develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

Statutory requirement

Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

• learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly - see English appendix 2, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular)
• learn how to use:
• sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command
• expanded noun phrases to describe and specifyNon-statutory example: for example, the blue butterfly
• the present and past tenses correctly and consistently, including the progressive form
• subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but)
• the grammar for year 2 in English appendix 2
• some features of written Standard English

Source: Department for Education, English programmes of study. See also the relevant statutory appendix. Crown copyright information reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0.