The building blocks · Years 3–6
La Gramática
Knowing words is not the same as knowing a language. The National Curriculum asks that by the end of Year 6 a child can spot the patterns, apply the rules, and read a Spanish word they have never seen — out loud, correctly. These five topics are those patterns.
Every example here is read aloud by a real teacher, the whole phrase and not just the word, so your child hears where the stress lands and how the sentence runs.
How to use this section
Grammar is not a unit to work through once. It is the thing you come back to when something in a lesson does not make sense.
- If your child reads a word wrong, send them to Los Sonidos. Almost every mispronunciation is one of those seven rules.
- If they keep saying el mochila, five minutes on Masculino y Femenino will fix it faster than correcting them.
- The practice at the bottom of each topic is short on purpose. Two minutes, often, beats twenty minutes once.
- None of this needs a grown-up who speaks Spanish. Everything is read aloud and marked on the page.
Still not clicking?
Grammar is the part where a 1-2-1 pays for itself fastest — most of it is one explanation away from making sense.