Year 6 Expectations for Writing

Year 6 Expectations for Grammar

• Identify the audience for and purpose of writing
• Note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research
• Enhance meaning through selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary
• Describe settings, characters and atmosphere
• Précis longer passages
• Integrate dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• Use organisational and presentational devices to structure text
• Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance
• effects and clarify meaning
• Use consistent and correct tense
• Distinguish between the language of speech and writing
• Choose the appropriate register
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
• Perform own compositions using appropriate intonation, volume and
• movement

• Recognise vocabulary and structures for formal speech and writing,
• including subjunctive forms
• Use passive verbs
• Use the perfect form of verbs
• Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
• Link ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices (e.g. repetition, adverbials, ellipsis)
• Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
• Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between
• independent clauses
• Use a colon to introduce a list and use of semi-colons within lists
• Punctuate bullet points consistently
• Link ideas across paragraphs using a wide range of cohesive devices (Y5)
• Use modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility (Y5)
• Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis (Y5)
• Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that
• or an omitted relative pronoun (Y5)