Curriculum Map and Content: Literacy

EYFS Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Punctuation Know full

stops are found at the end of sentences

Know capital letters start a sentence

Know that capital letters are used for people's names.

Know full stops and capital letters are used to punctuate sentences. The dog ran into the street.

Know that exclamation marks are used for heightened states of emotion. I am so angry!

Know a question mark ends a sentence starting with: can, will, which, how, what, when, why, and who. How can I get to the shop?

Know that capital letters are used for names of people. Cedric, the

Know a question starts with Can, will, which, how, what, when, why, and who and ends in a question mark. How can I get to the shop?

Know an exclamatory sentence begins with What or How, an exclamation mark. What a beautiful morning it was!

Know that commas separate the adjectives in an expanded noun phrase and items in a list. That big, black cat.

Know apostrophes are used in words to show that letters have been omitted. Shouldn't, didn't.

Know inverted commas are used to show that someone is speaking. "I am very tired tonight" said the farmer

Know that punctuation needs to come before direct speech and at the end of direct speech; the end punctuation must be within the inverted commas. The farmer said, "I am very tired tonight."

Know that commas can be used to separate clauses within a sentence . Cedric, the long, brown, slender dog ran into the street, hoping he would not be caught by his owner.

Know that apostrophes can be used to mark possession. Martha's pen was on the floor.

Know that a comma is to be used after a fronted adverbial. Unexpectedly, the long, brown, slender dog ran into the street.

Know that brackets can be used for parenthesis. Cedric (who was a long, brown, slender dog) ran into the street, hoping he would not be caught by his owner.

Know that dashes and commas can be used for parenthesis. Cedric -who was a long, brown, slender dog-ran into the street, hoping he would not be caught by his owner.

Know that semi colons can be used instead of co-ordinating conjunctions to connect two clauses. Martha has gone to the library; Bob has gone to play football.

Know semi-colons are used to separate items in a list when the item is more than one word. I like lots of sugar; a little bit of chocolate; lashings of treacle and a squirt of raspberry juice on my ice cream.

Know that a colon is used to start a list and that the first item in the list does not have a

long, brown, slender dog ran into the street.

capital letter. I would like the following toppings on my ice cream: marshmallows, chocolate and treacle.

Know that a colon is used between two clauses to explain, expand or illustrate the first clause. Martha has gone to the library: she needs to study hard for an exam.

Know that the word after a colon in sentence should not be capitalised. Martha has gone to the library: she needs to study hard for an exam.

Know that some nouns are hyphenated to create compound adjectives

and the word very is never used to hyphenate a word. The rock-hard cake was impossible to eat.

Know that ellipses show a break in time or to create tension. Cedric the dog stopped in the road.... Nothing moved.

Grammatical terms (At the end of each year the children should know what the following grammatical terms mean)

Full stop: ends a sentence

Capital letter: starts a sentence and is used to start somebody's name.

Full stop: ends a sentence.

Capital letter: starts a sentence and is used to start somebody’s name.

Question mark: marks the end of a question.

Noun: a word which refers to a thing, animal, place or person.

Exclamation

Verb: an action word.

Noun phrase: a group of words surrounding a noun which does not contain a verb.

Co-ordination: words (for, and, nor, but, or, so) which connect clauses in a sentence.

Adverb: how a verb is done.

Subordinating connective: words (when, that, if, because) which are used to connect clauses.

Inverted commas: speech marks. Used to show when someone in written text is speaking.

Direct speech: shows when someone is speaking in the text

Pronoun: personal (you, we, he, she, it, and they).

Proper noun: a noun which names a specific thing, place, or

Determiner: comes before a noun (the, an, a).

Metaphor Fronted adverbial:

words or a phrase describing the action that follows.

Possessive pronoun: My, mine, our, ours, its, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your and yours.

Prepositional phrase: A group of words starting with a preposition, followed by a noun, pronoun or clause.

Possession: to own.

Parenthesis: extra information within a sentence.

Dashes Bracket Relative adverb:

which, where, when, why.

Relative pronoun: who, whom which, that, whose.

Relative clause: a clause beginning with a relative adverb or relative pronoun

Cohesion

Ambiguity

Compound adjective: gives extra definition to a noun.

Hyphen: used to join 2 words.

Synonym: similar meaning.

Antonym: opposite meaning.

Colon

Semi-colon Passive voice:

object, verb, subject

Active voice:

mark: marks a state of emotion.

Letter Word

Singular Plural Sentence

Punctuation

Statement Question

Command

Suffix: attaches to the end of a root word.

Adjective: describes a noun

Exclamation: What a difficult test that was!

Simile First person

Second person Third person

Tense: past and present

Apostrophe

Comma: used to separate items in a list

Omission: removal of letters.

person. Adverb: when a

verb is happening.

Clause: a group of words which contains a subject (noun) and a verb.

Imperative verb: A verb in the imperative (commanding) mood.

Subordinate clause: A group of words which contain a subject and a verb which cannot stand on its own and begins with a subordinating conjunction

Main clause: A group of words which contain a subject and a verb which can stand on its own.

Simile

Consonant: any other letter apart from a,e,i,o,u

Vowel: a,e,i,o,u Word family

Prefix: set of letters that

subject, verb, object.

Subject: who is doing the action in the sentence.

Object: what is being done to in the sentence.

Ellipsis: to show an omission of speech or wording

Bullet points: defines items in a list

comes before a root word.

Preposition: a word or set of words which indicates location (in, near, behind, on top of) or a relationship between a noun and another part of a sentence (besides instead of, about, after).

Modal verb: shows if a verb is certain possible, or probable to happen; usually used for future tense purposes.

Spellings Phase 2 Tricky words: and, to , the, Words + captions using sets 1-5 letters Phase 3 Tricky words: no, go, I Two syllable words e.g. lunchbox, desktop 25 new graphemes Phase 4 Tricky words: he, she, me, we, be, was, you, they, all, are, my, her High frequency words

Phase 4 and 5 ai, oi rain, wait, train, paid, afraid oil, join, coin, point, soil Split digraphs: a–e made, came, same, take, safe e–e these, theme, i–e five, ride, like, time, side o–e home, those, woke, hope, hole u–e Both the /u:/ and /ju:/ (‘oo’ and ‘yoo’) sounds can be spelt as u–e. June, rule, rude, use, tube, tune ar car, start, park, arm, garden ee see, tree, green, meet, week ea (/i:/) (/ɛ/) (/ɜ:/) (/ə/) sea, dream, meat, each, read ea head, bread, meant, instead, er (stressed sound): her, term, verb, person er (unstressed) better, under, summer, winter, sister ir girl, bird,

Phase 6 The /i:/ sound spelt ey eg

monkey, chimney

The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu eg want,

watch, wander, quantity, squash

The /ɜ:/ sound spelt or after w eg word, work,

worm, world, worth

The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w eg words. war,

warm, towards

The /ʒ/ sound spelt s television, treasure,

usual

The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly and the rules for adding

these.

Contractions apostrophe for

ommission (e.g. can’t – cannot). can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’ll

The possessive

apostrophe (singular nouns) Megan’s, Ravi’s, the girl’s, the child’s, the

man’s

Suffix: ly, ally

Probably Prefix: tion and

sion Occasion, question

‘ei’, ‘ey’ and ‘eigh’

sounds Eight, eighth, reign, weight, height (exception)

‘ous’ words famous ‘ough’ words

though, although Words from other

countries bicycle Unstressed vowels

different, favourite, February, interest

Double consonants:

address, appear, arrive, different, difficult, opposite

Split digraph – long

vowel sounds: arrive, surprise

‘s’ sound spelt as ‘c’

before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’:

Suffix: ly, ally accidentally, actually, occasionally ‘n’ spelt as kn knowledge Prefix: tion position, mention, possession ‘or’ spelt ‘augh’ caught, naughty Adverbials: therefore ‘ous’ words various ‘ible' possible ough: enough, through, thought i spelt as u: Busy- business Adding prefixes: (dis)appear, (dis)believe, (re)build, (re)position Unstressed vowels: library, ordinary, separate Double consonants: disappear, grammar, occasion, pressure, suppose Split vowels: decide, describe, extreme, guide, S spelt as c Bicycle, decide, medicine, notice, recent Other words: breath, breathe, build, calendar, complete, continue, guard, imagine, important, island, minute, natural, often, particular, peculiar, sentence, straight, strength, surprise

Spelling patterns and rules: Unstressed vowels (see word list) Bruise Secretary Unstressed consonants According Immediate (-ly) -tion words Profession ‘ough’ letter strings Thorough ‘ie’ are adjacent Soldier Double consonants According Communicate Community Word families Familiar Symbol ‘y’ makes the ‘i’ as in ‘bin’ sound Physical Symbol System -le words Vegetable

Nouns that end in -ce/-cy. Verbs that end in –se/–sy. Adjectives ending in –ant/-ent. Nouns ending in -ance/-ancy/-ence/-ency. Hyphenated words. Words ending in -ably/-able. Creating diminutives using prefixes micro-/mini- Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters ending in -fer. Words with a long e spelt ie or ei. Words with endings that sound like shuhl after a vowel and consonant letter. Words that can be nouns and verbs. Words with a long o sound spelt ou or ow. Words spelt with the suffix -ible and –ibly. Achieve

amateur ancient Appreciate

shirt, first, third ur turn, hurt, church, burst, Thursday oo (/u:/) (/ʊ/) zoo food, pool, moon, zoo, soon oo book, took, foot, wood, good oa boat, coat, road, coach, goal oe toe, ow (/aʊ/) (/əʊ/) ow ue ew now, how, brown, down, town own, blow, snow, grow, show blue, clue, true, rescue, Tuesday new, few, grew, flew, drew, threw ie (/aɪ /) (/i:/) lie, tie, pie, cried, tried, dried ie chief, field, thief igh high, night, light, bright, right or for, short, born, horse, morning ore more, score, before, wore, shore aw saw, draw, yawn, crawl au author, August, dinosaur, astronaut a air air, fair, pair, hair, chair ear dear, hear,

Words ending in –tion station, fiction, motion,

national, section.

Homophones and near-homophones (focus on change in meaning) there/their/they’re, here/hear, quite/quiet, see/sea, bare/bear, one/won, sun/son, to/too/two, be/bee, blue/blew, night/knight

Common Exception

words door, floor, poor,

because, find, kind, mind, behind, child,

children*, wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told,

every, everybody, even, great, break, steak,

pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father,

class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve, sure,

sugar, eye, could, should, would, who, whole, any, many,

clothes, busy, people, water, again, half, money, Mr, Mrs,

parents, Christmas.

centre, century, certain, circle, consider, exercise, experience,

Other words:

answer, early, earth, experiment, group, forward(s), fruit, heard, heart, history, increase, learn, length, material, perhaps, popular, potatoes, promise, purpose, quarter, regular, remember, special, strange, woman/women

Vehicle Muscle ‘c’ makes ‘s’ sound before ‘i’, ‘e’ and ‘y’

Accompany

Accommodate

According

Aggressive

Apparent Attached

Available

Average

Bargain

Bruise

Community

Desperate

Determined

Develop

Dictionary

Environment Especially

Excellent Explanation

Familiar Forty

Frequently

Hindrance

Identity

Individual Interfere

Interrupt Marvellous

Muscle

Neighbour Occupy Occur Opportunity

Programme

Awkward

Category

Cemetery

Committee

Communication

Competition

Conscience

Conscious

Controversy

Convenience

Correspond

criticise (critic +ise)

Curiosity

Definite

Disastrous

Embarrass

equip ( -ped, -ment)

Exaggerate

Existence

Foreign

Government Guarantee

Harass

immediate(ly

language

Leisure

Lightning

Mischievous

Necessary

Nuisance

Parliament Persuade

Physical Prejudice

Privilege

Profession

Pronunciation

Queue

beard, near, year ear (/ɛə/) (/ɛə/) bear, pear, wear are bare, dare, care, share, scared Words ending –y (/i:/ or /ɪ /) very, happy, funny, party, family New consonant spellings ph and wh dolphin, alphabet, phonics, elephant when, where, which, wheel, while Using k for the /k/ sound Kent, sketch, kit, skin, frisky Adding the prefix –un unhappy, undo, unload, unfair, unlock Compound words football, playground, farmyard, bedroom, blackberry Common Exception words: the, a, do, to, today, of, said, says, are, were, was, is, his, has, I, you, your, they, be, he, me, she, we, no, go, so, by, my, here,

Recognise

Recommend

Relevant Sacrifice

Shoulder Signature

Stomach

Suggest Symbol System

Temperature

Twelfth

Variety

Vegetable

Restaurant Rhyme

Rhythm

Secretary

sincere(ly) Soldier Sufficient Thorough

Vehicle

Yacht

there, where, love, come, some, one, once, ask, friend, school, put, push, pull, full, house, our.

Sentence level

Know how to say a complete sentence.

Know that a concrete noun is something see or touch. Pig, pencil, dog.

Know that a sentence must contain an action and at least one noun. The horse jumped over the fence.

Know that a narrative is a combination of sentences based around a main idea.

Know that a verb is an action word. Jump, eat, dance.

Know that a statement is usually structured as a noun, followed by a verb and then by a further unit. The pig is fat .

Know that questions begin with: can, will, which, how, what, when, why, and who. Who is in the basement?

Know that exclamation begins with what and how. What a lovely boy you are!

Know commands are short sentences that instruct and begin with an

Know that a pronoun is used to replace nouns. The pig sat in the field. It munched happily on the grass.

Know that an adverb is used to show when, how or how often the verb is done. Tomorrow, I will eat a cake.. I greedily ate the cake. I eat cake on a regular basis.

Know that an adjective is used to add clarity and

Know what a possessive pronoun is. My, mine, our, ours, its, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your and yours.

Know a range of -ing sentence openers:

Know a larger range of sophisticated subordinating conjunctions: although, ,nevertheless, despite, contrary to, as well as.

Know what a sub-heading is.

Know the term fronted adverbial.

Know that an adverb can be used to show how something has happened; when

Know that a subordinating clause can start a sentence; appear in the middle of a sentence and end a sentence. After the pig sneezed, there was green snot everywhere. The pig, while the sheep danced , sneezed on the horse. The animals slept in the barn, as the pig sneezed.

Know what a relative pronoun is: who, whose, whom, which or that.

Know what a relative adverb is: when, where,

Know what a synonym is. (Similar meaning).

Know what an antonym is. (Opposite meaning).

Know how to write in the active voice. The pig is eating the burger.

Know how to write in the passive voice. The burger is being eaten by the pig.

imperative verb. Tidy that mess up.

Know what an expanded noun phrase is. The big, fat, smelly pig.

Know how to write verbs in the present and past tense. Today I sing a song. Yesterday I sang a song .

Know about the progressive form of verbs in the past and present tense Today, I am playing football. Yesterday, I was playing football.

Know what co-ordination is in a sentence and that a sentence can be co-ordinated with: and, but, so, or. The pig lives on the farm and eats lots of cabbages.

Know what subordination is in a sentence and that a sentence can be subordinated with: when, that, if, because. Pigs live on farms because they can roam around in the fields.

Know what a command is. Get in the back of the

definition to a noun. The smooth, black dog.

Know that a paragraph is a collection of sentences round a theme.

Know sentences written in the first person contain: I, we.

Know sentences in the second person contain you.

Know sentences in the third person contain: he, she, it, they.

Know the subordinating conjunctions: before, after, while, since, however, therefore.

Know about the perfect form of verbs in the present and past tense. I have finished my homework already. (perfect present) I had finished my homework before tea.

something has happened and where something has happened. The pig quickly ate the grass. Yesterday ,the pig ate the grass. The pig ate grass downstairs.

Know the difference between a metaphor and a simile. The pig is as plump as a podgy, pudding. The pig is a big, podgy, pudding.

Know what a prepositional phrase is. Along the busy motorway.

why. Know what a

relative clause is. The pig sniffed some pepper, which made him sneeze. The pig, who is the greediest of all the animals, ate the most food.

truck. (perfect past). Know that an

adverb is used to show how something has happened. The pig quickly ate the grass.

Know that an adverb can be used to show how something has happened and when something has happened. The pig quickly ate the grass. Yesterday the pig ate the grass.

Know that a simile can extended by using adjectives. The pig is as plump as a podgy, pudding.

Know what an imperative verb is. Get, clear, put, drive..

Know what a modal verb is. The pig might wake up in a few hours.

Know what a preposition is. I watch T.V before tea. The

pen is on the table.

Know what a subordinate clause is. After the pig sneezed, there was snot everywhere.

Know what a main clause is. There was snot everywhere.

Handwriting Know correct letter formation of lower case an upper case letters

Know how to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the correct place.

Know how to form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another in some of the writing.

Know that a space is used between words.

Know how to write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters.

Know how to use appropriate spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.

Use the diagonal and horizonal strokes needed to join some letters.

Know how to use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left not joined.

Know how to

increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting.

Know how to develop use of joins in handwriting

Know down strokes are parallel and not sloping

Know how to join double letters: ss ff

Know how to join spelling prefixes and suffixes- able

Know how to write with increasing legibility, fluency and speed.

Know which shape of a letter to use and decide whether or not to join specific letters.

Know the writing implement that is best suited for a task.

Know how to use all the appropriate joins and methods learnt in previous years.