Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns lesson covers the prior learning of using capital letters, before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.
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 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’
English Year 1: (1G5.1) Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun I
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of using capital letters, before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns. 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 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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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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This Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of capital letters before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.
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This Year 1 Nouns Game supports children to recognise nouns in sentences and sort words that are nouns.
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This Capital Letters Year 1 Game aims to supports pupils’ understanding and application of using capital letters for names.
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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 Year 2 Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise noun types.
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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 Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns lesson.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.