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Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Medium Term Planning

Overview 2014-15

Saltburn Primary School

Policy

Policy Prepared By Caroline Chadwick Date: July 2014 Date To Be Reviewed …………………………………………………………..

Foundation Stage –Nursery Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

Autumn Children are encouraged to interact/talk to new adults and peers, forming new relationships.

Phonic phase 1. Opportunities for independent mark making. Shared reading books.

Spring Children are encouraged to speak in sentences, supported by adults.

Phonics Phase 1. Listening to sounds and matching to pictures. Opportunities for independent mark making. Shared reading books.

Summer Awareness of alliteration. Compound word blending e.g. sun + shine=sunshine. When reading stories encourage speaking and listening skills through questioning.

Writing own name with a capital letter Begin to know initial sounds of own name and familiar people and objects. Opportunities for independent mark making. Shared reading books.

Foundation Stage -‐Reception– Autumn term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

1 Welcome children to Reception. Nursery Rhymes. Time to Talk-‐ Speaking & listening scheme of work.

Name Writing. Shared reading books.

2 Time to Talk 3 Time to Talk Jolly Phonics 1 (See additional planning )

Practise spelling own name with a capital letter 4 Time to Talk Jolly Phonics 2 5 Time to Talk Jolly Phonics 3 6 Time to Talk Jolly Phonics 4 7 Time to Talk Jolly Phonics 5

Foundation Stage – Autumn term 2nd half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

1 Encourage children to write captions/labels with their pictures.

Jolly Phonics 6 2 Jolly Phonics 7 3 Jolly Phonics 8 4 Jolly Phonics 9 5 Jolly Phonics Recap

Letters & Sounds Games 6/7 Jolly Phonics Recap

Letters & Sounds Games

Foundation Stage – Spring term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

Wk 1 Shared Writing

Short descriptive sentences-‐ speaking, teacher scribing, pupils rereading & copy writing/independent writing

Action Words Set 1

2 Action Words Set 2 Introduce reading books & reading logs

3 Action Words Set 3 Introduce reading books & reading logs

4 Action Words Set 4 5 Action Words Set 5

6 Action Words Set 6


Foundation Stage – Spring term 2nd half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

1 Modelling writing /shared whole-‐class More independent sentences. Discuss and remind children about capital letters and full stops. Orally discuss sentence structure.

Action Words Set 7 2 Action Words Set 8 3 Action Words Set 9 4 Revision 5 Revision


Foundation Stage – Summer term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

1 Short descriptive sentence sometimes using a conjunction. Speaking, teacher scribing, pupils rereading & copy writing/independent writing

Practising reading and writing of Action Words. 2 3 4 5 6 Letters & Sounds Games

Foundation Stage – Summer term 2nd half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern

1 Short descriptive sentence sometimes using a conjunction.

Practising reading and writing of Action Words 2 3 4 5 Nouns – introduce the term and

identify different types of nouns Recap phonic phase 2 /3 sounds 45 key words (Action Words)

6 Adjectives– introduce the term and identify different types of adjectives

Recap phonic phase 2 /3 sounds 45 key words (Action Words)

7 Verbs– introduce the term and identify different types of verb

Naming and writing the letters of the alphabet-‐ sounds & names

Y1– Autumn term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spellings & Action Words 1 Recount -‐Connective sentences – time

connectives – yesterday, last night, an hour ago.. Introduce the term verb-‐ read, write and identify different verbs

Spellings – ff/ll/ss/zz Recap and revise Action Words Set 1

2 Recount-‐ Connective sentences – time connectives – yesterday, last night, an hour ago..

Spellings – the n sound spelt n before k: think, pink, link, sink, sank, tank, bank, sunk Recap & revise Action Words Set 2

3 Non Chronological Reports -‐Conjunction sentences – and, because, but

Spellings-‐ ai & ay vowel diagraphs – rain, train, say, stay Recap and revise Action Words Set 3

4 Non Chronological Reports -‐Conjunction sentences – and, because, but

Spellings – oi & oy vowel diagraphs-‐ oil, join, soil, toy, boy, annoy Recap and revise Action words Set 4

5 Narrative-‐ Short descriptive sentences-‐ use of adjectives to qualify the noun

Spellings-‐ ‘tch’ – catch, watch, hatch, patch, fetch… Recap and revise Action words Set 5

6 Narrative-‐Short descriptive sentences-‐ use of adjectives to qualify the noun

Spellings-‐ words ending in y-‐’ee’ – happy, funny, family, very, party Recap and revise Action words Set 6

7 Recap sentence types practised this half term

Recap & assess spelling patterns learned so far this half term Recap and revise Action words Set 7

Y1 – Autumn term 2nd half 1 Persuasion-‐ Question sentences

Pronouns – introduce the term and identify them in reading and writing

Spellings-‐ Spellings-‐ Division of syllables:-‐ thun/der, com/pu/ter, Recap and revise Action words Set 8

2 Persuasion –Question sentences Spellings –Division of syllables :-‐ pock/et, rabb/it, carr/ot Recap and revise Action words Set 9

3 Narrative-‐ Descriptive sentences – use of adjectives Use of adjectives to qualify the noun

Spellings – magic ‘e’ a-‐e Action Words

4 Narrative-‐ Descriptive sentences – use of adverbs to qualify the verb Identify different verbs and qualify them with adverbs

Spellings – magic ‘e’ i-‐e Action Words

5 Instructions-‐Imperative sentences-‐ ‘bossy’ imperative verbs & numbered bullet points

Spellings – magic ‘e’ o-‐e Action Words

6 Instructions –Imperative sentences-‐ ‘bossy’ imperative verbs & numbered bullet points

Naming and writing the letters of the alphabet-‐ sounds & names Action Words

7 Recap sentence types practised this half term

Recap & assess spelling patterns learned so far this half term

Y1– Spring term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern & Action Words 1 Explanation -‐ Conjunction sentences:-‐

and, but, so, because… Spellings – magic ‘e’ e-‐e

2 Narrative – connective sentences Spellings – magic ‘e’ u-‐e

3 Narrative-‐ short descriptive sentences-‐ adjectives to qualify the noun

Spellings-‐ ‘ea’ creating and ee sound – sea, dream, each, meat…

4 Recount-‐ Connective sentences ‘ir’ – girl, bird, shirt, first, third…

5 Recount – conjunction sentences Spellings – ‘ear’ – tear, fear, dear, beard, near…

6 Question sentences Recap Action Words

Y1– Spring term 2nd half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern & Action Words 1 Narrative-‐ short descriptive sentences –

adjectives Spellings -‐ ‘air’ – pair, stair, flair, pair, hair, fair Phonics recap – segment and blend words containing phonics phase 2-‐3 sounds – including nonsense words

2 Narrative – short descriptive sentences adverbs – extended noun phrases

Spellings-‐ Adding the prefix ‘un’-‐ unfair, undo, unlock, unhappy… Phonics recap – segment and blend words containing phonics phase 2-‐3 sounds – including nonsense words

3 Persuasion-‐ question sentences Spellings –ing words: -‐ blowing, snowing, hunting, buzzing, jumping… Phonics recap – segment and blend words containing phonics phase 2-‐3 sounds – including nonsense words

4 Persuasion-‐ introduce the term ‘noun’ identify the noun in the sentence, guess the noun I am describing,…

Spellings – ed words – hunted, jumped, stamped, buzzed, clapped… Phonics recap – segment and blend words containing phonics phase 2-‐3 sounds – including nonsense words

5 Non Chronological Reports-‐ conjunction sentences

Spellings – ‘er’ words – jumper, counter, drawer… Phonics recap – segment and blend words containing phonics phase 2-‐3 sounds – including nonsense words

Y 1– Summer term 1st half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern & Phonics development 1 Narrative-‐use of verbs/ powerful verbs Spellings – adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ to words –

acknowledge the different sounds achieved and the extra syllable produced

2 Recount –time connectives

Spellings-‐ adding ‘est’ – freshest, grandest, quickest, happiest, darkest…

3 Explanation – conjunction sentences:-‐so, because…

Spellings –‘ore’ – core, before, before, wore, shore, more

4 Explanation – Time connectives & conjunction sentences:-‐so, because…

Spellings – ‘are’ – dare, bare, fare, stare, share, scared…

5 Spellings – consonant spelling ‘ph’ and ‘wh’:-‐ dolphin, phonics, elephant, when, where, why, wheel, whilst..

6 Review & Assess

Yr 1– Summer term 2nd half Grammar & Punctuation Spelling Pattern & Phonics development 1 Poetry – adjectives – discuss use of the

comma Spellings ‘igh’

2 Poetry -‐ rhyme Spellings ‘au’-‐ author, dinosaur, August, astronaut,

3 Narrative – Time connectives Recap & highlight-‐ Capital letter, full stop, question mark, comma

Spelling – ‘ue-‐ glue, clue, true, rescue, blue, Tuesday

4 Narrative – adjectives & adverbs (description & detail) Recap & highlight-‐ Capital letter, full stop, question mark, comma

Spellings – compound words-‐ playground, blackberry, farmyard, football, bedroom…

5 Statement, exclamation, command, question sentences – reading, writing and understanding

Adding the prefix un: unhappy, unlock, unfair, unload, undo…

6 Statement, exclamation, command, question sentences – reading, writing and understanding

Spellings ‘ur’ hurt, turn, church, burn, burst, Thursday

7 Review & assess Common exception words-‐ select from:-‐ the, a, do, to, today, of, said, says, are, were, was, is, his, has, I, you, your, they, be, he, me, she, we, no, go, so, by, my, here, there, where, love, come, some, one, once, ask, friend, school, put, push, pull, full, house, our, and/or others, according to the programme used

Y2– Autumn Term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Recount-‐ Time connectives

Emphasise verb tense Spellings –soft ‘g’-‐ gem, magic, giant, giraffe, energy gigantic, generous…

2 Recount – short descriptive sentences Spellings ‘ge’ -‐ age, huge, change, village, bulge, charge…

3 Non chronological reports. Questions to the reader-‐ question marks

Spellings ‘dge’ badge, edge, fridge, fudge, bridge, dodge…

4 Non chronological reports-‐ conjunction sentences

‘Silent k and g’ – knock, know, knee, gnat, gnaw…

5 Narrative – Time connectives Spellings ’le’ – single, table, triangle, apple, little, middle…

6/7 Narrative-‐ Adjective & adverbs – descriptive sentences

Recap, review and assess prior learning (weeks 1-‐5)

Y2 Autumn Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Persuasion – question sentences Spellings :– the ‘r’ sound at the beginning of

words, spelt wr – wrong, write, wrap, wrote, written…

2 Persuasion – conjunction sentences Spellings – words ending in ‘il’: – fossil, pencil, nostril…

3 Narrative – connective sentences Story tense:-‐ past, present, future

The ‘i’ sound spelt with a y :– fly, try, cry, reply, July, dry, copy…

4 Narrative – descriptive sentences-‐ use of adventurous adjectives

Adding es to nouns and verbs ending in y :– flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries..

5 Instructions –imperative sentences-‐ imperative verbs Numbered bullet points

Adding ed, ing, er and est to a root word :– copied, copier, happier, happiest, cried, replied

6/7 Instructions -‐ imperative sentences-‐ imperative verbs


Y2– Spring Term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Explanation – connective sentences-‐

listing & explaining:-‐ first of all, finally, after much thought, I believe that…

The s sound spelt c before e, I and y:-‐ ice race, cell, city, fancy…

2 Narrative-‐ speech sentences-‐speech marks-‐ using and punctuating direct speech

Words ending in al – capital, hospital, pedal, metal, animal…

3 Narrative-‐speech sentences-‐speech mark-‐ using and punctuating direct speech

The possessive apostrophe – Harry’s, the girl’s, the child’s, the man’s, Ben’s

4 Recount-‐connective sentences –time connectives-‐ prior, following and during

Words ending in ‘el’ :-‐ camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel…

5 Recount -‐ connective sentences-‐ in addition (reinforcing): besides, one reason is, a further point, also, many people think…

Words ending in ‘tion’:-‐ station, section, reflection, fiction, nation, selection…

6 Recap, review and assess prior learning (weeks 1-‐5)

Y2– Spring Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Narrative-‐ list sentences -‐descriptive

sentences, using adjectives Spellings-‐ the ‘i:’ sound spelt-‐ ‘ey’-‐ donkey, key, money, chimney, valley…

2 Narrative – Short sharp sentences for impact

Spellings – contractions – using an apostrophe (Kung Fu punctuation) :– can’t, don’t, hasn’t, it’s, I’ll, couldn’t…

3 Persuasion – question sentences-‐question marks

Spellings – ‘or’ is usually spelt as a -‐ a followed by l or ll:-‐ ball, tall, call, walk, talk, always…

4 Persuasion-‐ descriptive sentences-‐ list sentences – using commas within a list

Homophones :-‐ there/their/they’re, hear/here, see/sea, to/too/two, be/bee, knight/night, site/sight

5 Non-‐chronological reports-‐ headings, sub headings, diagrams, labels Question sentences – question subheadings

Spellings – common words-‐ Months of the year

Y2 end of year assessments to take place during the summer term 1st half-‐ planning may need to be modified accordingly.

Y 2– Summer Term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Narrative – descriptive sentences –

using commas for listing – commas Adding the endings –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in vowel-‐letter–consonant-‐letter–e:-‐ hiking, hiked, hiker, nicer, nicest, shiny

2 Recount –before and after sentences Use of time connectives

The /�/ sound spelt o:-‐ other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday

3 Explanation– connective sentences-‐ cause and effect connectives

Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter The last consonant letter of the root word is doubled to keep the /æ/, /�/, /�/, /�/ and /�/ sound (i.e. to keep the vowel ‘short’).

Exception: The letter ‘x’ is never doubled: mixing, mixed, boxer, sixes. patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder, saddest, fatter, fattest, runner, runny

4 Explanation – connective sentences-‐ cause and effect connectives

The /�/ sound spelt a after w and qu a is the most common spelling for the /�/ (“hot”) sound after w and qu. :-‐ want, watch, wander, quantity, squash

5 Application of Skills – speech sentences The /�:/ sound spelt or after w Very few words spell the /�:/ sound (“burn”) this way. word, work, worm, world, worth

6/7 Application of Skills – question sentences


Yr 2– Summer Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Poetry – using the comma-‐(,) The /�:/ sound spelt ar after w

Very few words spell the /�:/ sound (“or”) this way. war, warm, towards

2 Poetry-‐ use of adjectives – descriptive phrases

Common exception words:-‐ door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children

3 Narrative – short, sharp sentences – using an exclamation mark –(!)

Common exception words-‐ wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told

4 Narrative-‐ descriptive sentences, using a comma to separate out items in a list

Homophones-‐ blue/blew, sun/son, bear/bare, loan/lone, groan, grown, road/rode…

5 Application of Skills – short sharp sentences

The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful and –less If a suffix starts with a consonant letter, it is added straight on to most root words without any change to the last letter of those words.

Exceptions:

(1) argument

(2) root words ending in a consonant letter followed by y – see above. enjoyment, sadness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness (plain + ness)

6 Review sentence types Common exception words-‐ every, everybody, even, great, break, steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past

7 Review sentence types Common exception words-‐ father, class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve

Y3– Autumn Term 1st half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Recount-‐ identifying phrases and

clauses Proper nouns – days of the week, months of the year, towns, countries, names …

2 Recount Time connectives Conjunctions

Prefixes-‐ dis disappoint, disagree, disobey

3 Instructions Bullet points Imperative verbs Formal language

Prefixes-‐mis misbehave, mislead, misspell (mis + spell)

4 Instructions-‐ specific word use, avoidance of adjectives & adverbs

Prefixes-‐ in inactive, incorrect

5 Narrative Use of speech marks look for examples of direct speech and use of speech marks

Prefixes-‐ auto Automatic, automotive, automobile, autograph

6 Narrative-‐ synonyms, using a thesaurus Adventurous vocabulary word choices

Prefixes-‐ super Supermarket, superman, superstar..

7 Poetry-‐ use commas to separate items or ideas in a list


3 Autumn Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Persuasion

Formal & impersonal style Conjunctions

The suffix –ation The suffix –ation is added to verbs to form nouns. The rules already learnt still apply. :-‐ information, adoration, sensation, preparation, admiration

2 Persuasion Technical vocabulary Rhetorical questions

The suffix –ous The ending sounding like /�əә/ is always spelt –sure.

The ending sounding like /t�əә/ is often spelt –ture, but check that the word is not a root word ending in (t)ch with an er ending, e.g. teacher, catcher, richer, stretcher. measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure

creature, furniture, picture, nature, adventure

3 Narrative-‐ descriptive list sentences-‐ use of the comma to separate items in a list

Adventurous adjectives-‐ amazing, beautiful, weak, worst, tragic, tricky, shiny, sour, powerful, neglected

4 Narrative-‐ extra information sentences – subordinate clauses

Endings which sound like /�əәn/, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian Strictly speaking, the endings are –ion and –ian. Clues about whether to put t, s, ss or c before these endings often come from the last letter or letters of the root word.

–tion is the most common spelling. It is used if the root word ends in t (invent) or te (hesitate).

invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion

5 Non chronological reports-‐ use of verbs in the 1st/2nd/3rd person

–ssion is used if the root word ends in ss or –mit.

–sion is used if the root word ends in d or se.

expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission

expansion, extension, comprehension, tension

6 Non chronological reports-‐ use of questions as a sub heading subject verb agreement

Endings which sound like /�əәn/ If the ending sounds like /�əәn/, it is spelt as –sion. division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television

7 Application of skills Recap, review and assess prior learning (weeks 1-‐6)

Y3– Spring Term 1st half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Explanation

Third person Technical vocabulary

Suffix –cian is used if the root word ends in c or cs. musician, electrician, magician, politician, mathematician

2 Narrative List sentences

Revise days of the week and months of the year

3 Narrative Prepositions (sentences)

Homophones or near-‐homophones accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break, fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, here/hear, heel/heal/he’ll, knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle, missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign, scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s

4 Recount Past tense verbs Sequential connectives

Words with endings sounding like /�əә/ or /t�əә/ The ending sounding like /�əә/ is always spelt –sure.

:-‐ measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure

5 Recount 1st, 2nd, 3rd person

Words with endings sounding like /�əә/ or /t�əә/ The ending sounding like /t�əә/ is often spelt –ture, but check that the word is not a root word ending in (t)ch with an er ending,

e.g. teacher, catcher, richer, stretcher. creature, furniture, picture, nature, adventure

6 Application of skills Recap & revise spelling patterns from wks 1-‐5

Y3– Spring Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Narrative-‐ speech sentences

Speech marks/inverted commas-‐ punctuation

Synonyms – replied, shrieked, called, moaned, shouted, bellowed, answered, cried, whispered, questioned…

2 Narrative-‐ adverb sentences Suffix ly-‐ happily, angrily, gratefully, carelessly, positively,…

3 Persuasion – questions-‐ rhetorical questions

The I sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words_ gym, Egypt, gymnastics, mystery, myth, pyramid

4 Persuasion-‐ cause & effect connectives However, although, consequently, therefore, in addition, because, resulting, furthermore

5 Non chronological reports-‐extra information sentences – comma,

Spellings – words written ‘ou’ but pronounced ‘u’-‐ young, country, touch, double, trouble,

subordinate clause should, could, would, ravenous, anxious

Y 3– Summer Term 1st half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Poetry-‐ distinguish between rhyming

and non-‐rhyming poetry and comment on impact

Prefix -‐ re– means ‘again’ or ‘back’.

re–: redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate

2 Narrative As and When clauses

Prefix -‐ inter– means ‘between’ or ‘among’.

inter–: interact, intercity, international, interrelated (inter + related)

3 Recount Adverbs

Prefix -‐ sub– means ‘under’.

sub–: subdivide, subheading, submarine, submerge

4 Explanation Sequencing connectives Prepositions

Prefix -‐Before a root word starting with r, in– becomes ir–.

irregular, irrelevant, irresponsible

5 Explanation Technical vocabulary –use of a dictionary Glossaries


6 Non-‐chronological reports bullet points Diagrams

Technical vocabulary – to support the NCR

Yr 3– Summer Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Discussion – use of pronouns Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in

origin) science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent

2 Discussion – apostrophe for possession Possessive apostrophe with plural words The apostrophe is placed after the plural form of the word; –s is not added if the plural already ends in –s, but is added if the plural does not end in –s (i.e. is an irregular plural – e.g. children’s). girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s

(Note: singular proper nouns ending in an s use the ’s suffix e.g. Cyprus’s population.)

3 Narrative – verb tense – past/present/future tenses

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ accident(ally), actual(ly), address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath, breathe, build, business,

4 Poetry-‐ identifying different patterns of rhyme and verse in poetry:-‐ choruses, rhyming couplets, alternative lines rhyming

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ calendar, caught, centre, century, certain , circle, complete , consider, continue, decide, describe, different,

5 Revise a range of sentence types: As, if, when, ing, when, adverb etc

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ difficult, disappear, early, earth, eight/eighth, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme,

6 Subordinate clauses – use of the comma to separate main and subordinate clauses

A selection of spellings given to revise spelling patterns learned summer term 2nd half

7 Review punctuation Words from the Y3/4 spelling list

Y4– Autumn term 1st half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spellings 1 Recount – selecting appropriate

pronoun/noun to avoid ambiguity and repetition

Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch (Greek in origin) scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character

2 Recount-‐ fronted adverbials Words with the /�/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin) chef, chalet, machine, brochure

3 Instructions – imperative verbs Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que (French in origin) league, tongue, antique, unique

4 Instructions – adverb sentences Words with the /e�/ sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey

5 Narrative –constructing adjectival phrases

Possessive apostrophe with plural words girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s

(Note: singular proper nouns ending in an s use the ’s suffix e.g. Cyprus’s population.)

6 Narrative –preposition sentences Adventurous adjectives:-‐ bold, caring, neglected, mean, messy, lazy, lonely, icy, hairy, gross

7 Poetry – understanding the figurative language in poetry and prose; compare poetic phrasing with narrative/descriptive examples

Days of the week/months of the year

Y4– Autumn term 2nd half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spellings 1 Persuasion – address the reader with a

question – Are you aware…, Do you realise…


2 Persuasion – use of the exclamation mark for impact

Revise ‘igh’ sound-‐ nightmare, tightening, brightest, flightless, lightening, higher…

3 Narrative-‐ comparing adjectives on a range of scale of intensity

Adventurous adjectives:-‐ aggressive, angelic, astonishing, cavernous, comfortable, dangerous, elaborate, gruesome, humongous, immaculate

4 Narrative-‐ adverb sentences Adventurous adverbs:-‐quickly, steadily, carefully, terrifyingly, cautiously, timidly, fluidly, stealthily, powerfully, immediately…

5 Non chronological reports – when and as clauses

Revise ‘ea’ sound: creamiest, appealing, beanbag, speaking, leader, cleanest, concealed, increase, nearest, peaches

6 Non chronological reports– technical vocabulary & use of a dictionary

Revise the a-‐e sound (spilt digraph): suitcase, replace, skate, trace, waste, windowpane, enrage…

7 Application of skills Revision of the half terms spelling patterns and sounds

Y4– Spring Term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings

1 Explanation Causal connectives

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ History, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material

2 Narrative Use of the ellipse

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ medicine, mention, minute , natural, naughty, notice, occasion(ally), often , opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar

3 Narrative -‐ if, before and after clauses Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ Perhaps, popular, position, possess(ion), possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter, question

4 Recount – time connectives Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ Recent, regular, reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, straight, strange, strength

5 Recount – while clause – an alternative to an as clause

Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐ Suppose, surprise, therefore, though/although, thought, thorough, various, weight, woman, women

6 Application of skills Common words – form the Y3/4 word list:-‐

famous, favourite, February, forward(s), fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height

Y4– Spring Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Narrative – extra information sentences

Identifying the main and subordinate clauses

Adventurous adjectives:-‐ quaint, remarkable, repulsive, rewarding, shimmering, shy, secret, spectacular, striking, sympathetic

2 Narrative – preposition sentences Adventurous adjectives:-‐ talkative, tame, tempting, thoughtful, thunderous, tremendous, unacceptable, unknown, unsightly, villainous

3 Persuasion – although clause Months of the year 4 Persuasion -‐ use of questions to make

the reader think Apostrophe for omission – contraction

5 Non Chronological Reports-‐ when clause

Revise im and dis prefixes

Y4– Summer Term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Poetry-‐ use of the comma to separate

phrases/clauses Words ending -‐ ‘ure’ sound :-‐ sure, pure creature, treasure, enclosure, pleasure, furniture, picture, adventure, nature

2 Narrative -‐ ing sentences Adventurous adjectives:-‐ impossible, innocent, incredible, irresponsible, joyous, jubilant, kind-‐hearted, knowledgeable, luxurious, magnificent

3 Recount-‐ time connectives Common tricky words: why, who, February, eight, writing, … teachers to devise their own lists based on common errors

4 Explanation – time connectives Explanation connective phrases:-‐ for instance, after much thought, we decided, I believe, in other words…

5 Explanation -‐ cause and effect connectives

Cause and effect connectives:-‐ therefore, consequently, resulting, because, reason, when…

6 Non chronological reports-‐ use of a colon at the start of a list The great White shark will eat a variety of foods including: fish, turtles, dolphin, squid and sea lion

Revise ‘tion’ words : invention, injection, inception, hesitation, completion, action, description, nation, relation, publication, vacation, translation

Y4– Summer Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Discussion-‐ causal connectives Opposition connectives:-‐ however,

nevertheless, instead, although, disagree, whereas …

2 Discussion-‐ emphasising connectives Reinforcing connectives :-‐ besides, anyway, furthermore, also, moreover, addition,

3 Narrative –‘ing’ sentences Adventurous adjectives:-‐ mammoth, masculine, motionless, miniature, mountainous, naughty, optimistic, outrageous, perfumed, piercing

Narrative-‐revise sentence types Wh words (revision) : why, white, whistling, wheeze, whether, whirlpool, whiskers, whale, whimper, whenever

4 Poetry – synonyms Test 3/4 words from the list 5 Poetry-‐revise word types Test ¾ words from the list 6/7 Application of skills Test Y3/4 words from the list

Y5– Autumn term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Recount

Identifying phrases & clauses Words ending in cious : conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious

2 Recount Determiners

Words ending in tious : ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious

3 Non Chronological Reports Using brackets

Words ending in cial – official, special, artificial, beneficial, commercial, crucial, facial, financial, glacial, judicial, prejudicial, provincial, racial sacrificial, social, superficial

4 Non Chronological Reports Using the hyphen

Words ending tial: partial, confidential, essential circumstantial confidential consequential credential deferential impartial influential initial martial* nuptial

5 Narrative Extra information sentences-‐ Spilt main clauses

Words ending in ant: observant, expectant, hesitant, tolerant

6 Narrative Variety of sentence types:-‐ as, ing, preposition

Words ending in ible: The –ible ending is common if a complete root word can’t be heard before it but it also sometimes occurs when a complete word can be heard (e.g. sensible).

7 Poetry

Ambiguity Words ending in able: dependable, comfortable, understandable, reasonable, enjoyable, reliable The –able ending is far more common than the –ible ending.

If the –able ending is added to a word ending in –ce or –ge, the e after the c or g must be kept as those letters would otherwise have their ‘hard’ sounds (as in cap and gap) before the a of the –able ending.

The –able ending is usually but not always used if a complete root word can be heard before it, even if there is no related word ending in –ation. The first five examples opposite are obvious; in reliable, the complete word rely is heard, but the y changes to i in accordance with the rule.

Y5– Autumn term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Persuasion

Non-‐standard dialect words Consistency of tense and subject

Words ending in ent: -‐confident, innocent, decent, frequent…. Use –ent and –ence/–ency after soft c (/s/ sound), soft g (/d�/ sound) and qu, or if there is a related word with a clear /�/ sound in the right position.

2 Persuasion Modal verbs

Modal verbs-‐ certain, probable, possible, could, would, should, might…

3 Narrative Adverbs

Adverbs-‐ carefully, cautiously, hesitantly, patiently, clumsily, slightly, dangerously, terrifyingly, awkwardly, diligently, frantically, tediously

4 Narrative Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun

Silent letters: island, doubt, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight… Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/, and the gh used to represent the sound that ‘ch’ now represents in the Scottish word loch.

5 Instructions Use of the colon Bullet points

Use of the hyphen – co-‐ordinate, re-‐enter, co-‐operate, co-‐own Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one.

6 Instructions Avoidance of double negatives

Words containing the letter string_ ough :-‐ ought, bought, thought, nought, brought, fought, rough, tough, enough

cough

though, although, dough

through

thorough, borough

plough

ough is one of the trickiest spellings in English – it can be used to spell a number of different sounds.

7 Application of skills Review the spellings already taught this half term

Y5– Spring term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Explanation

Formal & impersonal style Causal connectives

Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer referring, referred, referral, preferring, preferred, transferring, transferred

reference, referee, preference, transference The r is doubled if the –fer is still stressed when the ending is added.

The r is not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed.

2 Narrative Understanding the difference between direct and reported speech

Synonyms for said :-‐ bellowed , complained, demanded , disagreed ,exclaimed , growled grumbled , hissed , howled , quipped , retorted screamed , screeched , shrieked

3 Narrative Verb tense Using the semi colon

Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling The ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies to words where the sound spelt by ei is /i:/.

Exceptions: protein, caffeine, seize (and either and neither if pronounced with an initial /i:/ sound).

4 Recount Auxiliary verbs

Homophones: advice/advise, device/devise, licence/license, practice/practise, prophecy/prophesy

In these pairs of words, nouns end –ce and verbs end –se. Advice and advise provide a useful clue as the word advise (verb) is pronounced with a /z/ sound – which could not be spelt c.

5 Recount Classifying 1st, 2nd 3rd person

Homophones:-‐ eligible, illegible, eliminate, illuminate , farther, father, guessed, guest, heard, herd

6 Application of skills Assess and review spellings learned this half term

Y5– Spring term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Narrative

Identifying statements, commands and question sentences

Words ending in ance :– dance, trance, attendance, enhance, nonchalance, appearance, reliance, resistance, dominance, compliance

2 Narrative Fronted adverbials

Words ending in ly (Y3/4 revision) :-‐ apologetically, amazingly, adversely, carelessly, coarsely, disapprovingly, fabulously, grudgingly, immaturely, inconceivably, momentously

3 Persuasion – Apostrophes for possession

Revision Y3/4 words-‐ sion words : collision, conclusion, division, conversion, cohesion, occasion, revision, pension, omission, mansion

4 Persuasion Apostrophes for contraction

Words ending in ence :-‐ audience, absence, affluence, circumference, existence, licence, offence, persistence, re-‐emergence, sentence

5 Non Chorological Reports Prepositions

Y3/4 revision-‐ ssion word ending-‐ expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission

Y5– Summer term 1st half Wk Grammar & punctuation Spelling pattern 1 Poetry

Homophones Lead, lead, morning, mourning, past, passed, precede, proceed, principal, principle,

2 Narrative Active and passive sentences

Topic based technical vocabulary – refer to medium term planning

3 Recount Past participles

Revision (Y3/4 words) – ous words:-‐ ambitious, carnivorous, delirious, ferocious, glamorous, incredulous, numerous, scrumptious, righteous, subconscious

4 Explanation Auxiliary verbs

Hard c, soft c words(revision) :-‐ concede, concession, concert, concentrate, conception, concertedly, conceptual, concierge, concise, conscience

5 Explanation Addition connectives

‘ph’ words-‐ (revision) alphabet, amphibian, apostrophe, autograph, biography, decipher, dolphin, geography, photograph, pharmaceutical

6 Non Chronological Reports use of questions

Prefix (revision) inter– means ‘between’ or ‘among’: interaction, intercede, interfere, interim, interject, interlude, intermediate, international, interregnum, intervene…

Y5– Summer Term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation 1 Discussion

Synonyms Revise prefix dis The prefix dis has a negative meaning: disable, disagree, disadvantage, disallow, disarrange, disapprove, disbelieve, discomfort

2 Discussion Antonyms

Revise prefix-‐ trans:-‐ transgression, translucent, transact, transcontinental, transcultural, transfix, transformation, translation, transparent, transportation

3 Narrative Parenthesis

Revise the prefix-‐ mis The prefix mis has a negative meaning. misconception, misadventure, misconstrue, misfortune, mishap, misnomer, misrepresent, mistrial

4 Poetry Powerful verbs Ellipses

Powerful verbs-‐ alternatives to walked and spoke:-‐ whispered, mentioned, whined, shouted, cried, exclaimed shuffled, meandered, stomped, marched, tiptoed, sashayed

5 Identifying the subordinate clause Prefix :-‐ circ:-‐ circulate, circle, circulation, circulatory, circular, semicircle, circumference, circumnavigate, circumstantial,

6 Paragraphing Revision wk – spelling patterns from across the year-‐ staff to select, appropriate to the teaching group

7 Collective nouns Revision wk – spelling patterns from across the year

Y6– Autumn term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Recount

Time connectives Extra information sentences

Topic based spellings-‐ refer to topic planning

2 Recount Use of the semi-‐colon, colon and dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses

Words ending in cial –revision– official, special, artificial, beneficial, commercial, crucial, facial, financial, glacial, judicial, prejudicial, provincial, racial sacrificial, social, superficial

3 Non Chronological Reports Formal and informal speech

‘sure’ words (revision) – treasure, pleasure, closure, disclosure, displeasure, unsure, exposure, leisure, reassure, unsure

4 Non chronological Reports Active and passive sentences

‘ture’ words-‐ (revision) picture, mixture, acupuncture, caricature, creature, denture, fixture, feature, furniture, manufacture

5 Narrative Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]

Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) (revision):-‐ scenery, science, descend, scissors, crescent, fascinate, scented, ascend, scientist, scimitar

6 Narrative Similes, metaphors & personification

Endings which sound like /�əәs/ spelt –cious (revision) : unconscious, suspicious, vicious, spacious, gracious, subconscious, ferocious , malicious, luscious, atrocious

7 Poetry Use of powerful verbs and adjectives Synonyms

Endings which sound like /�əәs/ spelt –tious (revision) : surreptitious, superstitious, scrumptious, nutritious, overambitious, infectious, bumptious, contentious,

conscientious, fractious

Y6– Autumn term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Persuasion

Verb inflections Verbs (revision):-‐ streamed; spouted; glowed; rocked; blazed; swayed crashing; retreating; fluttered; engulfed; floated; howled; flashed; circled; whistled; swiveled; staggered; wheeling; hovered; glided;

2 Persuasion Using expanded noun phrases

Using the prefix anti (revision): antiseptic, antibiotic, anticlockwise, anti-‐venom, antidote, antibacterial, anticlimax, antisocial, anti-‐inflammatory, antihero

3 Narrative Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

Adventurous adjectives:-‐ talkative, torturous, tempting, thoughtful, thunderous, tremendous, unacceptable, unknown, unsightly, villainous

4 Narrative Plurals –apostrophe for possession

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word) (revision) honest, ghost, knead, knife, knight, would, yolk, pneumonia, psychology, receipt

5 Narrative Active and passive

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word) (revision): aisle, island, debris, asthma, ballet, castle, gourmet, colleague, guess, tongue

6 Poetry Determiners

Homophones and other words that are often confused

7 Application of skills Revise spelling from across the half term – teacher to select own word list

Y6– Spring term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Narrative

using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely


2 Narrative-‐ subordinate clause to add detail

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient , apparent , appreciate , attached

3 Explanation using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing

Use of the hyphen (revision) Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one:-‐ co-‐ordinate, re-‐enter, co-‐operate, co-‐own

4 Explanation Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ available, average, awkward , bargain, bruise, category , cemetery, committee, communicate, community

5 Discussion Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs [for example, perhaps, surely] or modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must]


6 Discussion Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity


7 Assess and review

Y6– Spring term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Colons & bullet points Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ competition,

conscience*, conscious*, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise (critic + ise), curiosity, definite, desperate

2 Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ determined, develop, dictionary , disastrous, embarrass , environment , equip (–ped, –ment), especially, exaggerate , excellent

3 Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ existence, explanation, familiar, foreign , forty, frequently, government , guarantee , harass, hindrance

4 Types of verbs Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ identity, immediate(ly), individual, interfere, interrupt , language , leisure, lightning , marvellous, mischievous

5 Identifying the main and subordinate clauses within sentences

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance , occupy, occur,

Y6– Summer term 2nd half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1 Standard English-‐ formal writing Revise spelling patterns through games – countdown,

hangman, crosswords, anagrams … http://resources.woodlands-‐junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html http://www.wordplays.com/ http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/subject/word-‐games/

2 Standard English-‐ formal writing 3 Poetry – use of powerful adjectives

and adverbs 4 Poetry – use of powerful adjectives

and adverbs 5 Narrative – review all sentence

types 6 Narrative – review all sentence

types

7 Application of skills

opportunity, parliament , persuade, physical

Y6– Summer term 1st half Wk Grammar & Punctuation Spellings 1

Relative clauses-‐ beginning with who, which, where, why, whose, that, or an omitted relative noun


2 Auxiliary verbs Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, restaurant

3 Determiners Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ rhyme, rhythm ,

sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, sincere(ly), soldier, stomach, sufficient, suggest

4 Homograph – words that look exactly the same when written : bear (can’t bear to look at it), bear (animal)/ sow (sowing seeds) / sow (female pig)

Y5/6 spelling list words:-‐ symbol, system, temperature, thorough, twelfth, variety, vegetable, vehicle, yacht

5 Participles Verbs in English have two participles, called “present participle” (e.g. walking, taking) and “past participle” (e.g. walked, taken).

Unfortunately, these terms can be confusing to learners, because:

• they don’t necessarily have anything to do with present or past time

“past participles” are also used as passives.

Revise spelling patterns through games – countdown, hangman, crosswords … http://resources.woodlands-‐junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html http://www.wordplays.com/

6 Revision of sentence types – play team games & award points

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