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Year 5 Objectives Grammar – Additional Challenge
Year 5 Consolidate Year 4 and…
Words/Vocabulary Sentence Structure Text Structure Punctuation
Develop use of modality Developing sentence starters: Narrative: Use of brackets.
degrees of possibility using a Expanding adverbials
range of modal verbs : Early one misty morning… Use different ways of opening a Secure use of commas.
might, should, will, must Far beyond the forbidding story.
adverbs : mountain peaks… Use of colon following
perhaps, surely Use flashbacks as appropriate. character’s name in a play
Expanding ed starters: script.
Use empty words to add Paralysed by fear, Bruno gazed Use changes in time, place and
suspense: at the soldiers. events to link ideas across
something, no one, some one paragraphs.
Power of three:
Introduce : Long, long ago, before your time Use connecting adverbs and
Metaphor: and mine… other cohesive devices to link
Emmy was a mouse in class: she Silently, cautiously , yet ideas within paragraphs .
never answered any questions. determined…
Non-narrative:
Personification: Embedding ed and ing clause: Clear structure:
The palm trees wave goodbye. Dan, tired of waiting, dived into Introductory opening which
the cool, inviting water. engages the reader and makes
Onomatopoeia The witch, cackling hideously, the purpose of the text explicit.
The water gurgled into a crack snatched the golden bag.
in the rocks. Middle section, giving
Varying sentence length for information – paragraphed
Develop the use of technical meaning and effect. appropriately, with ideas linked
language as appropriate. in and across paragraphs
Experiment with order in
sentences for impact: Ending which appeals to the
Sobbing piteously, she ran out reader.
of the crowded room.
She ran out of the room, sobbing Writer’s viewpoint clear and
piteously. maintained throughout.
Use of rhetorical questions.
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