Year 6 English Curriculum
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Reading Comprehension skills Short stories and extracts Writing Story writing – settings, openings and characterisation Descriptive writing Discursive writing Poetry Skills Types of sentence, subordinate clauses, connectives Complex and compound sentences Revision of punctuation - capital letters/full stops, commas, question/exclamation marks, speech marks Similes, metaphors Homophones Synonyms for ‘said’, ‘ran’ etc Paragraphing Revision of modal verbs – conditional, active & passive tenses Spellings – NLS Y6 |
Reading Comprehension skills School Production – Play script Narrative poetry – ‘The Ancient Mariner’ Writing Descriptive writing Narrative poems Personal responses to the narrative poem Skills Poetry analysis and writing – structure, effect, theme, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, similes and metaphors Figurative language Imagery Performance Spellings – NLS Y6 |
Reading Comprehension skills (A) ‘Private Peaceful’ – Michael Morpurgo (B) ‘ There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ – Louis Sachar First World War Poetry Writing Character profiles and analysis Book review Persuasive writing Comparative analysis Newspaper recount Poetry study Skills Revision of punctuation Parts of speech Imagery – using similes and metaphors Skimming and scanning Complex sentences Spellings – NLS Y6 |