In Year 5, children need to understand that adverbials tell us when, where, why or how a verb happens. They are used to give us more information and make our writing more interesting. For example: He tripped and fell because his laces were undone. – because his laces were undone, tells us why it happened …
In Year 6, children need to understand that there are many words in the English language which sound the same, but are often spelt differently. They also have completely different meanings, such as: Plain and plane. If a word has the same spelling and same sound but a different meaning, it is called a homonym. …
In Year 4, children need to understand plurals and be able to use them correctly; adding the correct ending like ‘es, ies, s, ves’ or irregular endings, such as ‘women’, for woman or ‘geese’ for goose and so on. These words change the structure of a sentence, when the plural suffixes are changed in the …