Long Term Plan – Grammar Progression
Week
commencing
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Proper nouns –people.
Personal titles. (Mr.)
Proper nouns – places.
Capital letters and full
stops
Question marks
Capital letters and full
stops
Commas in a list
Exclamation marks
Question marks
Commas in a list
Exclamation marks
29.09.2014
Proper nouns – days
and months.
Capital letters and full
stops in a sentence.
Question marks.
Punctuation
- . A , ? ! () - : ; … “”
- ‘ for possession
- ‘ for omission
- , in a clause
Proper nouns (All)
Brackets
06.10.2014
Exclamation marks
Common nouns
Dashes
13.10.2014
Common nouns
Apostrophes for
omission
20.10.2014
Adjectives
Adjectives
Connective openers and
commas – level 4 and 5
(correct use of despite)
Embedded clauses
03.11.2014
Superlatives (biggest,
smallest, most
interesting etc)
Comparatives (bigger,
smaller, more
interesting etc).
Verbs – regular past
tense. (-ed)
Articles (a and an) and
silent ‘h’
Pronouns (my, his,
yours, hers)
Antonyms
(opposite words).
Adverbs
Verbs - identifying
Proper nouns
Adverbs
Common nouns
Regular verb endings
Collective nouns
Simple sentence – has
1 verb.
The verb ‘to be’.
02.09.2014
08.09.2014
Autumn 1
15.09.2014
22.09.2014
Autumn 2
10.11.2014
17.11.2014
24.11.2014
01.12.2014
08.12.2014
15.12.2014
05.01.2015
12.01.2015
Spring 1
Year
19.01.2015
26.01.2015
02.02.2014
Collective nouns (eg a
team of players, a
school of fish etc.)
Inverted commas
Abstract nouns
Did and done
Inverted commas
Was and were
Pronouns
Antonyms
Articles – a, an, the
The verb ‘to be’
Plurals
Pronoun, verb
agreement. (I am, they
are, we are etc.)
Inverted commas
Pronouns
Collective nouns
Word classes identifying
Grammar
- Nouns (common,
collective, abstract
and proper)
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Verbs (verb to be,
regular and irregular
verbs)
- Pronouns
- Connectives
- Article
- Preposition
- Clauses (main,
subordinate,
embedded,
dependent)
- Phrases
- First, second and
third person
- Direct and reported
speech
- Figures of speech
(similes, metaphors,
personification)
- Antonyms and
synonyms
- Comparatives and
superlatives
- Connective and verb
openers
- Active and passive
voice
- Double negatives
- Standard and nonstandard English
- Homophones
- Homographs
09.02.2014
Compound sentences.
Abstract nouns
23.02.2015
Apostrophe for
omission.
Apostrophe for
possession.
Spring 2
02.03.2015
09.03.2015
Superlatives
Connectives – when,
because, until, before
Adjective phrase (red,
shiny dress)
Connective openers
and commas
Brackets
Antonyms
23.03.2015
Plurals
Dashes
13.04.2015
Apostrophe for
possession.
Word classes (identify
noun, adjective, verb,
adverb etc.)
Homophones (same
sound, different spelling
– I and eye
- Sore and saw
The verb ‘to be’
16.03.2015
Summer 1
20.04.2015
27.04.2015
Commas in a list.
04.05.2015
Dependent clauses: If
and then (with a
comma)
Abstract nouns (joy,
sadness, hunger)
11.05.2015
18.05.2015
01.06.2015
08.06.2015
15.06.2015
Summer 2
Comparatives
22.06.2015
29.07.2015
Synonyms
Colon at the start of a
list
First, second and third
person
Articles
Comparatives
Double negatives
Superlatives
Correct use of verbs:
Done and did
Was and were
Write and wrote
Draw and drew
Catch and caught
Think and thought
Give and gave
Identifying word
classes
-noun, verb, adjective
and adverb
Singular and plurals
Avoidance of nonstandard dialect words.
Reported speech
Main and subordinate
clauses
Prepositions of time
More complex
connectives
Prepositions of place
06.07.2015
Indirect speech
Verb openers.
13.07.2015
Compound words