Year 6 Vocabulary, Grammar & Punctuation

Year 6 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation worksheets, printables, online games, links and other resources.

What the curriculum says...

Pupils should be taught to:

♦ develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 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 (ie omitted) relative pronoun
• learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English appendix 2

♦ 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 semicolons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
• using a colon to introduce a list
• punctuating bullet points consistently

♦ use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading