GPAS
The National Curriculum 2014 has highlighted the importance of teaching children explicit knowledge of Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. Building this knowledge is best achieved through a focus on grammar within the teaching of reading, writing and speaking. Once pupils are familiar with a concept they will be encouraged to use this in their speech and writing.
The concepts introduced in Year 5 are: further suffixes and prefixes; spelling silent letter words; a knowledge of morphology and entymology; homophones and how to use a thesaurus.
| Word | Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes [for example, –ate; –ise; –ify]
Verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–] |
| Sentence | Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun
Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs [for example, perhaps, surely] or modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must] |
| Text | Devices to build cohesion within a paragraph [for example, then, after that, this, firstly]
Linking ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time [for example, later], place [for example, nearby] and number [for example, secondly] or tense choices [for example, he had seen her before] |
| Punctuation | Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity |
| Terminology for pupils | modal verb, relative pronoun
relative clause parenthesis, bracket, dash cohesion, ambiguity |
Spelling
Spelling in Year 5 is taken from the National Curriculum 2014. The table below lists the statutory requirements for Years 5-6.
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