Grammar and punctuation terminology in the 2014 English National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2

Grammar and punctuation terminology in the 2014 English National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2

The table below shows the areas of grammar and punctuation covered in the new curriculum and indicates in which year groups terminology for these areas is introduced.  Once the term is introduced, it needs to be used consistently in all year groups from that point on.  This will consolidate learning and enable the terms to be absorbed into the children's vocabulary.

For the parents' version of this table, which links to explanations and activities, click here.

Area of grammar	Constructing sentences (single and multi-clause sentences)	Sentence types	Nouns and noun phrases	Adverbs and adverbial phrases	Verbs and verb phrases	Punctuation
Terminology introduced in Y1	word, sentence, capital letter, full stop		singular, plural			letter capital letter punctuation full stop question mark exclamation mark
Terminology introduced in Y2		statement, question, exclamation, command	noun, noun phrase, compound, adjective, suffix	adverb, suffix	verb, tense (past, present) present progressive, past progressive	comma, apostrophe (for missing letters and singular possession)
Terminology introduced in Y3	conjunction, clause, subordinate clause		prefix, consonant, vowel preposition word family	preposition word family	present perfect past perfect word family	inverted commas (or speech marks), direct speech
Terminology introduced in Y4			determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun	adverbial		apostrophes (for plural possession)
Terminology introduced in Y5			relative pronoun, relative clause		modal verb	parenthesis, brackets, dashes, ambiguity
Terminology introduced in Y6			subject, object, synonym, antonym		active, passive, subjunctive	ellipsis, hyphen, colon,    semi-colon, bullet points