Freedom 1783 by Catherine Johnson.

Poetry and performance: The Bonfire at Night by Enid Blyton

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.

The Wolf Wilder – Katherine Rundell.

You Wouldn’t Want to be on Shackleton’s Polar Expedition by Jen Green

• Revise the “i” sound spelt “y” other than at the end of words
• Words ending in -able and -ible; -ably and –ibly
• Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in – “fer”.
• Use of the hyphen (to spell words)

• Revise sound spelt “ou”
• Revise the letter string “ure”
• Revise the suffix “sion”
• Revise words ending “gue” and “que”
• Revise words with the “ei” sound spelt “ei,” “eigh,” or “ey”
• Endings spelt “cious” or “tious”
• Homophones and other words that are often confused

• Investigate prefixes and their meanings
• Revise the suffix “ly”
• Revise the suffix “ous”
• Revise words with the “k” sound spelt “ch”
• Revise words with the “sh” sound spelt “ch”
• Revise endings spelt “cial” and “tial”
• Words containing the letter-string “ough”
• Words with ‘silent’ letters

• Investigate prefixes and their meanings
• Revise the suffix “ation”
• Endings spelt “tion,” “sion,” “ssion,” and “cian”
• words with the “i” sound spelt “ei” after c (and other ie/ei words)
• revise all previously learned homophones

• Investigate prefixes, suffixes, root words and their meanings
• Words with the “s” sound spelt “sc”
• Words ending in “ant,” “ance.” “ancy,” “ent,” “ence” and “ency”
•  Practise and check any problematic homophones from Y5-6 Spelling Appendix

• Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words.
• Know when and when not to use an apostrophe for possession in given examples

• non-chronological reports; reviews; poems;

• autobiographies; diary entries; newspaper reports; and short stories.

• book reviews; non-chronological reports;

• Haiku poetry; newspaper reports; and adventure narratives.

• Use a colon to introduce a list
• Discuss and use commas, semi-colons and colons to separate clauses effectively
• Discuss idea of ambiguity, when meaning is not clear

• Model and practise punctuating parenthesis, using pairs of commas, dashes or brackets;
• Identify ellipsis in texts
• Edit deliberate punctuation errors

• Identify and model use of hyphen
• Revise use of possessive apostrophe for singular plural nouns

• Use comma for all its purposes
• Use a single dash

• Use bullet points where appropriate
• Revise use of apostrophe
• Make decisions about punctuation, sometimes including dash, semi-colon and colon
• Discuss, highlight and analyse range of punctuation in texts.

• Types of nouns
• Relative Clauses
• Modal verbs
• Revise four types of sentences

• Identify synonyms and antonyms
• Possessive pronoun
• Expanded noun phrases

• Determiners
• Preposition phrases in sentences, including prepositions of place and time

• Use fronted adverbial ensuring correct placement of comma
• Verb forms-Active and passive
• Subjunctive verb forms

• Read and enjoy poetry, comparing its use of sentence structure and punctuation with that of prose
• Write different types of poems

• Revise word class, including pronouns, prepositions and determiners
• Strengthen and improve verbs in writing
• Write formal and informal sentences, selecting conjunctions and cohesive devices to suit level of formality
• Compare sentences in simple past with perfect past verb form