Writing - Year 6

Here are some resources to help support your child's writing during their time in Year 6.

Here you'll find all of the spelling rules and patterns that are taught throughout the year. Each week your child will receive spellings based upon each focus.

All the grammar and punctuation terminology your child needs to know can be found here. Click the link to download a glossary with examples.

Year 6 Writing

This document shows all of the words on the Year 6 word list. Try to support you child in learning how to spell them and also how to use them in their writing.

What should a great piece of writing look like in Year 6? Click on the picture below to download an example of how the different grammar and punctuation techniques can be used for maximum effect. 

Your child's teacher will be looking for the following features from a Year 6 writer.

They will be expecting skills taught in previous year groups to be secure. Sentences should be grammatically correct. Capital letters and full stops should always be correctly used and children should use a range of different vocabulary and sentence starters. Apostrophes should be present in contractions and children should use a range of conjunctions.

Your child will learn the following skills:

• write a range of texts such as fiction narratives, newspaper articles, non-chronological reports, information texts, letters and persuasive writing;
• ensure that all text types (as mentioned above) have the correct tone, formality and features to match the audience and purpose;
• in narrative writing, characters, settings and atmosphere are described with details (such as adjectives, adverbs, similes, metaphors or expanded noun phrases);
• dialogue is mixed into narratives to convey character and advance the story;
• cohesion is achieved through a range of adverbials, synonyms and pronouns;
• use modal verbs and passive voice;
• different sentences structures (simple sentences, subordinate clauses, starting with conjunctions or adverbials etc.);
• parenthesis (using brackets, commas and dashes);
• use of the dash;
• use of the colon;
• use of the semi-colon;
• relative clauses and relative pronouns;
• use of hyphenated words to avoid ambiguity;
• correctly punctuated speech;
• handwriting is joined correctly and is legible;
• most spellings are correct, with a dictionary used to support unknown words;
• spell most words on the Year 6 word list and use them in their writing.