Phonics for children aged 4-5

• Teach all the 42 letter sounds

• Teach letter formation

• Introduce tricky words

• Develop blending skills for reading

• Teach segmenting skills for spelling

• Introduce alternative spellings of vowels

• Early independent reading and writing

Grammar 1 for children aged 5-6

• Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

• Vowel digraphs

• Alternative spellings of vowels

• Plural endings

• Short vowels and consonant doubling

• Consonant blends

• Develop basic sentence structure

• Alphabet order

 

Grammar 2 for children aged 6-7

• Irregular verbs, possessive adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, parsing

• Comparatives and superlatives

• Dictionary and thesaurus skills

• Expand punctuation skills

• Silent letters

• Syllables

• New spelling rules and patterns introduced

 

Grammar 3 for children aged 7-8

• Proper adjectives, nouns acting as adjectives, collective nouns

• Pronouns - possessive/subject and object

• The present participle and continuous tenses

• Paragraphs

• Subject and object in a sentence

• Conjunctions

• Questions and exclamations in speech

 

Grammar 4 for children aged 8-9

• Nouns acting as concrete/abstract/possessives

• The present participle as an adjective

• Onomatopoeia

• Clauses/independent clauses

• Agreements

• Hyphens

• Parsing verbs

• Infinitives

 

Grammar 5 for children aged 9-10

• Simple and continuous sentences

• Adverb placement in sentences

• Proofreading

• Compound subjects and objects

• Adverbs of manner, degree & place, time & frequency

• Parenthesis

• Homophones

• Antonyms and synonyms

 

Grammar 6 for children aged 10-11

• Prefixes & suffixes

• Alternative spellings

• New spelling patterns

• Silent letters

• Schwas

• Definite & indefinite articles

• Countable & uncountable nouns

• Semi colons & colons

• Sentence structure

• Literary devices

• Formal & informal writing