1. Engaging readers and inspiring writers
Assessing pupils and ensuring progress at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Maddy Barnes
Literacy consultant

2. GaPS & Picture books

3. Year 2 terminology
Noun, noun phrase statement, question, exclamation, command compound, suffix adjective, adverb, verb tense (past, present) apostrophe, comma

5. Introduction to nouns and adjectives
Mole loved labelling things. All sorts of things. Anything really. Naming things was what Mole liked best.

6. Commas in a list
“That does it!” yelled Mole. “You’re a slurpy, burpy, lumpy, bumpy, greedy, naughty… THING!”

7. Year 1 terminology
Letter, capital letter word, singular, plural sentence punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation

9. Simple sentences
It soared high above the Queen. It wooshed high above the Queen’s men.

10. Capital letters Trafalgar Square London Zoo London Underground
London Eye
Big Ben
Tower Bridge
Kensington Palace

11. Year 3 terminology
preposition, conjunction word family, prefix clause, subordinate clause direct speech
consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)

13. Use of the apostrophe Can’t Don’t Driver’s He’d It’s Hasn’t Wouldn’t
Basket’s
They’re
What’s
I’ve
Haven’t

14. Conjunctions
And
When If
Then
But So

15. Year 4 terminology Determiner pronoun, possessive pronoun adverbial
Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes
[for example, –ate; –ise; –ify]
Verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–]

17. Verbs shuffling and juggling squirming and twitching
wriggling and fiddling
playing
stop
painting
said
cried
tried
walked
excite
stroking
forget
mess
poking
skipped
kicked
snapped
walloped
squawked
were

18. Inverted commas
“STOP!” shouted Izzy at the top of her voice. “Stop squealing, squawking, splashing and flapping. Enough running, roaming, ramming and bumping. No more jiggling, wriggling, shuffling and squirming!”

19. Year 5 terminology
Modal verb, relative pronoun relative clause parenthesis, bracket, dash cohesion, ambiguity

21. Punctuation for effect
NO, PLEASE. Look at me. Would I LIE to you? It was the old woman who started it. I did nothing wrong. Would I? We hit it off from the beginning. Not everyone likes a wolf, do they? Look at you. You’re not certain. Would you like to come and sit a bit closer while I tell you about the kid? I don’t bite. No? Sure? Okay. Up to you.

22. Vocabulary Altered Versatile Vegetarian cuisine Speciality
‘pass the time of day with her’
Scooted
Frock
I was this close to being a fur wrap!
I won’t make a meal of it!

23. Year 6 terminology
Subject, object active, passive synonym, antonym ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points

25. Expanded noun phrases Every last boring, crunchy flake
The cereal people
Grizzly bear
Grumpy mum
Absolutely no free lion
Cranky old crocodile
Bathroom-hogging crocodile
Whacking great gorilla

28. Adjectives Challenging chair Cheerful chair Treasure map Hairy string
Diamond ring
Troubled father

29. Prepositions In
Back
From Of

32. Correcting non-standard English
I go see Gramma with cakes
No touch my cakes
I not scared
Not lello flowers. RED!
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