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Key Stage 2· Years 3–6

KS2 English

Grammar, punctuation, spelling and reading — the SPaG skills that open up great writing.

Start with “Word classes”

You will learn to…

  • Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in any sentence
  • Use fronted adverbials with a comma
  • Punctuate direct speech correctly
  • Infer what characters think and feel from clues in a text
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Grammar

Word classes, clauses and sentence types.

  1. Word classesNouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs — what job is each word doing?20 min · Y3
  2. Fronted adverbialsStart sentences with when, where or how — and remember the comma.15 min · Y4
  3. Punctuating direct speechComing soonInverted commas, new speakers and new lines.
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Reading

Retrieval, inference and vocabulary.

  1. Inference: reading between the linesComing soonUse clues to work out what a character feels.
  2. Retrieval: finding the factsComing soonSkim and scan to find answers quickly.