English
English Curriculum
121 topic summaries
Year Five – Grammar: Case 5, The Hidden Clause
Building Cohesion
Pupils learn that cohesion is the way a text holds together, using linking words within a paragraph and adverbials across paragraphs.
Age 11+Year Five – Grammar: Case 5, The Hidden Clause
Modal Verbs and Possibility
Pupils learn that modal verbs express degrees of possibility and necessity, from might and could to will and must.
Age 11+Year Five – Grammar: Case 5, The Hidden Clause
Parenthesis: Brackets, Dashes and Commas
Pupils learn that a parenthesis is extra information marked with brackets, dashes or commas, and that punctuation can remove ambiguity.
Age 11+Year Five – Grammar: Case 5, The Hidden Clause
Relative Clauses
Pupils learn that a relative clause adds extra information about a noun and usually begins with a relative pronoun, set off by commas when non-essential.
Age 11+Year One – Grammar & Punctuation
Capital Letters and Full Stops
Pupils learn that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, with spaces between words, and that names and the word I take capitals.
Age 7+Year One – Grammar & Punctuation
Joining Words with 'and'
Pupils learn to join two words or ideas with the word 'and' to make one sentence.
Age 7+
