Year 5 & 6
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Spelling
Pupils will be taught to:
- Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
- Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]
- Continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
- Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically, as listed in English appendix 1
- Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
- Use the first 3 or 4 letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
- Use a thesaurus
Handwriting and presentation
Pupils will be taught to:
- Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed by:
- Choose which shape of a letter to use when given choices and decide whether or not to join specific letters
- Choose the writing implement that is best suited for a task
Writing - composition
Pupils will be taught to:
- Plan their writing by:
- Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
- Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
- In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed
- Draft and write by:
- Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
- In narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
- Précising longer passages
- Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
- Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader [for example, headings, bullet points, underlining]
- Evaluate and edit by:
- Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
- Proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
- Ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
- Ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural, distinguishing between the language of speech and writing and choosing the appropriate register
- Proofread for spelling and punctuation errors
- Perform their own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume, and movement so that meaning is clear
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Pupils will be taught to:
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:
- Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
- Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
- Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
- Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
- Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
- Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (ie omitted) relative pronoun
- Learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English appendix 2
- Indicate grammatical and other features by:
- Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
- Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
- Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
- Using semicolons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
- Using a colon to introduce a list
- Punctuating bullet points consistently
- Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading