Expectations in English

All year groups have heightened expectations

End of year 2Punctuation-• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks, and

exclamation marks.Grammar and spelling terminology-• Noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation,

command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense- past and present, apostrophe, comma

End of year 3Punctuation-• All of year 2 elements and inverted commas to punctuate

direct speechSpelling and Grammar terminology-• Preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause,

subordinate clause, direct speech, consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter, inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

• End of year 4Punctuation-

Inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech, apostrophes to mark plural possession ( the girl’s name, the girls’ name), use of commas after fronted adverbials (Before we begin, make sure you have a pencil)

Spelling and Grammar terminology-Determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, adverbial, plural, possessive, standard English

End of year 5-Punctuation-• Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis, use of

commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.Spelling and Grammar terminology-• Modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis,

bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity, converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes, verb prefixes

End of year 6-Punctuation-• Semi colon, colon and dash to mark boundary between

independent clauses ( It’s raining; I’m fed up),use of colon to introduce a list and semi-colons within a list, hyphens to avoid ambiguity ( man eating shark/ man-eating shark)

Spelling and Grammar terminology-• Subject, object, active, passive, synonym, antonym, ellipsis,

hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points

Spelling expectationsWord lists for years 3 and 4-accidentallybusinessdisappearincreaseknowledgeoccasionallyPossessionQuestionSentenceSeparatealthough

Word lists for years 5 and 6-accommodateachieveconscienceconvenienceexaggerate frequentlyguaranteeMischievousnecessaryparliamenttwelfth

Reading expectations• Reading stamina- end of year 6 test expects at least 90 words

a minute.

• Reading comprehension- inference- hidden meaning

• Talking about reading is key.

Quality Marking and proving targets in English