Chapter library

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

Chapter 1: Sitting and holding a pencil correctly

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

Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english Year 1 english

Chapter 7: Capital letters: forming them from the top

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

Year 1 english

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

Year 1 english

Chapter 1: Beyond living memory: how people travelled before the first aeroplane flight

• Can say how people travelled before aeroplanes, and compare the first aeroplane with planes today
• Can explain that the first aeroplane flight was in 1903, more than 120 years ago, before anyone alive today was born

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: Significant people: the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright

• Can name Wilbur and Orville Wright and say how they worked to build a flying machine

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: The first aeroplane flight: 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk

• Can say what happened on the day of the first aeroplane flight: Orville flew the Wright Flyer for 12 seconds on a windy beach near Kitty Hawk, in America
• Can name Wilbur and Orville Wright and say how they worked to build a flying machine

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: Why the first flight matters: comparing travel then and now, from the Wright brothers to Neil Armstrong

• Can say how people travelled before aeroplanes, and compare the first aeroplane with planes today
• Can say why the first flight changed the world: planes now carry people and things all around the world, and flying led to space travel

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: Wake the computer

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 2: The abacus

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 3: Machines of gears

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 4: ENIAC, the giant

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 5: Smaller and faster

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 6: Bits: on and off

• Can explain that computers store everything as bits: 0s and 1s

Chapter 7: Logic gates

• Can explain how simple logic gates like AND and OR turn inputs into an output

Chapter 8: Build a computer

• Can name the main parts of a computer, like the processor, memory, input and output, and say what they do

Chapter 9: Press a key

• Can explain how the processor fetches, decodes and carries out an instruction when you press a key

Chapter 10: Computer explorer

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 1: Input devices: how a computer gets information

• Can spot input devices, like keyboards, microphones and sensors, that send information into a computer

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 2: Output devices: how a computer shows results

• Can spot input devices, like keyboards, microphones and sensors, that send information into a computer
• Can spot output devices, like screens, speakers and printers, that bring results out of a computer

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 3: Processing: the CPU follows instructions to turn input into output

• Can explain that the processor (CPU) follows instructions to turn input into output, and spot input, process and output in real devices

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 4: Memory (RAM): the computer's short-term workspace

• Can explain that memory (RAM) holds what the computer is working on now and forgets it without power, while storage keeps saved files for later

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 5: Storage: saving files to keep them for later

• Can explain that memory (RAM) holds what the computer is working on now and forgets it without power, while storage keeps saved files for later

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 6: Choosing devices and software to collect, analyse and present data

• Can choose the right devices and software to collect, analyse and present data for a goal

Years 3–6 computing

Chapter 1: Naming body parts: head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, tummy, legs and feet

• Can name and point to the main parts of the body: head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, tummy, legs and feet

Year 1 science

Chapter 2: Naming smaller body parts: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, elbows, knees, fingers and toes

• Can name smaller body parts: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, elbows, knees, fingers and toes

Year 1 science

Chapter 3: Drawing a person and labelling the parts of the body

• Can draw a person and label the body parts, with each label line pointing to the right part

Year 1 science

Chapter 4: The five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch

• Can name the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and say which sense they are using

Year 1 science

Chapter 5: Which body part goes with each sense: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin

• Can say which part of the body goes with each sense: eyes for sight, ears for hearing, nose for smell, tongue for taste and skin for touch

Year 1 science