Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Consolidating the Alphabet - Upper and Lower Case Letters Lesson
This Consolidating the Alphabet lesson covers the prior learning of the alphabet, before moving onto the main skill of consolidating knowledge of the alphabet, including both upper and lower-case letters.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning 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’
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through prior learning of the alphabet, before moving onto the main skill of consolidating knowledge of the alphabet, including both upper and lower-case letters. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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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Free Year 2 GPS Scheme of Work Summer Block 2 – Consolidation
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.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Consolidating the Alphabet Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of the alphabet, before moving onto the main skill of consolidating knowledge of the alphabet, including both upper and lower-case letters.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 1 The Alphabet Game is designed to check pupils' understanding of ordering the letters of the alphabet correctly.
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.
2 Application
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of consolidating their knowledge of the alphabet, including both upper and lower-case letters.
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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Consolidating the Alphabet lesson.
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
2 Homework
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
