Stewart Fleming Primary School The Pioneer Academy Terminology for Pupils Year 1 Phoneme Grapheme Diagraph Trigraph Split diagraph Vowel Consonant Full stop Question mark comma Year 2 See Year 1 plus Verb Noun Adjective Vowel Consonant Prefix Suffix Compound Word Singular Plural Syllable Present tense Past tense Ellipsis Apostrophe Root word Simple sentence Compound sentence Connectives Year 3 Year 4 See Year 1 and 2 plus Pro noun Adverbs Regular verb Irregular verb Irregular plurals Comparatives Apostrophes for contractions Speech marks Exclamation marks Silent letters See year 1,2,3 plus Homophone Letter strings Affixes Irregular plural Spelling rules Phrase Clause Adverbials Apostrophe for possession Adverbs conjunctions Year 5 See year 1,2,3 and 4 plus Unstressed vowels Brackets Dash Colon Semi-colon Polysyllabic Consonant rules Less common prefixes Less common suffixes Subordinate clauses Year 6 See year 1,2,3 ,4 and 5 plus All of previous years words revisions throughout year