Chapter library

Chapter 1: Sitting and holding a pencil correctly

• Can sit correctly at a table and hold a pencil comfortably and correctly

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Chapter 2: Lower-case letters: start, direction and finish

• Can form lower-case letters in the right direction, starting and finishing in the right place

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Chapter 3: Letter families: curly caterpillar letters c a d e g o q f s

• Can form lower-case letters in the right direction, starting and finishing in the right place
• Can say which handwriting family a letter belongs to: curly caterpillar, long ladder, one-armed robot or zig-zag

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Chapter 4: Letter families: long ladder letters l i t u j y

• Can form lower-case letters in the right direction, starting and finishing in the right place
• Can say which handwriting family a letter belongs to: curly caterpillar, long ladder, one-armed robot or zig-zag

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Chapter 5: Letter families: one-armed robot letters r n m h b p k

• Can form lower-case letters in the right direction, starting and finishing in the right place
• Can say which handwriting family a letter belongs to: curly caterpillar, long ladder, one-armed robot or zig-zag

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Chapter 6: Letter families: zig-zag letters v w x z, and sorting all four families

• Can form lower-case letters in the right direction, starting and finishing in the right place
• Can say which handwriting family a letter belongs to: curly caterpillar, long ladder, one-armed robot or zig-zag

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Chapter 7: Capital letters: forming them from the top

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

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Chapter 8: Digits 0 to 9: forming them the right way round

• Can form the digits 0 to 9, starting at the top and facing the right way

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Chapter 1: Letter names: every letter has a name and a sound

• Can say the names of all 26 letters of the alphabet and knows a letter's name is different from its sound

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Chapter 2: Alphabet order: saying the letters from A to Z

• Can say the letters of the alphabet in order from A to Z and find the letter that comes next, before or in a gap

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Chapter 3: Alphabet order: next, before and missing letters

• Can say the letters of the alphabet in order from A to Z and find the letter that comes next, before or in a gap

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Chapter 4: Letter names: spelling words out loud, like c-a-t

• Can spell short words out loud using letter names, like c-a-t for cat

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Chapter 5: Same sound, different spellings: telling them apart with letter names

• Can use letter names to tell apart different spellings of the same sound, like e-e in tree and e-a in leaf

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Chapter 1: Vowel digraphs: ay, oy, ou, ir and aw

• Can quickly say the sound for letter teams such as ay, oy, ou, ir, aw, ue, ew, ie, oe, are and ore

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Chapter 2: More vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ue, ew, ie, oe, are and ore

• Can quickly say the sound for letter teams such as ay, oy, ou, ir, aw, ue, ew, ie, oe, are and ore

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Chapter 3: Split digraphs: reading and spelling a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e and e-e

• Can read words with split digraphs, such as cape, pine, robe and cube
• Can spell words with letter teams and split digraphs, such as bird, cloud, paw, snore and cake

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Chapter 4: Alternative sounds: ow, ie and ea can each make two sounds

• Can try both sounds for ow, ie and ea to read words like cow and snow, pie and shield, sea and head

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Chapter 5: Spelling the same sound: ai or ay, oi or oy

• Can choose ay or oy at the end of a word, and ai or oi in the middle, to spell words like play, rain, boy and coin

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Chapter 6: Spelling words with digraphs and trigraphs

• Can spell words with letter teams and split digraphs, such as bird, cloud, paw, snore and cake

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Chapter 1: Homophones: same sound, different meaning (heard/herd, aisle/isle, aloud/allowed)

• Can choose the right homophone by thinking about its meaning, such as heard or herd, aisle or isle, and aloud or allowed

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Chapter 2: Nouns end -ce, verbs end -se: advice/advise, device/devise, licence/license, practice/practise, prophecy/prophesy

• Can use -ce for nouns and -se for verbs to spell pairs like advice and advise, and practice and practise

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 3: Memory tricks for stationary/stationery, principal/principle and desert/dessert

• Can use memory tricks to spell stationary and stationery, principal and principle, and desert and dessert

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Word jobs: affect/effect, who's/whose and past/passed

• Can use word jobs to choose affect or effect, who's or whose, and past or passed

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Chapter 5: Proofreading for homophones: steal/steel, cereal/serial, guest/guessed, led/lead, morning/mourning, wary/weary

• Can choose the right homophone by thinking about its meaning, such as heard or herd, aisle or isle, and aloud or allowed
• Can spot and fix the wrong homophone when checking a piece of writing

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 1: Sound Garden

• Can say the sound a letter makes and find the letter for a sound they hear

Chapter 2: Frog Pond

• Can hear the first sound in a spoken word and find its letter
• Can say the sound a letter makes and find the letter for a sound they hear

Chapter 3: Robot Talk

• Can listen to sounds said one at a time, like d-o-g, and push them together to hear the word

Chapter 4: Blending Train

• Can read simple words like sun, map and dog by saying each sound and blending them

Chapter 5: Letter Buddies

• Can read letter pairs that make one sound, such as sh, ch, th, ng, ck, ee, oo, ai, ar and or

Chapter 6: Word Magic

• Can read a short sentence such as a cat in a hat and match it to a picture
• Can read simple words like sun, map and dog by saying each sound and blending them

Chapter 1: Letter sounds: a sound for each letter, a to z

• Can say a sound for each letter of the alphabet, a to z

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Chapter 2: Two letters, one sound: sh, ch, th and ng

• Can say the sounds for the letter groups sh, ch, th and ng

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Chapter 3: Letter groups with vowels: ai, ee and igh

• Can say the sounds for the letter groups ai, ee and igh

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Chapter 4: More letter groups: oa, oo, ar and or

• Can say the sounds for the letter groups oa, oo, ar and or

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Chapter 5: Spot letter groups in words and say their sounds

• Can spot letter groups in words, say their sounds and blend simple words

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Chapter 1: Un-Do Clocktower: un- and re-

• Can explain how the prefixes un- and re- change what a word means, such as unlock and replay

Chapter 2: Muddle Market: dis- and mis-

• Can use dis- and mis- to change meanings, and spell words like misspell and disappear correctly

Chapter 3: Submarine Dock: sub- and real prefixes

• Can explain that sub- means 'under' and tell a real prefix from letters that only look like one

Chapter 4: Speedway: the suffix -ly

• Can add -ly to an adjective to make an adverb that tells how something is done

Chapter 5: Invitation Hall: the suffix -ation

• Can add -ation to a verb to make a noun, such as inform to information

Chapter 6: The Word Machine: longer words

• Can build and split longer words that have a prefix, a root and a suffix, such as misinformation

Chapter 1: –cious and –tious: spelling the 'shus' sound

• Can choose between –cious and –tious, for example spacious and cautious

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: –ant and –ance or –ent and –ence: choosing the right ending

• Can choose –ant and –ance or –ent and –ence using clues, for example tolerant and innocence

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Chapter 3: –able and –ible (and –ably, –ibly): choosing the right ending

• Can choose between –able and –ible and turn them into –ably and –ibly words

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Chapter 4: Rules for adding suffixes: drop or keep the e, y to i, and –fer words

• Can follow the rules for adding suffixes: dropping or keeping the e, changing y to i, and doubling the r in –fer words

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Chapter 5: Hyphens after prefixes: co-ordinate and re-enter

• Can use a hyphen after a prefix when two vowels meet, as in co-ordinate and re-enter

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Chapter 6: Word detective: using roots, prefixes and suffixes to read and understand new words

• Can split new words into prefixes, roots and suffixes to read them aloud and work out their meaning

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Chapter 1: Plurals: adding –s or –es to naming words

• Can add s or es to a naming word so it means more than one, like dogs and foxes

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Chapter 2: Doing words with –s or –es: he jumps, she wishes

• Can add s or es to a doing word after he, she or it, like the frog jumps and she wishes

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Chapter 3: Adding –ing, –ed and –er to doing words

• Can add ing, ed and er to doing words without changing them, like helping, helped and helper

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Chapter 4: Comparing with –er and –est: quick, quicker, quickest

• Can add er and est to describing words to compare, like quicker and quickest

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Chapter 5: The prefix un–: unkind, untie and undo

• Can put un at the start of a word to mean not or undo, like unkind and untie

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Chapter 1: Tricky words: reading 'the' and 'I'

• Can read the tricky words 'the', 'I', 'to', 'no' and 'go'
• Can spot the tricky part of a tricky word, the part that doesn't sound out the usual way

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Chapter 2: Tricky words: reading 'to', 'no' and 'go'

• Can read the tricky words 'the', 'I', 'to', 'no' and 'go'
• Can spot the tricky part of a tricky word, the part that doesn't sound out the usual way

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Chapter 3: Spot the tricky part in common exception words

• Can spot the tricky part of a tricky word, the part that doesn't sound out the usual way

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Chapter 4: Read aloud simple sentences with tricky words

• Can read simple sentences out loud, with tricky words in them

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Chapter 5: Read aloud a little book with tricky words

• Can read simple sentences out loud, with tricky words in them
• Can read the tricky words 'the', 'I', 'to', 'no' and 'go'

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Chapter 1: Double letters: ff, ll, ss and zz

• Can spell short words that end in ff, ll, ss and zz, like off, bell, kiss and buzz

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Chapter 2: The ck sound at the end: back, duck and sock

• Can spell short words that end in ck, like back, duck and sock

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Chapter 3: Plurals: adding –s or –es for more than one

• Can add –s or –es to show more than one, like cats, dogs, foxes and dishes

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Chapter 4: Doing words with –s and –es: jumps and catches

• Can add –s or –es to doing words, like jumps, runs and catches

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Chapter 5: Adding –ing, –ed and –er: helping, helped, helper

• Can add –ing, –ed and –er to words like help, jump and hunt, as in helping, jumped and hunter

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Chapter 6: Adding –er and –est: quicker and quickest

• Can add –er and –est to compare things, like quicker and quickest

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Chapter 7: The prefix un–: unhappy and unlock

• Can add the prefix un– to the start of a word, like unhappy and unlock

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Chapter 1: Reading common exception words: spot the tricky part

• Can read the Year 1 tricky words, such as said, was, they and friend
• Can point to the tricky part of a tricky word and say if it is at the start, in the middle or at the end

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Chapter 2: Common exception words: tricky parts at the start, middle or end

• Can read the Year 1 tricky words, such as said, was, they and friend
• Can point to the tricky part of a tricky word and say if it is at the start, in the middle or at the end

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Chapter 3: Spelling common exception words

• Can spell Year 1 tricky words such as said, was, they and friend, remembering the tricky part

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Chapter 4: Days of the week: reading and spelling Monday to Sunday

• Can spell the seven days of the week, each with a capital letter

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Chapter 5: Contractions: I'm, I'll, we'll and the apostrophe for missing letters

• Can read I'm, I'll and we'll and say which letters the apostrophe stands for

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