In Year 2-6, we begin our Writing journey every year by following Grammarsaurus: The Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar. During this time, learning is focused on the mastery of sentence structure and teaching essential grammar and punctuation skills to enable children to become successful writers.  Within these lessons, teachers aim to secure children's understanding of what a sentence is and needs, focusing on their knowledge of nouns and verbs, and their understanding of how to construct single and multi-clause sentences. 

Children recognise verbs and subjects in independent clauses and build single clause sentences, punctuating them correctly. Where appropriate, children also look at how conjunctions are used to join clauses. 

Year 1 follow Grammarsaurus: The Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar in Autumn 2, after spending Autumn 1 focusing on transcription skills and phonics. 

Have a look at our English Work section to see our Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar and transcription work in more detail. 

How We Teach Writing: 

When we are studying a quality text, first, we 'Read it'. Then, we complete a 'Rip it' lesson. Here we look at key structural and linguistic features of the text to become familiar with the genre we are writing. 

After a 'Rip it' lesson, we then have 'Rehearse it' lessons. These are skills lessons, which focus on the appropriate skills needed in order to be successful writers of the genre we are writing. Here we build our vocabulary and practice relevant sentence structures. Our 'Rehearse it' lessons lead up to us completing  'Write it' sessions, where we independently apply the skills learnt. Before and after these sessions, we may have 'Revise it' lessons, which allow us to focus on any misconceptions we may have as well as furthering our learning of key skills. Here children are given the opportunity to improve their writing, through revision, improvements, re-reading, reflection and self and/or peer feedback.