Coberley C of E Primary School

Using paragraphs to organise ideas
Describing settings and characters
Use cohesive devices within and across sentences
Using verb forms accurately
Using co-ordinating (FANBOYS) and subordinating conjunctions
Using capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contraction.
Spelling most words correctly (Year 3 & 4)
Spelling some words correctly (Year 5 & 6)
Produce legible joined handwriting

Creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
Selecting vocab and grammatical structures that reflect the level of formality required.
Using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials.
Using passive and modal verbs
Using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence.
Using adverbs, prepositional phraces and expanded noun phrases
Use inverted commas, commas, semi colons, colons, dashes, hyphens and ellipses
Spelling most words correctly (Year 5 & 6)
Joined up handwriting

Managing shifts of formality through selecting vocabulary precisely and by manipulating grammatical structures.
Selecting verb forms for meaning and effect
Using a full range of punctuation

Writing Glossary

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