Non-negotiables

Year 5 Non-negotiables for writing

 

Capital letters and full stops (remember for names and proper nouns)

A range of conjunctions to join sentences

Descriptive vocabulary - adjectives, noun phrases, similes, metaphors

Hollybush handwriting

Adverbials and fronted adverbials followed by a comma

Prepositions

All speech rules used correctly

Relative clauses

Use of paragraphs with linking sentence starters

Commas for lists and clauses

Use of statutory spellings

Brackets, commas or hyphens for parenthesis