Grammar Essentials for age 5 - 6

Year	Grammatical awareness	Punctuation
R	Nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositional words Teach: ·        use capital letters for start of their own names ·        Write captions and labels for pictures ·        Write sentences to match pictures or sequences of pictures using thinking-writing skills ·        Use correct sequence of movements to write letters	Punctuation to master: Capital letter for names
1	Nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositional words Nouns-  special names begin with capital letters Describing words (make sentences more interesting) More (-er) most (-est) Verbs regular  past tense (-ed) Did/ done (has) Adverb (-ly) Plurals (s, es) Articles a and an Teach: form simple sentences with one verb	Capital letter for names Capital letter for start of  a sentence Capital letter for personal pronoun I Capital letter for personal titles (Mr, Mrs) Use full stop for ending sentences Use question marks for questions (what, where, when, why, how?) Punctuation to master: . ?