
Builds on Jolly Phonics and levels to teach simple and compound sentences, phrases and clauses, infinitives, homophones, and subject-verb agreement, while expanding vocabulary, punctuation, and understanding of parts of speech.
Master verbs as the heart of the sentence by exploring passing verbs, tense shifting, and person, and practicing verb phrases, regular and irregular forms to improve grammar accuracy.
Learn sentence construction by mastering simple and compound sentences, using conjunctions like and, but, or, so, because, and while, and practice comma usage before conjunctions. Build clear, connected writing.
Master subject-verb agreement by aligning singular and plural subjects with the correct verb forms, including third-person -s/-es, and handling tricky cases with intervening words and compound subjects.
Expand vocabulary through synonyms, antonyms, and root words, with prefixes and suffixes. Explore examples like big and large, and happy and joyful, to improve reading, writing, and expressing ideas clearly.
Explore concrete nouns by identifying people, places, and things experienced through the five senses—see, hear, taste, smell, and touch—and categorize them accordingly.
Identify abstract nouns by comparing them to concrete nouns using the five senses, recognizing feelings, ideas, and events as things you cannot touch or see.
Explore possessive nouns, formed with an apostrophe plus s for singulars and after the s for regular plurals, with irregular plurals like children's and women's, plus the difference from contractions.
Explore tricky plurals by transforming f or fe endings into ves, with examples like shelves, knives, and thieves. Learn spelling rule exceptions and practice grammatical agreements in sentences.
Learn how the present participle, a verb ending in ing, forms continuous tenses and can function as an adjective, as shown by examples like thinking, running, fleeing, and waving.
This lesson teaches how to form adjectives with suffixes such as y and l, like windy and logical, and to compare items using comparatives and superlatives with -er/-est or more/most.
Learn to form simple and compound sentences by joining two or more simple sentences with coordinating conjunctions such as for, nor, but, or, yet, and.
practice distinguishing statements, questions, and exclamations, and learn how end punctuation signals sentence type. identify whether examples are questions, statements, or sentences through guided activities in the resource bank.
This course follows on from the Jolly Phonics course and the Jolly Grammar levels 3 course.
The Jolly Grammar Level 4 course will extend, consolidate and refine the teaching of the previous years. The following will be taught:
the difference between simple and compound sentences,
how statements can be turned into questions, how to distinguish between a phrase, a clause and an independent clause.
How to distinguish between a phrase and a sentence.
How to identify the subject and object of a sentence.
How to organize sentences into paragraphs.
How to form the continuous tenses.
New parts of speech will be introduced namely:
collective nouns, irregular plurals, possessive nouns and object pronouns.
There will regular parsing practice with the aim of building dictionary skills, improving vocabulary and reinforcing grammar knowledge.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Grammatical persons and tenses.
Subject – verb agreement.
Infinitives.
Concrete nouns.
Abstract nouns.
Possessive nouns.
Synonyms.
Noun phrases.
Onomatopoeia
Long place names as Nouns.
Collective Nouns.
More irregular plurals, including nouns.
Possessive pronouns.
Subject and Object of a sentence.
Subject Pronouns and Object Pronouns.
Present Participle.
Nouns acting as Adjectives.
NEW! June 2026 Update
Detailed Course Breakdown
As you can see, this course is updated frequently with new lessons, projects and resources!
NEW! lesson 1 Mastery Verbs
NEW! LESSON 2 Sentence construction
NEW! Lesson 3 Subject verb agreement
NEW! Lesson 4 Vocabulary Expansion
NEW! Lesson 5 Clause phrase and sentence
NEW! Lesson 6 Hypen Use and Alternative
Course Goals
· Reinforce and extend phonic knowledge.
Teach spelling systematically.
Expand vocabulary and improve comprehension.
Introduce Nouns acting as Adjectives.
Introduce morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes.
Enable the children to analyse and parse text.
Introduce syntax and sentence structure.
Develop the children’s use of punctuation.
Develop the children’s dictionary and thesaurus skills.