Chapter library

Chapter 1: Synonyms: words with similar meanings (big, large)

• Can find and write synonyms: words with the same or similar meaning, like big and large

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 2: Antonyms: words with opposite meanings (big, little)

• Can find and write antonyms: words with opposite meanings, like big and little, including ones made with un-, dis-, in- and im-

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 3: Synonym or antonym? Telling big, large and little apart

• Can tell whether two words are synonyms or antonyms, and use both terms correctly

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 4: Choosing the best synonym or antonym for a sentence

• Can choose the synonym or antonym that best fits the meaning and strength of a sentence

Year 6 english

Chapter 5: Grammar terms: subject, object, active and passive

• Can spot the subject and object of a sentence and say whether it is active or passive

Year 6 english

Chapter 6: Punctuation terms: ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon and bullet points

• Can name an ellipsis, a hyphen, a colon, a semi-colon and bullet points, and say what each one does

Year 6 english

Chapter 1: Story Words at the Post Office

• Can explain and use story words like notice, peculiar, imagine, decide, surprise, describe and promise

Chapter 2: Detective Word Clues

• Can work out what a new word means by finding clues in the sentence

Chapter 3: Shades of Meaning

• Can pick a word with a similar meaning, find an opposite, and choose a stronger word (warm, hot, boiling)

Chapter 4: Prefix Potions

• Can add the prefixes un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre- and sub- and say what the new word means

Chapter 5: Word Family Tree

• Can spot words in the same family (help, helpful, helper) and add -ly correctly, as in quickly, gently and happily

Chapter 6: Echo Cave: Two Meanings and Homophones

• Can use the sentence to pick the right meaning of a two-meaning word, and spell homophones like here and hear

Chapter 1: Audience and purpose: choosing a formal or informal tone

• Can work out who will read a piece of writing and why, and choose a formal or informal tone and the right form

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 2: Formal vocabulary: ask for → request, find out → discover

• Can swap chatty everyday words for formal ones, like 'ask for' into 'request', and use full forms like 'I am'

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 3: Speech or writing? Question tags, slang and filler words

• Can spot chatty speech in writing, such as question tags, slang and filler words, and change it into formal writing

Years 5–6 english Years 5–6 english

Chapter 4: Subject and verb agreement: singular and plural

• Can make the subject and verb agree, singular with singular and plural with plural

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 5: The subjunctive: If I were… and I request that…

• Can recognise and use subjunctive forms, like 'If I were' and 'I request that he be'

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 6: Setting out formal letters and emails: Dear… to Yours sincerely

• Can set out a formal letter and email, and choose 'Yours sincerely' or 'Yours faithfully' correctly

Years 5–6 english

Chapter 7: Writing letters of request, complaint and thanks

• Can write letters of request, complaint and thanks in the right formal register

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

Chapter 1: Wow Words

• Can choose the best word for the job, like 'crept' instead of 'went', so readers can picture exactly what happens

Chapter 2: Super Starts

• Can start sentences in different ways, using when, where and how openers like 'After lunch,', 'Under the bridge,' and 'Slowly,'

Chapter 3: Short and Long

• Can mix short sentences for drama with longer ones joined by words like because, but, so and when

Chapter 4: Paint a Picture

• Can add describing details, sense words and 'show, don't tell' clues so readers can picture a story

Chapter 5: Super Checker

• Can check writing for capital letters, punctuation, 'a' or 'an', and sound-alike words like here and hear

Chapter 1: Linking sentences in order: firstly, then, after that

• Can link sentences in order inside a paragraph using firstly, then and after that

Year 5 english

Chapter 2: Linking back inside a paragraph with 'this' and pronouns

• Can use this, and pronouns like it and they, to link back to an earlier idea

Year 5 english

Chapter 3: Linking paragraphs with adverbials of time and place: later, nearby

• Can start a new paragraph with an adverbial of time, like later, or place, like nearby

Year 5 english

Chapter 4: Linking paragraphs with adverbials of number: firstly, secondly, finally

• Can put points in order across paragraphs with number adverbials, like firstly, secondly and finally

Year 5 english

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

• Can link paragraphs with tense choices, using had, as in he had seen her before

Year 5 english

Chapter 6: Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs

• Can choose a mix of linking words and phrases so writing flows within and across paragraphs

Years 5–6 english Year 5 english Year 5 english

Chapter 1: Catch Your Ideas

• Can gather ideas that fit a topic and jot them down as quick notes before writing

Chapter 2: Who Is It For?

• Can say who a piece of writing is for and why, and choose the right kind of writing and words

Chapter 3: First, Next, Last

• Can plan a beginning, a middle and an end and use time words like first, next and finally

Chapter 4: Say It, Write It

• Can say a sentence first, then write it with capital letters, full stops and the right words

Chapter 5: Read It Back

• Can read writing back to spot mistakes and make it even better

Chapter 1: Studying instructions: title, list, steps and diagram

• Can spot the title, the list of things you need, the numbered steps and the diagram in a set of instructions

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 2: Command words: the bossy verbs that start each step

• Can start each step with a command word, like cut, mix or put

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Time words: putting steps in order with first, next, then, finally

• Can put steps in the right order and use time words like first, next, then and finally

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Headings, sub-headings, numbered steps and diagrams

• Can organise instructions with a heading and sub-headings, like You will need and What to do
• Can write one action in each numbered step and label a diagram

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Plan, organise and test your own instructions

• Can organise instructions with a heading and sub-headings, like You will need and What to do
• Can put steps in the right order and use time words like first, next, then and finally
• Can spot the title, the list of things you need, the numbered steps and the diagram in a set of instructions

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Readers and reasons: who a letter or email is for, and why

• Can look at example letters and emails and spot who they are for and why they were written

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 2: Parts of a letter: address, date, greeting and sign-off

• Can name the parts of a letter, like the address, date, greeting, message and sign-off, by exploring an example

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 3: Parts of an email: To, subject line, greeting and sign-off

• Can name the parts of an email, like the To box, subject line, greeting, message and sign-off, by exploring an example

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 4: Words and grammar: friendly or polite words, and joining words

• Can pick out friendly or polite words, and joining words like because and so, from example letters and emails

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 5: Planning: discussing and recording ideas

• Can plan by discussing ideas, recording them as short notes, and boxing them up into a beginning, middle and end

Years 3–4 english

Chapter 6: Your turn: plan your own letter or email from an example

• Can plan by discussing ideas, recording them as short notes, and boxing them up into a beginning, middle and end
• Can pick out friendly or polite words, and joining words like because and so, from example letters and emails
• Can look at example letters and emails and spot who they are for and why they were written

Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english

Chapter 1: Meet the Paragraph

• Can explain that a paragraph is a group of sentences about one idea, starting on a new line

Chapter 2: Sort the Sentences

• Can sort sentences about the same idea into one paragraph

Chapter 3: TiPToP Junction

• Can tell when to start a new paragraph: a new time, place, topic or person

Chapter 4: Line Them Up

• Can put paragraphs in a sensible order, with a beginning, middle and end

Chapter 5: Link It Up

• Can link paragraphs with words like first, next, after that and finally

Chapter 1: Say it first

• Can say a sentence out loud before writing it and check that it makes sense

Chapter 2: Words in the right order

• Can put words in the right order so that a sentence makes sense

Chapter 3: Start and end it

• Can start a sentence with a capital letter and end it with the right mark

Chapter 4: Choose great words

• Can choose interesting words that make the meaning clear

Chapter 5: Join it up

• Can join ideas with joining words like because, when, if and although