Grammar and Punctuation Tails – Active Learning

Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies

Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction

Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement

Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases

Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause

Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating)

Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea