Moorgate Primary School

English: INTENT Grammar, Punctuation and Writing Genres Criteria for Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres

This is a suggested overview for each genre, giving a list of grammar and punctuation. It is not a definitive list. It will depend on the age group as to what you will include or exclude. For each genre you will work on vocabulary such as prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, etc.

Where possible, different sentence structures should be taught. This will be developed through the year and throughout the Key Stage.

Narrative Genres Narrative text 1. Adventure and mystery stories – past tense First or third person 2. Myths and legends – past tense Inverted commas 3. Stories with historical settings – past tense Personification 4. Stories set in imaginary worlds – past or future tense Similes 5. Stories with issues and dilemmas – past tense Metaphors 6. Flashback – past and present tense Onomatopoeia 7. Traditional fairy story – past tense Noun phrases 8. Ghost story – past tense Different sentence openers (prepositions, adverbs, connectives, “- ing” words, adverbs, “-ed” words, similes) Synonyms Antonyms Specific nouns (proper) Semicolons to separate two sentences Colons to separate two sentences of equal weighting Informal and formal language Lists of three – adjectives and actions Indefinite pronouns Emotive language

Non-Fiction Genres Explanation text Recount text Persuasive text Report text Play scripts Poetry text Discussion text

Present tense (This includes genres Present tense Formal language Exclamation sentences Personification Present tense Modal verbs such as Past tense First/third person with exclamation marks Similes Statements Time connectives newspaper/journalistic Future tense Past/present tense Colons Metaphors Rhetorical questions Causal connectives writing, biography, Modal verbs Causal connectives Stage directions Abstract nouns Causal connectives Formal language autobiography and diary) Imperative verbs Time connectives Informal speech Sentence openers Additional connectives Technical vocabulary Causal connectives Addition-of-ideas Brackets (prepositional, adverbs, Results connectives Third person Past tense Exemplification connectives Hyphens connectives,”-ing” words, Order-of-sequence Rhetorical questions Time connectives connectives Exemplification Short sentences “-ed” words, similes) connectives Proper nouns Formal language Summarising connectives connectives Adjectives Exemplification Past tense Third/first person Rhetorical questions Comparing-and- Repetition connectives Active and passive (pronouns) Colons Comparative and contrasting connectives Antonyms Comparing-and- Relative clauses Proper nouns superlative adjectives Future tense (when Synonyms contrasting connectives Colons Formal language Exaggerated language offering suggestions) Alliteration Conditionals Semicolons Adverbial phrases Repetition Similes Onomatopoeia Imperative verbs Parenthesis using Prepositional phrases Groups of three Metaphors Prepositions Third person hyphens, commas and Similes First/second/third person Technical language Powerful verbs Formal language brackets Indefinite pronouns Parenthesis using Specific nouns Generalisation/quantifiers hyphens, commas and Collective nouns Emotive language brackets Expanded noun phrases Giving statistics Making opinion appear as fact Formal language Statements Conditionals Non-chronological Newspaper Biography Diary Letters Instructions Autobiography report Newspaper headlines Third person Informal language (What is featured in this Time connectives First person Third person Subheadings Past tense First person genre depends on the Imperative verbs Past tense Formal language Reported speech Proper nouns Time connectives genre being taught. For Present tense Proper nouns Passive and active Dashes/hyphens Abstract nouns Past tense example, if it is to Second person Abstract nouns sentences Present tense Informal language Present tense persuade then you would Technical language Informal language Proper nouns Past tense Different types of Emotive language follow the success criteria Adverbs to start sentences Different types of Specific nouns Quotation using inverted sentence openers Proper nouns for a persuasion text) Colons sentence openers Move from general to commas and colons Time connectives Specific nouns Bullet points Time connectives specific First/third person Fronted adverbial phrases Fronted adverbial phrases First person Formal language Fronted adverbial phrases Commas in a list Technical language Relative clauses Relative clauses Formal language Simple sentences Relative clauses Colons Proper nouns Personification Personification Informal language Commas to separate lists Personification Bullet points Specific nouns Metaphors Metaphors Layout Modal verbs Metaphors Hyphens Formal language Alliteration Alliteration Proper nouns Alliteration Present tense Time connectives Similes Similes Parenthesis using Similes Past tense Emotive language Abstract nouns hyphens, commas and Emotive language Semicolons Quotation Informal language brackets Relative clauses Different types of Starting a sentence with sentence openers the continuous/progressive tense (“-ing”) Rhetorical questions Parenthesis using hyphens, commas and brackets