- Introduction
- Spoken English and Standard English
- Standard English
- Historical variation
- Regional variation
- Individual variation – register
- The nature of learning
- The acquisition of language
- Theories about language acquisition
- How children learn language
- Representing sound in writing
- The sounds of English
- The symbols of English
- Visual patterns in English
- Morphemic and etymological patterns in English
- Words, vocabulary and morphology
- The origins of English vocabulary
- The structure of English words
- The grammar of the sentence in Standard English
- What is a sentence?
- What kind of sentences are there?
- The component parts of a sentence
- The components of sentences
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Determiners
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions
- Handwriting
- The decline of handwriting
- What does research tell us about the importance of handwriting?
- Some key lessons from research into handwriting, its place and function
- Punctuation
- Cohesion: grammar at the level of the text
- The differences between spoken and written language
- What makes a text a text?
- What is cohesion?
- Cohesive ties
- Why is understanding cohesion important?
- Coherence
- The qualities of stories
- Why are stories important?
- What are stories?
- Story genres
- Story structures
- Evaluating and making judgements about stories
- Criteria for evaluating stories
- The qualities of poetry
- Why are poems important?
- What is poetry?
- Poetic devices
- Rhythm
- Poetry forms
- Evaluating and making judgements about poems
- The qualities of drama
- Why is drama important?
- Analysing drama texts
- Shakespearean drama at Key Stage 2
- Evaluating drama texts
- Looking at information books
- Looking critically at information books
- Electronic texts
- The characteristics of electronic texts
- Appendix: Irregular verbs in English
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