Year 1
Adjective
Word that describes a noun.
Alphabet
All the letters in order from A to Z.
Article
A, an, and the are articles. Articles usually go in front of nouns. For example: a ball, an elephant, the mouse.
Capital letter
Special way of writing a letter at the start of a sentence or a name. For example: A, B, C.
Consonant
Any letter that is not a vowel. You use your lips, teeth, or tongue to say these letters out loud.
Exclamation mark
Punctuation mark. It shows something is said loudly or with lots of emotion.
Full stop
Punctuation mark that goes at the end of a sentence.
Label
Short piece of writing that helps to explain a picture. Sometimes a label is only one or two words.
Noun
Word for a person, place, or thing.
Plural
More than one of a thing. You often add the letter s to a noun to make it plural, but not always.
Proper noun
Special name for a person, place, or thing. A proper noun begins with a capital letter.
Punctuation
Marks that we put in our writing to make it clear.
Question mark
Punctuation mark. It shows a sentence is asking something.
Rhyme
Short poem that rhymes.
Sentence
Group of words that gives a whole idea. It has to have an action (verb). A sentence always starts with a capital letter.
Sequence
If you sequence things, you put them into an order. Events in a story can be put into a sequence, for example: Beginning, Middle, End or First, Next, Last.
Singular
Only one of a thing.
Suffix
Letters that you put at the end of a word to make a new word. We put the suffix —ing at the end of the word play to make playing.
Verb
Word that describes an action. It is sometimes called a 'doing word'.
Vowel
The vowel letters are: a, e, i, o, and u (and sometimes y).