Chapter library

Chapter 1: Relative clauses and relative pronouns: adding information about a noun

• Can spot a relative clause and its relative pronoun, and hook a relative clause onto a noun

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 2: Who, which and that: relative pronouns for people, animals and things

• Can choose who for people, which for animals and things, and that for either

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Where, when and whose: relative pronouns for places, times and belonging

• Can use where for places, when for times and whose for belonging

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english

Chapter 4: Omitted relative pronouns: when who, which or that can be left out

• Can spot where a relative pronoun has been left out, and knows when it can be left out

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 5: Relative clauses as parenthesis: commas, brackets and dashes

• Can use a pair of commas, brackets or dashes around a relative clause that adds extra information

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english

Chapter 6: Grammar words: relative pronoun, cohesion, ambiguity and modal verb

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

Year 5 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Who Said That?

• Can spot the exact words someone says in a sentence (direct speech)

Chapter 2: Meet 66 and 99

• Can write opening (66) and closing (99) inverted commas the right way round

Chapter 3: Catch the Words

• Can put inverted commas around the words someone says, and not around the rest of the sentence

Chapter 4: The Speech Sandwich

• Can choose words like whispered, shouted or asked to show how something is said
• Can put the comma, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of speech inside the closing inverted commas

Chapter 1: The subject: who or what does the verb

• Can find the subject of a sentence, even when it isn't the first word

Year 6 english

Chapter 2: The object: who or what the verb is done to

• Can find the object of a sentence and spot when a sentence has no object
• Can find the subject of a sentence, even when it isn't the first word

Year 6 english

Chapter 3: Active and passive: swapping subject and object

• Can tell active and passive sentences apart and turn a simple active sentence into a passive one

Year 6 english

Chapter 4: Subject–verb agreement: singular and plural

• Can make the subject and verb agree in singular and plural sentences and fix mistakes when editing

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 5: Speech or writing? Agreement and register when editing

• Can tell the language of speech from formal writing and choose the right register for the reader
• Can make the subject and verb agree in singular and plural sentences and fix mistakes when editing

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Formal or informal? Question tags, chatty words and formal words

• Can tell formal from informal speech and writing, spot question tags such as isn't he?, and choose formal words such as request instead of ask for

Year 6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: The subjunctive were: If I were you and I wish it were

• Can use the subjunctive were for imagined situations, as in If I were you or I wish she were here

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 3: Very formal sentences that start with were: Were they to come

• Can start a very formal sentence with were instead of if, as in Were they to come

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 4: The subjunctive after formal demands: insist that he be

• Can use the subjunctive after formal demands, as in We insist that he be on time or It is vital that she attend

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 5: Putting it together: a formal speech with subjunctive forms

• Can start a very formal sentence with were instead of if, as in Were they to come
• Can tell formal from informal speech and writing, spot question tags such as isn't he?, and choose formal words such as request instead of ask for
• Can use the subjunctive after formal demands, as in We insist that he be on time or It is vital that she attend

Years 5–6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 1: Telling Beach

• Can write statements that tell you something and end with a full stop

Chapter 2: Question Cove

• Can write questions that ask something and end with a question mark

Chapter 3: Wow Waves

• Can write exclamations that start with what or how and end with an exclamation mark

Chapter 4: Bossy Bay

• Can write commands that tell someone to do something, starting with a bossy verb

Chapter 5: Pal Party

• Can tell statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart

Chapter 6: Bridge Builders

• Can join two ideas into one sentence with and, but, or and because

Chapter 1: Making verbs with –ate, –ise and –ify

• Can turn nouns and adjectives into verbs using the suffixes –ate, –ise and –ify

Year 5 english

Chapter 2: Spelling –ate, –ise and –ify verbs: just add, drop the e, drop the y

• Can spell verbs ending in –ate, –ise and –ify, dropping a final e or y when needed

Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Verb prefixes dis–, de– and mis–

• Can use the prefixes dis–, de– and mis– to change a verb's meaning

Year 5 english

Chapter 4: Verb prefixes over– and re–

• Can use the prefixes over– and re– to change a verb's meaning

Year 5 english

Chapter 5: Using verb prefixes and suffixes together

• Can spot a real prefix and spell verbs with prefixes without changing the root word
• Can turn nouns and adjectives into verbs using the suffixes –ate, –ise and –ify
• Can use the prefixes dis–, de– and mis– to change a verb's meaning

Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 1: Vowel Valley

• Can tell which letters are vowel letters (a, e, i, o, u) and which are consonant letters

Chapter 2: Bump Bridge

• Can choose a or an by listening to the first sound of a word, like a dog and an egg

Chapter 3: Sound Tunnel

• Can listen to the sound, not the letter, to choose a or an, like a unicorn and an hour

Chapter 4: Next-Word Junction

• Can choose a or an to suit the very next word, like a red apple and an old dog

Chapter 1: Nouns and verbs: naming words and being or doing words

• Can find nouns, including ideas like bravery, and verbs, including being words like is and modal verbs like should

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: Adjectives and adverbs: words that describe nouns and verbs

• Can tell adjectives, which describe nouns, from adverbs, which tell how, when, where or how often, even when they don't end in -ly

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 3: Pronouns and determiners: words that replace or introduce nouns

• Can spot pronouns, which stand in for nouns, and determiners, which come before nouns to show which one or how many

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Prepositions and conjunctions: words that link

• Can spot prepositions, which link a noun to where or when, and conjunctions, which join words and clauses, and tell them apart

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 5: Same word, different class: a word's job decides its class

• Can work out a word's class from its job in the sentence, knowing the same word can be a noun, a verb or an adjective

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 6: Using word class terms to talk about writing and reading

• Can use words like noun, adjective, adverb and conjunction correctly to talk about their own writing and the books they read

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Letters, words and spaces

• Can see where words start and end, and leave spaces between words
• Can use the words letter, capital letter, word, singular, plural, sentence and punctuation to talk about writing

Year 1 english Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 2: Sentences: a capital letter to start, a full stop to end

• Can start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop
• Can use the words letter, capital letter, word, singular, plural, sentence and punctuation to talk about writing

Year 1 english Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 3: Question marks and exclamation marks

• Can choose a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark to end a sentence

Year 1 english Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 4: Capital letters for names, places, days of the week and I

• Can use capital letters for names of people, places, the days of the week and the word I

Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 5: Singular and plural: one or more than one

• Can use the words letter, capital letter, word, singular, plural, sentence and punctuation to talk about writing

Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 6: Grammar words: talking about my writing

• Can choose a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark to end a sentence
• Can start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop
• Can use capital letters for names of people, places, the days of the week and the word I

Year 1 english Year 1 english Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 1: Making nouns with –er and –ness (teacher, kindness)

• Can make nouns by adding –er and –ness, like teacher and kindness

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 2: Making compound nouns by joining words (whiteboard, superman)

• Can join two words to make a compound noun, like whiteboard

Year 2 english

Chapter 3: Making adjectives with –ful and –less (careful, careless)

• Can make adjectives with –ful (full of) and –less (without), like careful and careless

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 4: Comparing with –er and –est (taller, tallest)

• Can compare things using –er and –est, like taller and tallest

Year 2 english

Chapter 5: Turning adjectives into adverbs with –ly (slowly, quickly)

• Can turn adjectives into adverbs by adding –ly, like slow to slowly

Year 2 english Year 2 english

Chapter 6: Spelling words with –ment, –ness, –ful, –less and –ly

• Can spell longer words with –ment, –ness, –ful, –less and –ly

Year 2 english

Chapter 1: Diagonal joins: from the bottom to short and tall letters

• Can join letters with diagonal strokes from the bottom, to short and tall letters

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 2: Horizontal joins: o, r, v and w across the top

• Can join o, r, v and w with flat, horizontal strokes across the top

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Letters best left unjoined: tail letters, x, z and capitals

• Can tell which letters are best left unjoined: tail letters like g, j and y, x and z, and capital letters

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Legible writing: parallel, evenly spaced downstrokes

• Can keep downstrokes parallel and evenly spaced in joined writing

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Consistent writing: letter size and line spacing so ascenders and descenders don't touch

• Can keep letters a consistent size and space lines so ascenders and descenders don't touch

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Writing has two jobs: say your idea, then form the letters

• Can say their idea out loud before writing it, and knows writing also means forming letters

Reception english

Chapter 2: Lower-case letters: long ladder letters l, i, t, u, j and y

• Can form l, i, t, u, j and y, starting at the top and going down

Reception english Reception english

Chapter 3: Lower-case letters: curly caterpillar letters c, o, a, d, g, q, e, s and f

• Can form curly caterpillar letters like c, o, a, d and s, curling round the right way

Reception english Reception english

Chapter 4: Lower-case letters: one-armed robot letters r, n, m, h, b, p and k

• Can form one-armed robot letters like r, n, h and b, and zigzag letters like v, w, x and z

Reception english Reception english

Chapter 5: Lower-case letters: zigzag letters v, w, x and z

• Can form one-armed robot letters like r, n, h and b, and zigzag letters like v, w, x and z

Reception english Reception english

Chapter 6: Capital letters: starting at the top and forming them correctly

• Can form capital letters, starting each one at the top

Reception english Reception english

Chapter 7: Recognisable letters: the right way round, the right size and on the line

• Can write letters that others can read: the right way round, the right size and sitting on the line

Reception english Reception english