Parent Workshop
English Y6
Miss Rawal
Year 6 Teacher
Agenda
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Grammar: Key terminology explained for Y6
Writing
Reading
Questions
How do we teach grammar
at Chesterton?
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Grammar is embedded within all lessons on a daily basis.
Key vocabulary is displayed within the classroom.
Learning objectives are linked to explicit skills.
Grammar interventions for those who need extra support.
Y6 additional grammar sessions weekly.
Y6 booster group for selected children.
We use past SATS papers for assessment purposes.
Key terminology…
Nouns
• Nouns: A person, animal, place, thing.
• Proper nouns: A particular person, place or thing – has a capital letter. (e.g. William, Tesco,
England)
• Common nouns: Name given to an ordinary thing (E.g. supermarket, mouse, ball, desk)
• Collective nouns: A collection of things taken as a whole (E.g. swarm, pack, crowd, bunch,
flock)
• Abstract nouns: Refer to ideas, feelings, occasions or time – they cannot be touched (e.g.
love, happiness, bravery, health, afternoon.)
• Pronouns: Replace a noun within a sentence for variation (e.g. he, she, they, it)
Key terminology…
• Adjectives: Describes the noun (blue, large, tiny, sparkly)
• Verbs: An action word (run, cry, walk, laugh)
• Adverbs: Adds more detail to the verb – how, when, where, how often
(quickly, slowly, yesterday, usually, everywhere, here, there, out)
• Prepositions: Explains position in relation to something else (e.g. next to,
above, under, over, beside)
• Conjunctions: Links sentences together (and, so, but, is, yet)
Main and subordinate clauses
• Main clause makes sense by itself.
• Subordinate clause relies on the main clause.
While I was playing outside, it started to rain.
It started to rain while I was playing outside.
It started to rain –while I was playing outside – so I ran to get cover.
Apostrophes
Possession and contraction
They’re = they are
You’re = you are
It’s = it is
Punctuation Pyramid
Full stop, question mark,
comma, exclamation
mark, ellipsis, inverted
commas, apostrophe,
colon, semi-colon,
brackets, dash, hyphen.
Resources to support at home
• www.grammar-monster.com – KS2 grammar games
• www.sentenceplay.co.uk – KS2 writing & grammar
• http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-site/expert-help/grammarpunctuation-and-spelling-made-easy Videos to support parents with
grammar terminology
• Book suggestion: ‘Help your kids with spelling and grammar’ by Carol
Vorderman
How can you support
spelling at home?
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Use the Look, Cover, Write, Check approach.
Practise words at random – use timers etc.
Play spelling games & use online resources.
Encourage as much writing as possible at home in every day life (e.g.
shopping lists, keeping a private diary, writing your to-do list etc.)
How can you improve
your child’s writing?
• When putting spellings into sentences for homework encourage and praise
independent work which has been edited.
• Improve sentences step by step (drop in where? How? What kind of ?)
• Talking is key – verbally rehearse the sentence. Say it, say it again.
• Encourage reading out loud to check it makes sense.
The focus is on basic skills…
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Spell high frequency words.
Use capital letters and full stops consistently.
Use the correct tense.
Use question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
Joined, neat handwriting – letters regular in size.
Writing in paragraphs.
Writing stamina.
How can you improve your
child’s reading?
• Use a dictionary together to find the meaning of unknown words and then
find synonyms.
• Skim-reading in a set time and summarising.
• Scanning as a detective – who can find this word in the quickest time?
Thank you for
attending…
Any questions or ideas for
further areas of support?