Grammar and punctuation through primary school
Grammar and punctuation from Year 1 to Year 6: 18 topics, each building on the year before. A gap in one year tends to show up in the next, so this is the order to look back through when something isn't sticking.
Practise grammar and punctuation at the right level
Daily challenges that start from what your child already knows in this topic, close gaps from earlier years first and keep pace with their school year.
- Capital letters and full stopsSpring 1
- Statements, questions and exclamationsAutumn 2
- Past and present tenseSpring 1
- Joining wordsSpring 2
- Nouns, verbs and adjectivesSummer 1
- Describing words and noun phrasesSummer 1
- Conjunctions, prepositions and adverbsSpring 1
- Inverted commas for speechSpring 2
- Fronted adverbials and noun phrasesSpring 1
- Apostrophes and commasSpring 2
- Standard English and pronounsSummer 1
- Relative clauses and modal verbsSpring 1
- Brackets and commas for claritySpring 2
- Making verbs and verb prefixesSummer 1
- Linking ideas across sentencesSummer 2
- The passive voice and formal languageSpring 1
- Colons, semi-colons and hyphensSpring 2
- Word classesSummer 1
Topics from the national curriculum programmes of study for english, in the half term they usually come. A school's own timing can differ by a few weeks.
Helping at home
- When they write a card or a list, ask them to add a full stop, a capital or a comma in the right place.
- Swap a plain word for a better one together: "said" for "whispered", "big" for "enormous".
Other english topics
Practise grammar and punctuation at the right level
Daily challenges that start from what your child already knows in this topic, close gaps from earlier years first and keep pace with their school year.