Key Terminology
Key English vocabulary
The terminology below is introduced to pupils during the school year indicated. It is revisited constantly during English lessons as is the key vocabulary from previous years.
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Year group |
Terminology introduced |
|---|---|
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Reception |
capital letter, full stop, sentence. |
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Year 1 |
question mark, exclamation mark, statement, question, noun, adjective, past tense, present tense, |
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Year 2 |
proper noun, verb, command, exclamation, comma, expanded noun phrase, subordinate conjunction, co-ordinating conjunction, progressive tense, regular and irregular verbs, apostrophe, suffix, |
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Year 3 |
determiners, word family, prefix, main and subordinate clause, perfect tense, inverted commas, consonant, vowel, adverb, preposition, word class, direct speech |
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Year 4 |
fronted adverbials, clause, phrase, modifying adjectives, prepositional phrase, |
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Year 5 |
abstract noun, modal verb, reported speech, colon, relative pronoun, brackets, parenthesis, |
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Year 6 |
passive verb, active verb, hyphen, semi-colons, colons or dashes between clauses, ellipsis, subjunctive |
