Punctuation & Grammar (PaG) in
the New Curriculum
Phase 3
Context
• New harder curriculum
• Woven into English sessions
• PaG lesson a week
• Use of PaG throughout wider
curriculum writing
Assessment
• Aim – pupils to meet the age
expected punctuation and
grammar element
• Termly test
• Afternoon groups
Example Year 4 Questions
• Underline the adverbial phrase in this sentence:
In the afternoon, the whole class went swimming.
• Write one suffix which can be used with all of these
words:
appoint
agree
pay
• Rewrite the following words as contractions with
apostrophes:
They have =
We would =
Example of Content in Year 4
•
The difference between plural use of –s (girls)
and possessive use of –s (the girl’s bag)
• The correct use of plural possessive (the girls’
bags)
• Punctuation of direct speech (punctuation
prior to speech, inverted commas to open,
initial capital letter, closing punctiation,
inverted commas to close
Example Year 5 Questions
• Circle the two prepositions in this sentence:
There are two good toyshops in my town and one of
them is beside my house.
• Insert the correct relative pronoun to fill the gap in
this sentence:
Scotland, __________ my mother was born, is our
favourite place to go on holiday.
• Underline the subordinate clause in this sentence
While you were sleeping, I made you a lovely
breakfast
Example of Content in Year 5
• The use of relative pronouns
• Bracket, dashes & commas for parenthesis
• Commas within clauses to avoid ambiguity (A
panda eats, shoots and leaves/ a panda
eats shoots and leaves)
Example Year 6 Questions
• Rewrite this sentence using the passive voice
Leila and Joshua tidied the whole classroom while
the others went outside
• Add dashes to this sentence
On the farm which is near out school there are pigs,
goats and cows.
• Explain why a colon is used in this sentence.
In the summer, we will visit a number of people in our
family: aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.
Example of Content in Year 6
• Synonyms and antonyms
(Synonyms – two words that mean a similar thing
e.g. happy & joyful
Antonyms – opposite words e.g. happy/sad)
• Active and passive verb forms
(the dog ate the bone/ the bone was eaten by the
dog)
• Impersonal form
(It’s time for bed as against the personal form, it’s
time for you to go to bed)
Ways to help your child…
•
Use the correct terminology when you discuss
PaG with them
• Pick them up on incorrect grammar use in
speech
• Websites to help:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/Home/English
http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/literacy/