Y1 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This Leaving Spaces Between Words lesson covers the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label dog related words, before moving onto the main skill of leaving spaces between words when writing.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. 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) Leaving spaces between words
English Year 1: (1G5) Separation of words with spaces
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning applying phonics sounds to label dog related words, before moving onto the main skill of leaving spaces between words. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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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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This is a free scheme of work for Year 1 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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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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Katie looks at spaces in our writing and demonstrates how we can use our fingers to help in this Leaving Spaces Between Words Video Tutorial.
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This Leaving Spaces Between Words Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label dog related words, before moving onto the main skill of leaving spaces between words when writing.
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This Reception Dog Labelling Game is designed to check pupils' ability to apply their phonics knowledge to label images of dog related words.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, application and reasoning questions for pupils to practise the main skill of leaving spaces between words.
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This Year 1 Leaving Spaces Between Words Game checks pupil’s understanding of correctly using spaces between words.
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This Year 1 Leaving Spaces Between Words Flash Card Activity allows pupils to practise spotting where a space in a sentence is needed.
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This Year 1 Leaving Spaces Between Words Image Pair game checks pupils understanding of using finger spaces.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the X lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.