English · Curriculum
The English curriculum, in one view
Twelve chapters. The first three lay the foundation: word order, the top hundred lemmas, and the present tense. Chapters four through twelve drop a new band of high-frequency vocabulary every hundred ranks, weave in the AQA Foundation grammar that activates each band, and end with a graded reader you can finish using only the words you've learned so far.
Teachers: every printable resource, chapter by chapter- Chapters
- 1
- Lessons
- 8
- Grammar primers
- 2
- Story milestones
- 1
The grammar arc, chapter by chapter
Every chapter from 4 onwards interleaves grammar with the rank batches, so a learner alternates between drilling words and unlocking the construction that turns those words into sentences. This is the arc:
What you can do when you finish
- Read the rank-1000 graded reader at the end of Chapter 12 with no lookups - every content word is from the chapters you've just worked through.
- Hold a present-and-past tense conversation: ask questions, talk about routines, narrate something that happened yesterday.
- Hedge a request politely with the conditional ("I would like...", "could you...").
- Recognise (and partly produce) the AQA GCSE Foundation grammar inventory - the formal benchmark for the curriculum.