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English
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Free English study notes for Key Stage 1 (KS1) students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Reading comprehension skills
Vocabulary in context (1a)
Characters, events, titles and information (1b)
Sequence of events (1c)
Making inferences (1d)
Predicting what might happen (1e)
Year 1
Handwriting
Year 2
Handwriting
Reading text types
Stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
Poems and rhymes
Non-fiction and information texts
Contemporary and classic stories
Recurring literary language
Word reading and phonics
GPCs and the 40+ phonemes
Blending and alternative sounds for graphemes
Reading words of two or more syllables
Reading common exception words
Reading suffixed words and contractions
Spelling: sounds and letter patterns
ff, ll, ss, zz, ck, nk, -tch and final /v/
Vowel digraphs and trigraphs
ph, wh and using k for the /k/ sound
-ge, -dge, soft c, kn-, gn- and wr-
Endings -le, -el, -al and -il
Compound words and the days of the week
Spelling: prefixes, suffixes and word building
Adding -s and -es
Adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est with no root change
Adding suffixes to words ending in -y
Adding suffixes to words ending in -e and to short words
Suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly
The prefix un- and words ending in -tion
Spelling: tricky words and homophones
Common exception words: Year 1
Common exception words: Year 2
Homophones and near-homophones
Less common vowel spellings after w and qu
Grammar in use
Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Statements, questions, commands and exclamations
Co-ordination with or, and, but
Subordination with when, if, that, because
Expanded noun phrases
Verb tenses, the progressive form and consistency
Punctuation
Capital letters
Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
Commas in lists
Apostrophes for contractions
Apostrophes for singular possession
Writing composition
Writing sentences and sequencing short narratives
Narratives about real and fictional experiences
Writing about real events
Writing poetry
Writing for different purposes
Planning, evaluating and proof-reading
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