This is a free scheme of work for Year 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 13 small steps with guidance for teaching. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 2 National Curriculum.
This pack includes:
National Curriculum Objectives:
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’
Terminology for pupils:
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Introduction to capital letters to demarcate sentences
English Year 1: (1G5.2) Introduction to full stops to demarcate sentences
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter
English Year 1: (1G5.2) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a full stop
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’
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English Year 1: (1G3.1) How words can combine to make sentences
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English Year 1: (1G5.1) Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’
Mathematics Year 1: (1M4c) Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Introduction to capital letters to demarcate sentences
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter
English Year 1: (1G5.2) Beginning to punctuate sentences using a full stop
English Year 1: (1G5.2) Introduction to full stops to demarcate sentences
English Year 1: (1G3.3) Joining words and joining clauses using ‘and’
English Year 1: (1G3.1) How words can combine to make sentences
English Year 2: (2G3.3) Co-ordination (using or, and, or but)
Terminology for pupils:
English Year 2: (2G5.5) Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly (see English appendix 2) including: commas for lists
English Year 2:(2G5.5) Commas to separate items in a list
English Year 2:(2G3.3) Co-ordination (using or, and, or but)
English Year 2:(2G3.4) Subordination (using when, if, that, or because)
Terminology for pupils:
English Year 1: (1G6.2) How the prefix un– changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives [negation, for example, unkind, or undoing: untie the boat]
English Year 1: (1G6.3) Suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words (e.g. helping, helped, helper)
Spelling: Apply the spelling rules for adding the endings –ing, –ed and –er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word
English Year 2: (2G6.3) Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman]
English Year 2:(2G6.3) Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in English Appendix 1)
English Year 2: (2G6.3) Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives
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English Year 2: (1G6.3) Regular plural noun suffixes –s or –es [for example, dog, dogs; wish, wishes], including the effects of these suffixes on the meaning of the noun
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English Year 2: (2G1.6) Use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs
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English Year 2: (2G5.8) Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name]
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English Year 2: (2G2.2) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a question
English Year 2: (2G2.3) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a command
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English Year 2: (2G2.4) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a exclamation
English Year 2: (2G2.1) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement
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English Year 2: (2G4.2) Learn how to use the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
English Year 2: (2G4.2) Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing
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Small Steps
1.Consolidation the Alphabet – Upper and Lower Case
2.Consolidating Punctuating Sentences
3.Consolidating Nouns and Verbs
4.Consolidating Capital Letters
5.Consolidating Conjunctions
6.Consolidating Commas and Conjunctions
7.Consolidating Singular or Plural
8.Consolidating Prefixes and Suffixes
9.Consolidating Adverbs
10.Consolidating Apostrophes
11.Consolidation of Sentence Types 1
12.Consolidation of Sentence Types 2
13.Consolidating Past and Present Tense
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