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Everything your child learns in Year 6 English.

This is the real curriculum data behind the Learn tab — not a marketing summary. 14 of 14 topics below are live online: click any of them to open the lesson.

📖 Reading

Full KS2 analysis: structure, language, authorial intent and viewpoint together.

  • Retrieving and inferring meaning
    Skills: Retrieving information, Making an inference, Using evidence to support a point, Understanding vocabulary in context, Summarising a text
  • Analysing a text
    Skills: Identifying a theme, Tracking character development, Analysing structural choices, Analysing language choices, Identifying authorial intent, Identifying a writer's viewpoint
  • Comparing and evaluating
    Skills: Comparing texts, Distinguishing fact from opinion
  • Text types
    Skills: Reading non-fiction, Reading poetry

✍️ Writing

The full range of KS2 forms, with a genuine editing and proofreading process.

  • Writing for a purpose
    Skills: Writing a narrative, Writing a description, Writing a report, Writing an explanation, Writing a speech, Writing a diary entry
  • Argument and persuasion
    Skills: Constructing an argument, Writing to persuade, Writing a balanced argument
  • Register and process
    Skills: Writing a formal letter, Writing an informal letter, Editing your own writing, Proofreading for errors

🔤 Grammar

Consolidating every KS2 grammar structure alongside voice and register.

  • Grammar review and extension
    Skills: Reviewing all major word classes, Using modal verbs, Using a relative clause, Using a subordinate clause
  • Voice, register and cohesion
    Skills: Using active and passive voice, Matching formal or informal register to purpose, Using Standard English, Using cohesive devices, Varying sentence structure for effect

✒️ Punctuation

The complete KS2 punctuation range.

📚 Vocabulary

Word origins and precise, technical and figurative vocabulary.

  • Word origins
    Skills: Using word roots, Understanding morphology, Understanding etymology
  • Precision vocabulary
    Skills: Choosing precise synonyms, Choosing precise antonyms, Distinguishing shades of meaning, Using formal vocabulary, Using technical vocabulary
  • Figurative language
    Skills: Using figurative language, Understanding idioms

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