Curriculum Objectives

• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: full stops / Use of full stops to demarcate sentences
• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: capital letters / Use of capital letters to demarcate sentences
• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: exclamation marks / Use of exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: question marks / Use of question marks to demarcate sentences
• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: commas for lists / Commas to separate items in a list / Terminology for pupils: comma
• Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: apostrophes for contracted forms and apostrophes for the possessive (singular) / Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name] / Terminology for pupils: apostrophe
• Terminology for pupils: subordinate clause
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense / Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past [for example, He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play]
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using conjunctions to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because] / Terminology for pupils: conjunction
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using adverbs to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore]
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using prepositions to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of] / Terminology for pupils: preposition
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition / Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition / Terminology for pupils: pronoun
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using fronted adverbials / Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using commas after fronted adverbials / Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.] / Use commas after fronted adverbials
• Indicate grammatical and other features by: Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns / The grammatical difference between plural and possessive –s / Apostrophes to mark plural possession [for example, the girl’s name, the girls’ names]
• Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using and punctuating direct speech / Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech [for example, a comma after the reporting clause; end punctuation within inverted commas: The conductor shouted, "Sit down!"]
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility / Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must] / Terminology for pupils: modal verb
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility / Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs [for example, perhaps, surely]
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (ie omitted) relative pronoun / Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun / Terminology for pupils: relative clause
• Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing / Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity / Terminology for pupils: ambiguity
• Indicate grammatical and other features by: Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis / Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis / Terminology for pupils: parenthesis / Terminology for pupils: bracket / Terminology for pupils: dash
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Recognising vocabulary and structures that is appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
• Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence / Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence [for example, I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken (by me)] / Terminology for pupils: active / Terminology for pupils: passive

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