6 test expects at least 90 words
a minute.
• Reading comprehension- inference- hidden meaning
• Talking about reading is key.
Quality Marking and proving targets in English