Greenmount -
a Pathway to Success
Features | Grammar | Punctuation | |
Year One | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Co-ordinating conjunctions - link ideas with "and" Adverbs/adverbials of place Expanded noun phrases - add detail to ouns with under, around, next to, above, with | Capital letters for proper nouns |
Year Two | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Co-ordinating conjunctions - but, or, and Subordinating conjunctions - expand upon independent clauses with if, when or because Expanded noun phrases - add details to nouns with of, from, under, around, surrounding, next to, above, with Statements - simple facts Questions - invite the reader to know more Commands/imperative - use these with if | Capital letters for proper nouns Commas for lists Apostrophes for possession |
Year Three | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Co-ordinating conjunctions - but, or, so, yet, and Subordinating conjunctions - even if, if, so that, when, because Expanded noun phrases with of, from, under, around, surrounding, next to, above, with Present perfect tense Collective nouns | Commas - for lists Apostrophes for possession |
Year Four | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Co-ordinating conjunctions - but, or, so, yet, and Subordinating conjunctions - even if, if, so that, when, because Expanded noun phrases with of, from, under, around, surrounding, next to, above, with Present perfect tense | Commas - for lists Apostrophes for possession Commas after fronted adverbials |
Year Five | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Subordinating conjunctions - even if, if, so that, wherever, whenever, when Relative clauses to embed extra information Conjunctive adverbs to introduce additional points, similar points, opposite points, results, transition phrases, summarising phrases | Commas for lists Apostrophes for possession Parentheses with brackets, commas or dashes |
Year Six | A heading to introduce the topic Subheadings to organise the text into categories Technical vocabulary Pictures and captions Third person - formal Statements giving factual information | Passive voice Subordinating conjunctions - even if, if, so that, wherever, whenever, when Relative clauses to embed extra information Conjunctive adverbs to introduce additional points, similar points, opposite points, results, transition phrases, summarising phrases | Semi-colons Colons Apostrophes for possession Parentheses with brackets, commas or dashes
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