Year 6 Long Term Plan for English |
Tell the meaning of many new words. |
Read many words that they have not encountered before. |
Discuss with confidence a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference/text books. |
Read and understand a variety of different literary structures. |
Read and understand books written for a wide range of different purposes. |
Enjoy a wide variety of different fiction genres including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction and fiction from history, and books from other cultures and traditions. |
Recommend books to their friends and discuss why they like them and what could be better about them. |
Identify and discuss the themes and conventions of many stories. |
Recite many poems from memory. |
Prepare and direct a play for performance. |
Sense-check texts for meaning. |
Ask questions to improve their understanding. |
Infer information about the feelings, thoughts and motives of characters from what they are reading. |
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied. |
Summarise the main ideas in a text of several paragraphs. |
Tell how the language, structure and presentation add to the meaning of a text, giving examples. |
Discuss and evaluate how authors use language to impact the reader. |
Retrieve, record and present information from a variety of non-fiction sources. |
Participate in classroom discussions with my peers about books that they have read, or that somebody has read or summarised for them. |
Explain and discuss what they have read through formal presentation. |
Provide a reasoned argument to support their views. |
Use a variety of prefixes and suffixes. |
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters. |
Distinguish between homophones by their spelling. |
Spell the words they have been taught. |
Use a dictionary to check the spelling and meaning of words. |
Use a thesaurus to find alternative words with the same meaning. |
Identify audience and write with them in mind. |
Draft work developing initial ideas and researching where necessary. |
Consider how authors have developed characters and settings and use that knowledge to plan own work. |
Select and use the correct grammar and explain how choices can change and enhance meaning. |
Write a short précis of a longer passage. |
Use organisational and presentational devices to structure stories. |
Assess the effectiveness of writing and other people’s writing. |
Suggest changes to the vocabulary, grammar and punctuation they have used to improve the writing. |
Check work to ensure that the correct tense is used. |
Check work to ensure that the correct subject and verb agreement is used. |
Check work for spelling and punctuation errors. |
Write cursive text legibly, fluently and with increasing speed. |
Punctuate direct and indirect speech. |
Use passive verbs. |
Use the perfect form of verbs. |
Use expanded noun phrases. |
Use modal verbs or adverbs. |
Use relative clauses. |
Use commas; hyphens; brackets for parenthesis. |
Use semi-colons, colons and dashes as boundaries between independent clauses. |
Use a colon to introduce a list. |
Punctuate bullet points. |
Use the grammar they have learned. |