English curriculum
77 quality-checked English topics, mapped to the UK National Curriculum from Year 1 to Year 11. Here is everything your child can learn.
Year 1
KS1- Phonics: Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences
- Reading Comprehension: Stories and Poetry
- Spelling: Phoneme Segmentation
- Writing Composition: Sentences and Narratives
- Grammar: Capitals, Full Stops and Question Marks
Year 2
KS1- Phonics: Common Phonemes and Digraphs
- Spelling: Common Exception Words
- Grammar: Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs
- Grammar: Sentences and Punctuation
- Reading: Comprehension and Sequencing
Year 3
KS2- Grammar: Conjunctions and Clauses
- Grammar: Verb Tenses
- Grammar: Fronted Adverbials
- Grammar: Apostrophes
- Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes
- Spelling: Common Exceptions and Homophones
- Reading: Comprehension and Inference
- Reading: Vocabulary in Context
Year 4
KS2- Reading: Comparisons Within and Across Texts
- Reading: Language, Structure and Presentation
- Spelling: Further Prefixes and Suffixes
- Spelling: Possessive Apostrophes
- Writing Composition: Settings, Characters and Plot
- Grammar: Noun Phrases and Determiners
- Grammar: Standard and Non-Standard English
- Grammar: Pronoun Choice for Cohesion
Year 5
KS2- Reading: Figurative Language and Authorial Choices
- Reading: Summarising and Retrieving Information
- Spelling: Silent Letters and Etymology
- Spelling: Homophones and Commonly Confused Words
- Writing Composition: Cohesion Within and Across Paragraphs
- Grammar: Relative Clauses
- Grammar: Modal Verbs and Adverbs for Possibility
- Grammar: Parenthesis — Brackets, Dashes, Commas
Year 6
KS2- Grammar: Subjunctive and Passive Voice
- Punctuation: Colons, Semi-colons and Dashes
- Vocabulary: Synonyms, Antonyms and Etymology
- Reading: Inference and Authorial Intent
- Writing: Narrative Techniques and Structure
Year 7
KS3- Grammar: Sentence Types and Structures
- Grammar: Punctuation for Effect
- Grammar: Standard and Non-Standard English
- Vocabulary: Word Families and Etymology
- Reading: Inference and Textual Evidence
- Reading: Language and Structure Analysis
- Writing: Persuasive Techniques
- Literature: Character and Motivation
Year 8
KS3- Reading: Shakespeare — Play Study
- Reading: 19th-Century Fiction
- Reading: Language and Structural Analysis
- Writing: Formal Expository Essays
- Writing: Narrative and Imaginative Writing
- Writing: Persuasive Arguments
- Grammar: Register — Formal vs Informal
- Grammar: Standard English and Language Variation
Year 9
KS3- Reading: Seminal World Literature
- Reading: 19th-Century Poetry
- Reading: Comparing Texts and Authors
- Writing: Planning, Drafting and Editing
- Writing: Formal Essays and Reports
- Writing: Narrative Craft
- Spoken English: Presentations and Debates
- Grammar: Complex Sentence Structures
Year 10
KS4- Analysing Language and Structure
- Comparing Texts
- Descriptive and Narrative Writing
- Persuasive and Argumentative Writing
- A Christmas Carol
- Jekyll and Hyde
- AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
- Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
Year 11
KS4- Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet
- An Inspector Calls
- Unseen Poetry
- Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
- Paper 2: Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives
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