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Year 5 Objectives: Writing

VOCABULARY, PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR Use the terminology:

Develop understanding of grammatical features Relative clause, modal verb, relative pronoun,
parenthesis, bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity
Use cohesive devices (connecting adverbs and adverbials)
to link ideas within paragraphs. Understand the terminology.
Use the terminology to talk about own writing.
Use cohesive devices (connecting adverbs and adverbials)
to link ideas across paragraphs.

Use modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of
possibility.

Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where,
when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative
pronoun.

Indicate grammatical features with punctuation

Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing.

Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.

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