Parent Workshop

English Y6 Miss Rawal

Year 6 Teacher

Agenda

• Grammar: Key terminology explained for Y6

• Writing

• Reading

• Questions

How do we teach grammar

at Chesterton?

• Grammar is embedded within all lessons on a daily basis.

• Key vocabulary is displayed within the classroom.

• Learning objectives are linked to explicit skills.

• Grammar interventions for those who need extra support.

• Y6 additional grammar sessions weekly.

• Y6 booster group for selected children.

• We use past SATS papers for assessment purposes.

Key terminology…

Nouns

• Nouns: A person, animal, place, thing.

• Proper nouns: A particular person, place or thing – has a capital letter. (e.g. William, Tesco, England)

• Common nouns: Name given to an ordinary thing (E.g. supermarket, mouse, ball, desk)

• Collective nouns: A collection of things taken as a whole (E.g. swarm, pack, crowd, bunch, flock)

• Abstract nouns: Refer to ideas, feelings, occasions or time – they cannot be touched (e.g. love, happiness, bravery, health, afternoon.)

• Pronouns: Replace a noun within a sentence for variation (e.g. he, she, they, it)

Key terminology…

• Adjectives: Describes the noun (blue, large, tiny, sparkly)

• Verbs: An action word (run, cry, walk, laugh)

• Adverbs: Adds more detail to the verb – how, when, where, how often

(quickly, slowly, yesterday, usually, everywhere, here, there, out)

• Prepositions: Explains position in relation to something else (e.g. next to,

above, under, over, beside)

• Conjunctions: Links sentences together (and, so, but, is, yet)

Main and subordinate clauses

• Main clause makes sense by itself.

• Subordinate clause relies on the main clause.

While I was playing outside, it started to rain.

It started to rain while I was playing outside.

It started to rain –while I was playing outside – so I ran to get cover.

Apostrophes

Possession and contraction

They’re = they are You’re = you are It’s = it is

Punctuation Pyramid

Full stop, question mark, comma, exclamation mark, ellipsis, inverted commas, apostrophe, colon, semi-colon, brackets, dash, hyphen.

Resources to support at home

• www.grammar-monster.com – KS2 grammar games

• www.sentenceplay.co.uk – KS2 writing & grammar

• http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-site/expert-help/grammar-

punctuation-and-spelling-made-easy Videos to support parents with

grammar terminology

• Book suggestion: ‘Help your kids with spelling and grammar’ by Carol

Vorderman

How can you support

spelling at home?

• Use the Look, Cover, Write, Check approach.

• Practise words at random – use timers etc.

• Play spelling games & use online resources.

• Encourage as much writing as possible at home in every day life (e.g.

shopping lists, keeping a private diary, writing your to-do list etc.)

How can you improve

your child’s writing?

• When putting spellings into sentences for homework encourage and praise

independent work which has been edited.

• Improve sentences step by step (drop in where? How? What kind of ?)

• Talking is key – verbally rehearse the sentence. Say it, say it again.

• Encourage reading out loud to check it makes sense.

The focus is on basic skills…

• Spell high frequency words.

• Use capital letters and full stops consistently.

• Use the correct tense.

• Use question marks and exclamation marks correctly.

• Joined, neat handwriting – letters regular in size.

• Writing in paragraphs.

• Writing stamina.

How can you improve your

child’s reading?

• Use a dictionary together to find the meaning of unknown words and then

find synonyms.

• Skim-reading in a set time and summarising.

• Scanning as a detective – who can find this word in the quickest time?

Thank you for

attending…

Any questions or ideas for

further areas of support?