Book 1

How is book 1 organised?

• There are three chapters – one for each term.
• Each chapter continues the themed story.
• Each chapter contains ten individual lessons.

What about the content?

• Each year group is based on a theme that captures children’s interest.
• There are clear links between grammar/punctuation and real texts.
• Pages can be printed in black and white or colour.
• Every National Curriculum objective for each year group is covered.

What about differentiation?

• Each story page is followed by differentiated activity sheets with the same objective.
• The differentiated activities are similar so any teaching points can be shared easily with the whole class.

Book 2

Activity sheets

• Activity sheets can be used at any time.
• Ideal for consolidation in class or at home.
• Activities reinforce National Curriculum objectives.

End-of-term assessments

• Designed to be administered at the end of each term.
• Assess objectives taught in that term.
• Inform assessment for learning.

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Term 1)

1. Tommy’s Garden – Finger spaces between words

2. Tommy Meets the Mouse – Using ‘and’

3. Tommy and the Caterpillar – Capital letters and full stops

4. The Funny Noise – Question marks

Spring Term (Term 2)

5. Tommy and the Frog – Exclamation marks

6. Tommy Meets Peewee – Capital letters for names and days of the week

7. Tommy and the Slimy Trail – The personal pronoun ‘I’

8. Tommy’s Big Adventure – Recognising and using verbs

Summer Term (Term 3)

9. The Caterpillar’s Sleeping Bag – Using the prefix ‘un’

10. Tommy’s Counting Capers – Regular plural nouns

11. Yukky Grub! – Regular past tense verbs

12. Tommy and the Owl – Combining words to make sentences / Sequencing sentences to make a narrative

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can leave spaces between words.

I can join words and clauses using ‘and’.

I can use full stops and capital letters.

I can use question marks.

I can use exclamation marks.

I can use capital letters for names and the days of the week.

I can use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’.

I can recognise and use verbs.

I can change words using the prefix ‘un’.

I can form regular plural nouns.

I can use the past tense of regular verbs.

I can combine words to make sentences.

I can sequence sentences to form short narratives.

I can use common irregular past tense verbs.

I can use adjectives.

I can use the word ‘but’.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y1 Autumn Test

Y1 Spring Test

Y1 Summer Test

Y1 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y1 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y1 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y1 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Term 1)

The Hunt (1)

1. Meet the Firestones – Full stops and capital letters

2. Meet the Moonlights – Capital letters for people and places

3. Hungry Axel – Question marks

4. Axel Goes Hunting – Exclamation marks

5. Dusk Saves the Day – Commands

The Cave (2)

1. Axel Wants Feeding – Regular plural nouns

2. Fruit Picking – Commas in lists

3. Heavy Baskets – Apostrophes for contraction

4. It Starts to Rain – Prefix ‘un’

5. Dusk to the Rescue – Sentence forms

Spring Term (Term 2)

The Artist (3)

1. Axel Gets Bored – Regular past tense verbs

2. Art Work – Past tense (spelling changes)

3. Visitors – Suffix ‘ful’

4. Axel the Artist – Adjectives (expanded noun phrases)

5. Dad’s Invention – Apostrophes for possession

The Pet (4)

1. Shadow Puppets – Progressive tense

2. Excuses – Auxiliary verbs (helping verbs)

3. Walkies – Irregular past tense verbs

4. The Egg – Adverbs (suffix ‘ly’)

5. Hatched! – Using ‘and’ and ‘but’

Summer Term (Term 3)

The Fishing Trip (5)

1. The Firestone – Using ‘because’

2. Going Fishing – Suffix ‘less’

3. The Log Canoe – Using ‘when’, ‘if’ and ‘that’

4. Axel’s Idea – Using ‘or’

5. Making Rafts – Suffixes ‘er’ and ‘best’ added to adjectives

Axel’s Big Invention (6)

1. No More Room – Irregular plural nouns

2. Bigger Cave Needed – Suffix ‘less’

3. The Rock Pile – Word classes (parts of speech)

4. Axel’s Plan – Compound words

5. Dusk to the Rescue (Again!) – Irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English)

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can use full stops and capital letters.

I can use capital letters for names of people and places.

I can use question marks with questions.

I can use exclamation marks.

I can write commands.

I can write regular plural nouns.

I can use commas in lists.

I can use an apostrophe for contraction.

I can use the prefix ‘un’.

I can recognise statements, questions, exclamations and commands.

I can use regular past tense verbs.

I can make changes to create past tense verbs.

I can use the present, past and future tenses.

I can use the suffix ‘ful’.

I can use the suffix ‘ness’.

I can identify and use adjectives.

I can use the apostrophe for possession.

I can use the progressive tense.

I can use helping verbs to form the progressive tense.

I can use irregular past tense verbs.

I can use the suffix ‘ly’ to make adverbs.

I can use the words ‘and’ and ‘but’ to extend sentences.

I can use the word ‘because’.

I can use the suffix ‘less’.

I can use the words ‘when’, ‘if’ and ‘that’.

I can use the word ‘or’.

I can use the suffixes ‘er’ and ‘est’ when added to adjectives.

I can use irregular plural nouns.

I can make verbs into nouns by adding the suffix ‘er’.

I can name different word classes (parts of speech).

I can use compound words.

I can use irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English).

I can use ordinals and sequence words.

I can use similar and opposite words.

I can begin to use speech marks.

I can sequence sentences to make a story.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y2 Autumn Test

Y2 Spring Test

Y2 Summer Test

Y2 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y2 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y2 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y2 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Chapter 1)

1. Meet the Crew – Full stops and capital letters

2. All Aboard! – Conjunctions

3. The Greedy Minnow – Question marks

4. The Captain’s Cabin – Adjectives

5. Jackie Starling’s Early Days – Word’s to replace nouns (pronouns)

6. The Map – Conjunctions to express time

7. Captain’s Log – Past tense

8. After the Storm – Prepositions

9. Mend the Mainsail – Speech marks

10. The Distant Ship – Verbs

Spring Term (Chapter 2)

1. The Black Pirates – Adjectives to compare

2. The Island – Plurals

3. The Search Begins – Adverbs of manner

4. Monkey Mayhem – Alternative verbs

5. The Temple – Prepositions

6. Nabbed! – Parts of a sentence

7. Captured! – Irregular past tense

8. Rescued! – Conjunctions

9. The Chase – Apostrophe for contraction

10. Trapped! – Direct speech

Summer Term (Chapter 3)

1. Left to Rot – Full stops, question marks, exclamation marks

2. The Homing Parrot – Commas in lists

3. Rescue – Adverbs to begin a sentence

4. Down but Not Defeated – Prefixes

5. Attack of the Apes – Apostrophe for possession

6. Lost! – Words to show possession

7. Holes! – Present perfect tense

8. The Tribesmen Return – Subordinate clauses

9. The Key – Alternatives for ‘said’

10.The Banana – Irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English)

11. The End – (A final page to complete the story)

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can use capital letters for proper nouns.

I can use full stops and capital letters.

I can use capital letters for new lines in poetry.

I can use the correct article before a word.

I can use conjunctions to extend sentences.

I can punctuate sentences correctly with question marks.

I can use adjectives.

I can use words to replace nouns (pronouns).

I can use words to express time.

I can use the past tense of regular verbs.

I can use prepositions.

I can understand the difference between Standard English and Non-Standard English.

I can use speech marks.

I can recognise verbs.

I can use adjectives to compare.

I can use regular plural nouns.

I can use irregular plural nouns.

I can use collective nouns.

I can use adverbs of manner.

I can use adverbs of time and place.

I can use alternative verbs to improve sentences.

I can use a range of prepositions.

I can match the parts of a sentence.

I can identify and use the irregular past tense.

I can use a range of conjunctions.

I can use an apostrophe for contraction.

I can write direct speech with speech marks.

I can punctuate correctly using full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

I can use commas in lists.

I can use fronted adverbials.

I can use prefixes to change the meaning of words.

I can generate word families based on common words.

I can use the apostrophe for possession.

I can use words to show possession (possessive pronouns).

I can use the present perfect.

I can use subordinate clauses.

I can use alternatives for ‘said’.

I can use irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English).

I can group related material into paragraphs.

I can use headings and subheadings to aid presentation.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y3 Autumn Test

Y3 Spring Test

Y3 Summer Test

Y3 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y3 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y3 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y3 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Chapter 1)

1. The Squire – Capital letters, full stops and commas

2. The Knight – Conjunctions

3. Preparing for the Joust – Full stops, question marks, exclamation marks

4. The Tournament – Prepositions

5. Armour and Weapons – Words to express time

6. Angelica’s Favour – Pronouns

7. The Joust – Present and past tense

8. Gone! – Auxiliary verbs

9. Ransom – Direct speech

10. Pip to the Rescue – Adverbs

Spring Term (Chapter 2)

1. The Quest – Alternative verbs

2. The Pearl Necklace – Sentence structure

3. The Wolf – Paired adjectives

4. The Black Knight – Clauses within sentences

5. The Tower – Non-countable nouns

6. Two’s a Team – Linking ideas in sentences

7. The Journey – Prepositions

8. The Cell – Statements into questions

9. The Solitary Tree – Fronted adverbials

10. The Sword – Adverbs (not ending in ‘ly’)

Summer Term (Chapter 3)

1. The Rescue – Word classes (parts of speech)

2. The Dragon – Alternative adjectives

3. The Warlock – Present perfect and past perfect

4. The Battle – Different sentence structures

5. Imprisoned – Prefixes

6. No Escape! – Apostrophe for contraction

7. Monster Mail – Regular and irregular plurals

8. Sir Ansell Joins the Search – Determiners

9. The Return of the Dragon – Apostrophe for possession

10. Sir Ansell Saves the Day! – Regular and irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English)

11. The End – (Final two pages to complete the story)

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can use capital letters, full stops and commas.

I can use conjunctions to extend sentences.

I can use full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

I can use prepositions.

I can use words to express time.

I can use pronouns.

I can identify the present and past tense of verbs.

I can use the present progressive and the past progressive tense.

I can make the auxiliary verb and the main verb agree.

I can use Standard English when writing verbs.

I can use speech marks in direct speech.

I can change direct speech to reported speech.

I can identify and use adverbs.

I can identify and use alternative verbs.

I can construct sentences in different ways.

I can identify and use paired adjectives.

I can identify a clause within a sentence.

I can use the relative pronouns ‘who’, ‘that’ and ‘which’.

I can recognise countable and non-countable nouns.

I can identify and use noun phrases.

I can use a range of linking words or phrases.

I can use a range of prepositions.

I can change statements into questions.

I can use fronted adverbials.

I can use fronted adverbial phrases.

I can identify and use adverbs that do not end in ‘ly’.

I can identify different word classes.

I can identify and use alternative words.

I can identify and use the present perfect and the past perfect tense.

I can tell the difference between a coordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction.

I can use a range of prefixes.

I can use the apostrophe for contractions.

I can use regular and irregular plurals.

I can identify the different parts of a sentence.

I can use the apostrophe for possession.

I can use the apostrophe correctly.

I can use regular and irregular adjectives to compare (Standard English).

I can use paragraphs to organise ideas.

I can generate word families based on root words.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y4 Autumn Test

Y4 Spring Test

Y4 Summer Test

Y4 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y4 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y4 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y4 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Part 1)

1. Chapter One – Direct speech

2. Chapter Two – Commas in lists

3. Chapter Three – Colons

4. Chapter Four – Model verbs of possibility

5. Chapter Five – Model adverbs

6. Chapter Six – Coordinating conjunctions

7. Chapter Seven – Subordinating conjunctions

8. Chapter Eight – Relative clauses

9. Chapter Nine – Passive voice

10. Chapter Ten – Semi-colons

Spring Term (Part 2)

1. Chapter One – Perfect tense

2. Chapter Two – Prepositions of time

3. Chapter Three – Apostrophes

4. Chapter Four – Imperative verbs (commands)

5. Chapter Five – Hyphens (in compound words)

6. Chapter Six – Fronted adverbials

7. Chapter Seven – Cohesive devices

8. Chapter Eight – First person/third person (pronouns)

9. Chapter Nine – Subjunctive form

10. Chapter Ten – Bullet points

Summer Term (Part 3)

1. Chapter One – Brackets

2. Chapter Two – Reported speech

3. Chapter Three – Adverbs

4. Chapter Four – Suffixes

5. Chapter Five – Determiners

6. Chapter Six – Prefixes

7. Chapter Seven – Commas for parenthesis

8. Chapter Eight – Dashes

9. Chapter Nine – Synonyms

10. Chapter Ten – Expanded noun phrases

11. Chapter Eleven – (Final pages to complete the story)

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can use capital letters for titles.

I can correctly punctuate addresses.

I can punctuate using speech marks.

I can use commas to separate items in a list.

I can use a colon to introduce a list or add further detail.

I can use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.

I can use modal verbs to indicate degrees of politeness.

I can identify and use modal adverbs.

I can use coordinating conjunctions.

I can identify and use subordinating conjunctions.

I can write sentences using relative clauses.

I can use the passive voice.

I can use the semi-colon to break up clauses in a sentence.

I can use the perfect tense to mark relationships of time and cause.

I can use prepositions of time.

I can use apostrophes correctly.

I can use imperative verbs (commands).

I can use hyphens to form compound words.

I can identify and use fronted adverbials.

I can build cohesion within paragraphs using adverbs and conjunctions.

I can write in the first person and the third person (using pronouns).

I can use the subjunctive form.

I can punctuate with bullet points.

I can use brackets to indicate parenthesis.

I can use reported speech.

I can use adverbs of manner, time, place, degree, frequency and certainty.

I can convert nouns and adjectives to verbs using suffixes.

I can identify determiners.

I can use prefixes to change the meaning of verbs.

I can use commas to indicate parenthesis.

I can use dashes to indicate parenthesis and mark boundaries between clauses.

I can use synonyms to improve my sentences.

I can find antonyms of words.

I can add prefixes and suffixes to make a word an antonym.

I can use expanded noun phrases.

I can identify expanded noun phrases.

I can use formal language for writing letters.

I can use commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity.

I can link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place and number.

I can recognise and name different punctuation marks.

I can identify different word classes (parts of speech).

I can use Standard English.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y5 Autumn Test

Y5 Spring Test

Y5 Summer Test

Y5 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y5 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y5 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y5 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)

BOOK 1

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Teachers’ notes

Autumn Term (Part 1)

1. Chapter One – Noun classification

2. Chapter Two – Conjunctions (identifying types)

3. Chapter Three – Paired adjectives

4. Chapter Four – Commas (before conjunctions)

5. Chapter Five – Model verbs and adverbs

6. Chapter Six – Verbs as sentence starters

7. Chapter Seven – Parentheses (brackets, dashes, commas)

8. Chapter Eight – Semi-colons, colons and dashes (for clauses)

9. Chapter Nine – Direct speech

10. Chapter Ten – Relative clauses

Spring Term (Part 2)

1. Chapter One – Expanded noun phrases

2. Chapter Two – Passive voice

3. Chapter Three – Past perfect tense

4. Chapter Four – Adverbs and adverbial phrases

5. Chapter Five – Modal verbs (of politeness)

6. Chapter Six – Paragraphs

7. Chapter Seven – Implied relative pronouns

8. Chapter Eight – Prefixes (for verbs)

9. Chapter Nine – Prepositions of time

10. Chapter Ten – Standard English

Summer Term (Part 3)

1. Chapter One – Subjunctive form

2. Chapter Two – Reported speech

3. Chapter Three – Commas (to clarify meaning)

4. Chapter Four – Subject and object

5. Chapter Five – Synonyms

6. Chapter Six – Apostrophes (for contraction and possession)

7. Chapter Seven – Adverbs (of certainty, degree and place)

8. Chapter Eight – Prefixes (for adjectives)

9. Chapter Nine – Ellipses (omitting words)

10. Chapter Ten – Adverbs (without ‘ly’ ending)

11. Chapter Eleven – (Final pages to complete the story)

Answers

ANSWERS – Autumn, Spring & Summer Term

BOOK 2

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Teachers’ notes

Activity Sheets

I can use capital letters for titles of books.

I can identify different types of nouns.

I can identify and use different types of conjunctions.

I can use paired adjectives and commas with coordinating adjectives.

I can use commas before conjunctions.

I can use modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility.

I can rewrite sentences using verbs as sentence openers.

I can use brackets, dashes or commas for parentheses.

I can use semi-colons, colons or dashes for clauses.

I can use commas, colons and semi-colons for lists.

I can use direct speech.

I can use relative clauses.

I can use expanded noun phrases.

I can use the passive voice.

I can use the past perfect tense to mark relationships of time.

I can use adverbs and adverbial phrases.

I can use modal verbs to show politeness.

I can use paragraphs to structure my writing.

I can use relative clauses with an implied relative pronoun.

I can use verb prefixes.

I can use prepositions of time.

I can use prepositions of place and time.

I can use Standard English.

I can use question tags for spoken conversation and written dialogue.

I can use the subjunctive form.

I can use formal language for letter writing.

I can recognise vocabulary and structures that are used for formal speech.

I can use reported speech.

I can change reported speech into direct speech.

I can use commas to clarify meaning.

I can identify the subject and object in a sentence.

I can use synonyms to improve my writing.

I can find antonyms of words.

I can find antonyms of words with prefixes.

I can use apostrophes for contractions and possession.

I can identify and use adverbs of certainty and degree.

I can identify and use adverbs of place.

I can add prefixes to adjectives.

I can make nouns and verbs into adjectives using suffixes.

I can use ellipses.

I can use ellipses as a punctuation mark.

I can identify and use adverbs without the ‘ly’ ending.

I can use bullet points to list items.

I can use bullet points to outline the main points of a text.

I can use hyphens to avoid ambiguity.

I can identify different word classes (parts of speech).

I can use the imperative verb for commands and slogans.

I can use phrasal verbs.

I can punctuate sentences correctly.

I can link ideas across paragraphs using a wide range of cohesive devices.

I can use different layout devices to display information.

Activity Sheets – ANSWERS

End-of-Term-Assessments

End-of-Term Test Guidance

Y6 Autumn Test

Y6 Spring Test

Y6 Summer Test

Y6 Autumn Test – ANSWERS

Y6 Spring Test – ANSWERS

Y6 Summer Test – ANSWERS

Pupil Record Sheets – Assessment/Test Analysis

End-of-Term Test Analysis Program

Teachers’ notes

How to save the program to a device or network

Y6 Grammar & Punctuation End-of-Term Test Analysis Program (DEMO version)