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Children will learn...
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They will be able to...
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To write with purpose
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- Identify the audience for writing
- Choose the appropriate form of writing using the main features identified in reading
- Note, develop and research ideas
- Plan, draft, write, edit and improve
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To use imaginative description
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- Use the techniques that authors use to create characters, settings and plots
- Create vivid images by using alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification
- Interweave descriptions of characters, settings and atmosphere with dialogue
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To organise writing appropriately
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- Guide the reader by using a range of organisational devises, including a range of connectives
- Choose effective grammar and punctuation and propose changes to improve clarity
- Ensure correct use of tenses throughout a piece of writing
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To use paragraphs
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- Write paragraphs that give the reader a sense of clarity
- Write paragraphs that make sense if read alone
- Write cohesively at length
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To use sentences appropriately
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- Write sentences that include:
- Relative clauses
- Modal verbs
- Relative pronouns
- Brackets
- Parenthesis
- A mixture of active and passive voice
- A clear subject and object
- Hyphens, colons and semi colons
- Bullet points
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To present neatly
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- Write fluently and legibly with a personal style
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To spell correctly
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- Use prefixes, applying guidelines for adding them
- Spell some words with silent letters (knight, psalm, solemn)
- Distinguish between homophones and other words that are often confused
- Use knowledge or morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that some words need to be learnt specifically
- Use dictionaries to check spelling and meaning of words
- Use the first three or four letters of a word to look up the meaning or spelling of words in a dictionary
- Use a thesaurus
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To punctuate accurately
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- Develop understanding of writing concepts by:
- Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
- Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
- Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
- Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
- Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
- Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
- Indicate grammatical and other features by
- Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
- Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
- Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
- Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
- Using a colon to introduce a list
- Punctuating bullet points consistently
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To analyse writing
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- Use and understand grammatical terminology when discussing writing and reading
Year 5
- Relative clause, modal verb, relative pronoun, parenthesis, bracket, dash, determiner, cohesion, ambiguity
Year 6
- Active and passive voice, subject and object, hyphen, synonym, colon, semi-colon, bullet points
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To present writing
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- Perform compositions, using appropriate intonation and volume
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