Curriculum Objectives

• Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter / Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’ / Introduction to capital letters to demarcate sentences / Terminology for pupils: letter / Terminology for pupils: capital letter
• 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: 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
• Learn how to use: Co-ordination (using or, and, or but) / Co-ordination (using or, and, but)
• Learn how to use: Subordination (using when, if, that, or because) / Subordination (using when, if, that, because) / Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although
• Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman] / Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in English Appendix 1) / Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives / Terminology for pupils: compound / Terminology for pupils: suffix
• Use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs / Terminology for pupils: adverb
• Terminology for pupils: verb

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