Chapter library

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

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