Year 7
Nouns
1.Nouns, concrete, abstract, proper
2.Connotations of nouns and nouns to create character
3.Choosing specific nouns, nouns to craft figurative language, nomenclature
4.Pronouns and effects
5.Noun phrases, crafting for effect, noun phrases in description
6.Synonyms, appositive phrases, appositive phrases in narratives
Verbs
7.Doing, being and auxiliary verbs
8.Analysing verbs and verbs to craft characters
9.Verbs to describe senses
10.Personification using human verbs
11.Academic verbs
12.Verb use in anaphora
Adjectives
13.Punctuating adjectives participles
14.Positioning adjectives, selecting adjectives for emphasis
15.Adjectival phrases and their effects, listing adjectival phrases to emote
16.Adjectives to describe emotions, using human emotions to create personification.
Adverbs
17.Adverbs of time, degree, manner and place, punctuating adverbs
18.Conjunctive adverbs and adverbials, linking arguments and ideas with them
19.Using adverbs to create modality
Year 8
Main Clauses
1.Punctuating main clauses
2.Effect of simple sentences, simple sentences as narrative hooks, creating suspense with simple sentences
3.Impact of repetition, juxtaposition, using simple sentences for emphasis
Imperatives
4.Effects of imperatives
5.Crafting imperatives, first and third person imperatives, tone created by imperatives
6.Effect of imperatives, using imperatives to create character
Passive Voice
7.Understanding and using passive voice
8.Understanding effect of passive voice in headlines
9.Identifying passive vice in narrative and the effect, passive vice to create suspense
Compound sentences
10.Understanding compound sentences, using coordinating conjunctions
11.Effect of coordinating conjunctions, creating character voice
12.Creating juxtaposition in compound sentences
Subordinating conjunctions
13.Subordinate conjunction and clauses, writing and punctuating complex sentences.
14.Effect of listed subordinate clauses, listed subordinate clauses to create anaphora, listed subordinate clauses to develop an argument
Participles
15.Identifying participle phrases, writing and punctuating participle phrases
16.Effect of participle phrases, using participle phrases to create action sequences, identifying present participle phrases
17.Using participles to develop arguments, using participles to develop arguments and interpretations
Prepositions
18.Understanding and punctuating prepositional phrases
19.Prepositional time phrases, prepositional time phrases to create character
20.Organising descriptions through prepositional phrases
Year 9
Relative Clauses
1.Understanding and punctuating relative clauses
2.Effect of relative clauses, relative clauses to emote
Fragments
3.Identifying and punctuating fragments
4.Effect of fragments and using them
Semicolons
5.Using semicolons
6.Punctuating lists with semicolons, understanding the effects of listing with semicolons, using semicolons in lists to develop arguments
Colons
7.Understanding and punctuating with colons
8.Using a colon to introduce evidence and quotations
9.Impact of embellishing using colons
Dashes
10.Using dashes in place of colons, using dashes in place of full stops and semicolons, using dashes to replace commas and parenthesis, using dashes when no punctuation is required
11.Using dashes and pairs of dashes to emphasise
12.Punctuating asides. Considering the effects of how asides are punctuated, creating a journalistic tone
Direct Speech
13.Organising and punctuating direct speech
14.Identifying omission and crafting speech with omission
15.Understanding contractions and effect of contractions, crafting speech with contractions
Punctuation rules
16.Punctuating extended sentences and avoiding comma splices
17.Understanding punctuation and grammar devices, effect of discursive devices
18.Understanding narrative devices, effect of narrative devices
19.Understanding descriptive devices and using them in writing
20.Consolidating discursive devices
