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: commas for lists / Commas to separate items in a list / Terminology for pupils: comma
• Understand and use sentences with different forms: exclamation / How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a exclamation / Terminology for pupils: exclamation
• Learn how to use: Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly] / Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon] / Terminology for pupils: noun phrase
• 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
• Terminology for pupils: subordinate clause
• 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
• Use the forms a or an according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel [for example, a rock, an open box] / Terminology for pupils: consonant / Terminology for pupils: consonant letter / Terminology for pupils: vowel / Terminology for pupils: vowel letter
• Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech / Terminology for pupils: direct speech / Terminology for pupils: inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
• Terminology for pupils: clause

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