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1234 chapters in 233 games
Commas and Speech Punctuation: All Aboard the Comma Express
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 4 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Fronted adverbials: openers for when, where and how
- Can spot a fronted adverbial: an opener at the start of a sentence that tells when, where or how something happens
Years 3–4 english Year 4 english
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Chapter 2: Commas after fronted adverbials
- Can put a comma after a fronted adverbial, even after a long opener
Years 3–4 english Year 4 english
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Chapter 3: Direct speech: inverted commas around spoken words
- Can put inverted commas around the exact words someone says
Years 3–4 english Year 4 english
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Chapter 4: Punctuating direct speech: reporting clause comma and end punctuation inside
- Can punctuate direct speech fully, with a comma after the reporting clause and the end punctuation inside the inverted commas
Years 3–4 english Year 4 english
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Chapter 5: Putting it together: fronted adverbials and direct speech
- Can punctuate direct speech fully, with a comma after the reporting clause and the end punctuation inside the inverted commas
- Can put a comma after a fronted adverbial, even after a long opener
Years 3–4 english Years 3–4 english Year 4 english Year 4 english
Commas for Clarity: A Theatre Where Sentences Come Alive
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Commas clarify meaning: one comma, two meanings
- Can show how adding a comma changes what a sentence means, such as when speaking to someone by name
Years 5–6 english Year 5 english
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Chapter 2: Commas in lists: keeping each item clear
- Can use commas in a list so each item is clear and nothing gets squashed together
Years 5–6 english Year 5 english
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Chapter 3: Commas after openers: avoiding ambiguity
- Can put a comma after an opening phrase or clause so the words that follow don't get mixed into it
Years 5–6 english Year 5 english
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Chapter 4: Using commas to clarify meaning in your own writing
- Can check their own sentences and add commas where they make the meaning clear, and leave them out where they are not needed
Years 5–6 english Year 5 english
Commas in a List: A Market Adventure with Kit the Comma
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 2 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Meet the comma: what a comma looks like
- Can spot a comma and write it on the line with a little tail
Year 2 english
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Chapter 2: Commas to separate items in a list
- Can use 'and' before the last item in a list, with commas between the other items
- Can use commas to separate the items in a list
Year 2 english Year 2 english
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Chapter 3: Commas and 'and': where commas go in a list
- Can use 'and' before the last item in a list, with commas between the other items
- Can use commas to separate the items in a list
Year 2 english
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Chapter 4: Punctuate a list sentence: capital letters, commas and full stops
- Can use commas to separate the items in a list
- Can write a list sentence with a capital letter, commas and a full stop
Year 2 english Year 2 english
Determiners for Year 4: Ride the Determiner Express
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 4 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: What is a determiner? The word that comes before a noun
- Can explain what a determiner is and spot one before a noun, even when adjectives come in between
Year 4 english Years 3–4 english
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Chapter 2: Articles: choosing a, an and the
- Can choose a, an or the before a noun
Year 4 english
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Chapter 3: Possessive determiners: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
- Can use possessive determiners like my, her and their to show who something belongs to
Year 4 english
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Chapter 4: Numbers and quantifiers: two, some, many, every, no
- Can use numbers and quantifiers like two, some, many and no to say how many
Year 4 english
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Chapter 5: Determiner or pronoun? My and mine, and possessive pronouns
- Can tell a determiner from a pronoun, and use possessive pronouns like mine, hers and theirs
Year 4 english Years 3–4 english
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Chapter 6: Grammar words: determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun and adverbial
- Can use the words determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun and adverbial to talk about writing
Year 4 english Years 3–4 english
Expanded Noun Phrases: Hoot's Parcel Post Adventure
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 4 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Noun phrases: finding the head noun
- Can find the main noun (the head noun) in a noun phrase
Year 4 english
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Chapter 2: Modifying adjectives: describing the noun
- Can add adjectives before a noun to describe it, such as ‘the tiny, spotty dog’
Year 4 english
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Chapter 3: Modifying nouns: a noun describing a noun
- Can use a noun before another noun to describe it, such as ‘maths teacher’ or ‘football boots’
Year 4 english
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Chapter 4: Preposition phrases: adding detail after the noun
- Can add a preposition phrase after a noun, such as ‘the cat under the bench’ or ‘the girl with a kite’
Year 4 english
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Chapter 5: Longer noun phrases: the strict maths teacher with curly hair
- Can add a preposition phrase after a noun, such as ‘the cat under the bench’ or ‘the girl with a kite’
- Can add adjectives before a noun to describe it, such as ‘the tiny, spotty dog’
- Can build a longer noun phrase in the right order, using adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases, such as ‘the strict maths teacher with curly hair’
Year 4 english
Expanded Noun Phrases: Paint Picture Town with Words
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 2 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Noun phrases: finding the noun
- Can explain what a noun phrase is and find the noun inside it, like 'dog' in 'the big dog'
Year 2 english Year 2 english
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Chapter 2: Describe it: adding adjectives, like the blue butterfly
- Can add describing words (adjectives) before a noun to describe it, like 'the blue butterfly'
Year 2 english Year 2 english
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Chapter 3: Specify it: plain flour and the man in the moon
- Can add words that say exactly which one, like 'plain flour' or 'the man in the moon'
Year 2 english Year 2 english
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Chapter 4: Using expanded noun phrases in sentences
- Can spot and use expanded noun phrases in sentences to make writing clearer and more interesting
Year 2 english Year 2 english
Formal and Informal Language: Swap Hats with Mina
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 6 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Formal and informal vocabulary: find out or discover, ask for or request, go in or enter
- Can swap informal words for formal ones, such as changing find out to discover, ask for to request and go in to enter
Year 6 english Years 5–6 english
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Chapter 2: Question tags in informal speech: He's your friend, isn't he?
- Can spot question tags such as isn't he? as chatty speech, and write sentences formally without tags or short forms like don't
Year 6 english Years 5–6 english
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Chapter 3: The subjunctive in very formal writing: If I were and Were they to come
- Can use subjunctive forms such as If I were and Were they to come in very formal writing and speech
Year 6 english Years 5–6 english
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Chapter 4: Choosing the right register for speech and writing
- Can choose a formal or informal register to suit who it is for and what it is for, in speech and writing, and keep chatty speech words out of careful writing
Years 1–6 english Years 5–6 english
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Chapter 5: Editing formal writing: register and subject and verb agreement
- Can edit writing so it is formal and every subject agrees with its verb, such as we were and the children are
Years 5–6 english Years 1–6 english Years 5–6 english
Fronted Adverbials: All Aboard the Sentence Train
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 4 · Free
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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
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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
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Chapter 3: Commas after fronted adverbials
- Can put a comma straight after a fronted adverbial
Years 3–4 english Year 4 english
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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
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Chapter 5: Word jobs: determiner, pronoun and possessive pronoun
- Can spot determiners, pronouns and possessive pronouns in a sentence
Year 4 english
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Hyphens and Bullet Points: Fix the Signs at Hyphen Harbour
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 6 · Free
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Modal Verbs and Possibility: The Maybe-Meter Game
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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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
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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
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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
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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
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs: Jobs in Word Park
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 2 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Parenthesis: Brackets, Dashes and Commas on a Word Train
Grammar & Punctuation · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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