Chapter library

Chapter 1: Adverbials: words that say when, where or how

• Can explain that an adverbial tells us when, where or how something happens, and sort adverbials into these groups

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 2: Fronted adverbials: putting when, where or how at the front

• Can spot a fronted adverbial and move when, where or how words to the start of a sentence

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 3: Commas after fronted adverbials

• Can put a comma straight after a fronted adverbial

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 4: Writing sentences with fronted adverbials and commas

• Can write sentences that start with a fronted adverbial followed by a comma

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 5: Word jobs: determiner, pronoun and possessive pronoun

• Can spot determiners, pronouns and possessive pronouns in a sentence

Year 4 english

Chapter 1: Hyphens to avoid ambiguity: man-eating shark or man eating shark?

• Can use a hyphen to join two words that describe a noun together, such as man-eating shark, so the meaning is clear

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 2: Hyphens with prefixes to avoid ambiguity: re-cover or recover?

• Can choose between words like re-cover and recover, or re-sign and resign, by thinking about what each one means

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 3: Bullet points to list information: a lead-in line and a colon

• Can turn information into a bullet-point list with a lead-in line that ends in a colon

Year 6 english

Chapter 4: Punctuating bullet points consistently: capital letters and full stops

• Can punctuate bullet points consistently, so every bullet starts and ends the same way: short notes in lower case with no full stops, or full sentences with capital letters and full stops

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 5: Putting it together: hyphens and bullet points in a leaflet

• Can choose between words like re-cover and recover, or re-sign and resign, by thinking about what each one means
• Can punctuate bullet points consistently, so every bullet starts and ends the same way: short notes in lower case with no full stops, or full sentences with capital letters and full stops
• Can turn information into a bullet-point list with a lead-in line that ends in a colon

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 1: What is a modal verb? Helper verbs that show how likely

• Can say what a modal verb is and find it in a sentence, including at the start of a question

Year 5 english Year 5 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: Might, should, will, must: ordering modal verbs by possibility

• Can order modal verbs such as might, should, will and must from possible to likely to certain

Year 5 english Years 5–6 english Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Adverbs of possibility: perhaps, maybe, probably, surely

• Can spot adverbs of possibility such as perhaps, probably, surely and definitely and order them by how likely they are

Year 5 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Modal verbs and adverbs together: showing degrees of possibility

• Can choose and write modal verbs and adverbs to show exactly how likely something is

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english

Chapter 1: Nouns: naming words and compound nouns

• Can spot nouns, the naming words for people, places, animals and things, and join two words to make a compound noun like sunflower

Year 2 english

Chapter 2: Verbs: doing words in the present and past tense

• Can spot verbs, the doing words, and tell whether they are in the present tense or the past tense

Year 2 english

Chapter 3: Adjectives: describing words, noun phrases and the suffixes -ful and -less

• Can spot adjectives, the describing words, use them to build noun phrases and make adjectives with -ful and -less

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 4: Adverbs: how a verb is done, with the suffix -ly

• Can spot adverbs that tell us how a verb is done, and turn adjectives into adverbs by adding -ly

Year 2 english

Chapter 5: Word jobs: naming nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in our writing

• Can name each word's job in a sentence and use the words noun, verb, adjective and adverb to talk about writing

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 1: What is parenthesis? Adding extra information to a sentence

• Can find the extra information (parenthesis) in a sentence and check the sentence still makes sense without it

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 2: Brackets: adding extra information with a pair of brackets

• Can put a pair of brackets or a pair of dashes around extra information in a sentence

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Dashes: adding extra information with a pair of dashes

• Can put a pair of brackets or a pair of dashes around extra information in a sentence

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 4: Commas for parenthesis, including relative clauses

• Can use a pair of commas around extra information, including relative clauses that start with who or which

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 5: Choosing brackets, dashes or commas and avoiding ambiguity

• Can choose brackets, dashes or commas to suit a sentence, keep the pair matching and avoid ambiguity

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 6: Grammar words: parenthesis, bracket, dash, relative pronoun, relative clause, modal verb, cohesion and ambiguity

• Can explain and spot parenthesis, bracket, dash, relative pronoun, relative clause, modal verb, cohesion and ambiguity

Year 5 english

Chapter 1: Now or Then?

Chapter 2: The -ed Machine

Chapter 3: Tricky Twisters

Chapter 4: Busy Right Now!

Chapter 5: Time Detective

Chapter 1: Present perfect: has or have + past participle

• Can make the present perfect with has or have and a past participle, like ‘has finished’ or ‘have seen’

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: Past perfect: had + past participle for the earlier event

• Can use the past perfect, had plus a past participle like ‘had left’, to show which past event happened first

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 3: Perfect verbs to show time and cause

• Can choose has, have or had to show when something happened and what it led to

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Linking paragraphs with adverbials of time, place and number

• Can link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place and number, like ‘later’, ‘nearby’ and ‘secondly’

Year 5 english

Chapter 5: Linking paragraphs with tense choices: he had seen her before

• Can link ideas across paragraphs with tense choices, like ‘he had seen her before’

Year 5 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Plural –s or possessive –s: more than one, or belonging?

• Can tell when an s just means more than one and when it shows something belongs to someone

Year 4 english

Chapter 2: Plural possession: the girl’s name or the girls’ names

• Can show one owner or many owners with an apostrophe, like the girl’s name and the girls’ names

Year 4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Possessive apostrophes with regular plurals: girls’, boys’

• Can place the apostrophe after the s in regular plurals, like girls’ and boys’

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Possessive apostrophes with irregular plurals: children’s, men’s, women’s

• Can place the apostrophe in irregular plurals by adding ’s, like children’s, men’s and women’s

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Plural –s and possessive apostrophes in sentences and signs

• Can place the apostrophe in irregular plurals by adding ’s, like children’s, men’s and women’s
• Can place the apostrophe after the s in regular plurals, like girls’ and boys’
• Can show one owner or many owners with an apostrophe, like the girl’s name and the girls’ names

Year 4 english Year 4 english Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Time words

• Can use prepositions of time like before, after and during

Chapter 2: Place words

• Can use prepositions of place like on, under, behind and next to

Chapter 3: Glue words

• Can join ideas with when, while, before and after

Chapter 4: Why words

• Can explain why using because, so and because of

Chapter 1: Max's House: Where's Max?

• Can spot verbs made with has or have, like 'has gone', and knows they tell us something is still true now

Chapter 2: Helper Garden: Has or have?

• Can build the present perfect with has or have, like 'she has painted' and 'they have watered'

Chapter 3: Picnic Hill: Tricky verb twins

• Can use the special verb forms that go with has or have, like 'has gone', 'has seen' and 'has eaten'

Chapter 4: Clock Tower: Went or has gone?

• Can choose 'went' for a finished time, like yesterday, and 'has gone' when something is still true now

Chapter 1: Happening now: the present progressive (she is drumming)

• Can spot the two words that show an action is in progress, such as 'is drumming' or 'was shouting'
• Can use is, am or are with an -ing word to say what is happening now, such as 'Maya is drumming'

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 2: Happening in the past: the past progressive (he was shouting)

• Can use was or were with an -ing word to say what was happening in the past, such as 'Sam was shouting'

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 3: Present or past? Using tenses correctly and consistently

• Can choose present or past correctly, using clue words like 'now' and 'yesterday', and keep the same tense all through a short piece of writing

Year 2 english

Chapter 1: Pronouns: words that stand in for nouns

• Can spot pronouns such as he, she, it and they, and say which noun each one stands for

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 2: Avoiding repetition: swapping nouns for pronouns

• Can swap repeated nouns for pronouns to avoid repetition, within a sentence and across sentences

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 3: Clear writing: when to use a noun instead of a pronoun

• Can choose a noun instead of a pronoun when a pronoun would be unclear

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 4: Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs

• Can use possessive pronouns, like mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs, to show who owns something

Year 4 english Year 4 english

Chapter 5: Grammar words: determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun and adverbial

• Can recognise and name determiners, pronouns, possessive pronouns and adverbials

Year 4 english

Chapter 6: Editing: checking pronouns for accurate, consistent writing

• Can check and improve writing by fixing pronouns that don't match, switch or are unclear

Years 3–4 english Year 4 english