Writing Curriculum Progression Map - Key Knowledge and skills
Nursery
N/A
Grammar
Reception
Write short sentences with words with known letter sound correspondences using a capital letter and full stop
Year 1
To use finger spaces. Beginning to use capital letters at the start of a sentence. To use capital letters for proper nouns and I. Beginning to use full stops at the end of sentences. Beginning to use and identify question marks and exclamation marks. To use adjectives to describe. Using ‘and’ to join clauses and words independently.
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
To mostly use capital letters for proper nouns and I.
Possessive apostrophe for regular plurals and irregular plurals.
Consistently organise writing into simple paragraphs around a theme.
Create complex sentences omitting the relative pronoun.
Extending sentences with more than one clause using a range of conjunctions.
Fronted adverbials followed by a comma consistently.
To use relative clauses beginning with a relative pronoun.
Use devices to build cohesion: conjunctions, adverbials, pronouns, synonyms and antonym within and across paragraphs.
Use present perfect form of verbs.
Use a colon before a list.
Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.
Use a range of subordinating conjunctions.
Possessive apostrophe (singular). Correctly using: full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks. To use commas for lists. To use apostrophes for contracted forms. To use different sentences: statement, question, exclamation and command To use expanded noun phrases. To use adverbs. To use the correct tense consistently, including the progressive form. To use subordination (using when, if, that, or because). To use coordination (using or, and, or but).
Use a range of adverbs. Punctuate direct speech mostly correctly. Use a and an correctly. Pronouns to avoid repetition. Use contractions. Use commas to separate clauses.
Use possessive apostrophe for single and plural nouns. Use verb inflections correctly (we were not we was). Use expanded noun phrases with prepositions. Punctuate direct speech correctly and start a new paragraph for a new speaker. Modify adjectives and prepositional phrases – the strict teacher with curly hair.
Consistently use brackets, dashes or commas for parenthesis.
Use verb tenses consistently and correctly throughout their writing. Use the range of punctuation taught Improve writing by using semi colons. Explore and use active and passive. Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity. Improve own writing by using subjunctive forms.