Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Common and bottlenose dolphins are frequently spotted around Jersey's coastline! 🐬Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄Jersey has its own parliament called the States Assembly — one of the oldest in the world! 🏛️Common and bottlenose dolphins are frequently spotted around Jersey's coastline! 🐬Jersey is closer to France than to England — just 14 miles from the Normandy coast! 🇫🇷Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world — the sea can go back nearly 1.5km at low tide! 🌊Jersey has its own language called Jèrriais — a form of Norman French still spoken by some islanders! 🗣️Mont Orgueil Castle has been standing for over 800 years — since around 1204! 🏰The Jersey Royal potato has its own Protected Designation of Origin — just like champagne! 🥔The Jersey cow is one of the oldest dairy breeds in the world — dating back over 300 years! 🐄

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Homophones and Commonly Confused Words

Learn to tell apart words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

✓ Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings (e.g. there / their / they're).

✓ Near-homophones sound similar but not identical and are often confused (e.g. accept / except, affect / effect).

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Fronted Adverbials

Learn how to use fronted adverbials to vary your sentence structure and add detail to your writing.

✓ A fronted adverbial is a word, phrase or clause that describes when, where, how or how often — placed at the start of a sentence.

✓ A comma is placed after a fronted adverbial to separate it from the main clause.

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Non-fiction Text Types

Discover the different types of non-fiction text and the features that make each one distinctive.

✓ Non-fiction texts inform, explain, persuade or instruct — unlike fiction, they are about real things.

✓ Different non-fiction text types have distinctive features: reports are factual; instructions are ordered with imperative verbs; persuasion uses emotive language.

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Relative Clauses

Learn to use relative clauses to add extra information about nouns in your writing.

✓ A relative clause gives extra information about a noun and is introduced by a relative pronoun: who, which, that, whose or where.

✓ Relative clauses can be defining (essential to the meaning) or non-defining (extra information set off by commas).

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Apostrophes

Master apostrophes for contraction and possession — and avoid the most common mistakes.

✓ Apostrophes are used for two purposes: contraction (showing missing letters) and possession (showing belonging).

✓ In a contraction, the apostrophe replaces the missing letters: do not → don't, I am → I'm.

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Planning and Structuring Stories

Learn how to plan and structure a story with a beginning, problem and satisfying ending.

✓ Most stories follow a structure: opening, build-up, problem (conflict), resolution and ending.

✓ The opening introduces the setting and characters; the problem creates tension that drives the story forward.

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Poetry and Poetic Devices

Explore the techniques that poets use — rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, personification and more.

✓ Poems often use rhythm (a regular beat) and rhyme (matching sounds at the end of lines) to create effect.

✓ Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of nearby words (e.g. 'slippery silver serpent').

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Prefixes and Suffixes

Discover how adding prefixes and suffixes to root words creates new words and meanings.

✓ A prefix is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning (e.g. un- + happy = unhappy).

✓ A suffix is added to the end of a word (e.g. play + -ful = playful; care + -less = careless).

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Adjectives and Adverbs

Learn how adjectives and adverbs add detail, precision and colour to your writing.

✓ An adjective describes or modifies a noun (e.g. the enormous, ancient tree).

✓ An adverb modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb, often describing how, when or where (e.g. she ran quickly).

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Similes and Metaphors

Learn the difference between similes and metaphors and how to use them powerfully.

✓ A simile compares two things using the words 'like' or 'as' (e.g. as brave as a lion).

✓ A metaphor describes something as if it actually is something else, without using 'like' or 'as' (e.g. the classroom was a zoo).

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Speech Marks and Direct Speech

Learn how to punctuate direct speech correctly in your writing.

✓ Speech marks (also called inverted commas or quotation marks) are placed around the exact words a character says.

✓ A new speaker always starts on a new line in written dialogue.

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Conjunctions and Connectives

Learn how conjunctions link ideas and make your sentences more sophisticated.

✓ Conjunctions are words that join clauses or sentences together, such as 'and', 'but', 'because', 'although' and 'while'.

✓ Co-ordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) join two equal clauses.