English – Word
Subject Key Objective Progression & Development by Year Groups
The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.
All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
The curriculum is designed with our pupils and the Swinemoor community in mind.
It enables children to access and enhance their understanding of their home, their town and the wider community, developing their cultural capital and giving them opportunities and choices about their future and their impact as they progress through their school career and beyond.
This will help them become successful members of modern British society, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities.
ENGLISH – Word
EYFS: “Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds”
KS1: “Using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs.”
“Add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly.”
KS2: “Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals.”
“The grammatical difference between plural and possessive –s.”
“How words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms.”
EYFS:
Alphabet (T1)
Singular (T1)
Plural (T1)
KS1:
Prefix (T2)
Suffix (T2)
Syllable (T2)
KS2:
Possessive noun (T2)
Synonym (T2)
Antonym (T2)
Children may demonstrate an understanding of words (including root words) from different languages, cultures and periods of history.
This will help them to develop an understanding of the richness of the English language as well as the complexity.
It may also give them some awareness of the variety of influences on the English language and culture alongside an appreciation for different dialects and accents.
What will be made, produced, performed, or published?
Children will demonstrate their understanding of spelling through correct usage in portfolio work across a range of subjects.
Children will produce a spelling wall of their individual spellings that they have practised.
Children may eventually compete in a ‘Spelling-Bee’ style of competition.
What knowledge will the children have embedded?
Children will be able to combine letters into progressively complex words.
Their spellings will begin as phonetically plausible and will develop into an understanding of root words and word families; appropriate use of suffixes and prefixes; and recognising and using homophones correctly.
They will understand and use the correct terminology.
What retention may be demonstrated?
Here are some example questions that may be used to assess children’s understanding.
EYFS: Write the word ‘dog’. What is the plural of dog? (Or other simple word that follows the ‘add -s’ rule.)
KS1: What is the plural of fox? Can you write it down? Add a suffix to the word ‘help’ to change it into another word.
KS2: Why is there an apostrophe in ‘The girl’s dress’? Tell me a synonym and an antonym for the word ‘big’.
English – Word – Primary Curriculum
English – Word – Foundation stage:
Children write words, including plurals, using their phonic knowledge.
English – Word – Year 1:
Children learn how to make a noun plural by adding the suffix -s or -es
English – Word – Year 2:
Children learn how to make nouns plural by adding a suffix, and they learn how to change a noun by adding suffixes such as -ness and -er.
English – Word – Year 3:
Children learn how to use suffixes to change nouns and adjectives; they also learn how to form nouns using a range of prefixes.
English – Word – Year 4:
Children learn the difference between adding the suffix -s to make a noun plural and adding apostrophe (‘) s to make a possessive noun.
English – Word – Year 5:
Children learn how to convert nouns or adjectives into verbs, using suffixes.
English – Word – Year 6:
Children learn how to use suffixes and prefixes in different contexts; they should also understand how words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms.
English – Word – Mastery:
Children confidently and regularly use prefixes, suffixes, synonyms and antonyms in a variety of contexts.
This collection of short films and resources will help you understand your child’s progression through school.
The curriculum film resource has been broken down by subject area initially and then by topic area.
