Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Capital Letters Lesson
This Capital Letters lesson covers the prior learning of using capital letters and full stops, before moving onto the main skill of capital letters.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging varied fluency and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objective
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’
English Year 2: (2G5.1) Use of capital letters to demarcate sentences
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2 Teaching Support
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of using capital letters and full stops, before moving onto the main skill of capital letters.. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Scheme of Work
This is a free scheme of work for Year 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the first block in the teaching sequence and includes 6 small steps with guidance for teaching.
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Lesson Slides
These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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Video Tutorial
This Capital Letters to Start Sentences Video Tutorial explains how to punctuate sentences using capital letters.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Capital Letters Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of using capital letters and full stops before moving onto the main skill of capital letters.
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Flash Cards Activity
This Year 1 Punctuating Sentences Capital Letters Flash Cards Game aims to support pupils’ basic punctuation knowledge.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 2 Using Capital Letters Game checks pupils’ understanding of using capital letters to start a sentence, proper nouns and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 2 Capital Letters Game checks pupils’ understanding of using capital letters to start a sentence and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
2 Application
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Mixed Practice
This main activity includes varied fluency and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of capital letters.
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Application
This capital letters application task includes an activity which can be used to allow pupils to apply their understanding of the concepts taught in the capital letters lesson.
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
