Download Year 5 Vocabulary Grammar and Punctuation

Year 5 Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
The information below gives guidance on the learning your child should be secure in by the end
of the academic year.
CONTENT
WORD SKILLS
Converting nouns or adjectives into
verbs using suffixes
Verb prefixes
SENTENCE
SKILLS
Relative clauses beginning with
who, which, where, when, whose,
that, or an omitted relative pronoun
TEXT SKILLS
PUNCTUATION
SKILLS
Indicating degrees of possibility
using adverbs (for example,
perhaps, surely) or modal verbs
(for example, might, should, will,
must)
Devices to build cohesion within a
paragraph
Children may use then, after that, this, firstly, to
effectively organise their writing for meaning.
Linking ideas across paragraphs
using adverbials of time, place and
number or tense choices
cohesion
Linking ideas using words/phrases that describe the
action in a sentence using;
Time, i.e. later
Place, i.e. nearby
Number, i.e. secondly
Tense, i.e. he had seen her before
An amplifying or explanatory word, phrase, or
sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually
set off by punctuation including brackets, dashes and
commas (see below)
You can use commas to separate things in a list. You
can also use them to mark out the less important part
of a sentence (the dependent clause).
The principal English modal verbs are can, could, may,
might, must, shall, should, will and would.
Brackets are punctuation marks, used in pairs to set
apart or interject text within other text. They are used
to contain optional or additional material in a sentence
that could be removed without destroying the meaning
of the main text. Brackets may be used to add
supplementary information,
Relative clauses. Relative clauses are clauses starting
with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose,
where, when. They are most often used to define or
identify the noun that precedes them.
An amplifying or explanatory word, phrase, or
sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually
set off by punctuation i.e. dash, bracket
The dash (—) is a mark of punctuation used to set off
a word or phrase after an independent clause or to set
off a remark (i.e., words, phrases, or clauses that
interrupt a sentence).
To effectively organise their writing for meaning.
ambiguity
Something can be understood in more than one way.
Brackets, dashes or commas to
indicate parenthesis
Use of commas to clarify meaning
or avoid ambiguity
TERMINOLOGY modal verb
These are the
words your child
should
understand and
be able to use
correctly
EXPLANATION
Change names of objects and words that describe
them in to action words by adding –ate; –ise; –ify
Add prefixes to action words dis–, de–, mis–, over–
and re–
A clause is a group of words with its own subject and
verb. An independent (main) clause is a complete
sentence; a dependent (subordinate) clause is part of
a sentence. A dependent clause cannot stand alone.
Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. The
most common relative pronouns are who, whom,
whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use
depends on what we are referring to and the type of
relative clause.
Adverbs are words that describe a verb. In this case
perhaps, and surely may be used. Modal verbs are
can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and
would. Certain other verbs are sometimes, but not
always.
bracket
relative pronoun
relative clause
parenthesis
dash