Orthography And Grammar

Question 1

What is punctuation and why is it important?

Answer 1

Punctuation marks boundaries between units of language: words, phrases, clauses and sentences. These boundaries are marked by spaces, capital letters, full stops and commas. Certain sentence moods specifically exclamative and interrogative moods, are indicated by exclamation marks and question marks. Punctuation also makes meaning clear to a reader.

Question 2

Name some features of orthography/grammar that indicate prosody

Answer 2

Exclamation marks
Question marks
Ellipsis
Speech marks
Capitalisation e.g ‘WHAT?’
Hyphen
Italics
Underlining
Emojis

Question 3

Give 3 examples of an adverbial phrase:

Answer 3

‘In the playground’
‘By the stairs’
‘Behind the tree’

Question 4

Name 2 types of conjunction and give an example of each:

Answer 4

1. Coordinating ( and )
2. Subordinating ( when )

Question 5

What is orthography?

Answer 5

Orthography is the conventions of writing a language e.g spelling, punctuation and capitalisation.

Question 6

Give an example of a feature of the English orthographical system:

Answer 6

Capitalising all pronouns

Question 7

What are the four sentence categories?

Answer 7

1. Complex
2. Compound
3. Simple
4. Minor

Question 8

What do commas do in writing? Write the symbol like how you would in an exam.

Answer 8

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They indicate pauses in speech
They allow the formation of longer, more complex phrases/sentences/ideas

Question 9

What do semi-colons do in writing? Write the symbol like how you would in an exam.

Answer 9

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They express the relationship between two things e.g ‘The dog barked at the door; he never did like intruders.’

Question 10

What do full stops do in writing? Write the symbol like how you would in an exam.

Answer 10

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Signals the end of a sentence - means that the sentence is complete/whole
Normally goes along with a finite verb - ‘My dad’s new car is red.’ (The finite verb being ‘is’)

Question 11

What are the key ideas from the structure of the National Curriculum?

Answer 11

Phonics method of teaching
Targets for certain age groups

Question 12

How do teachers act as a MKO (More Knowledgeable Other) when it comes to children’s writing?

Answer 12

• Worksheets
• Sentence starters
• Key words on the board
• Stickers for doing well (rewards/praise).

Question 13

Which conjunction typically goes with which type of sentence? Subordinating and Coordinating?

Answer 13

Complex- subordinating
Compound- coordinating

Question 14

What is a key term to remember for the exam when describing sentences consisting of more than one clause?

Answer 14

Multiclausal sentences