Y3 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Apostrophes 1 Lesson
This Year 3 Apostrophes 1 lesson covers the prior learning of recognising apostrophes before moving onto the main skill of using apostrophes for contractions.
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. 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 Objectives
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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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of recognising apostrophes before moving onto the main skill of using apostrophes for contractions. 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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Year 3 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write
Autumn Block 1 Guidance with Notes for Year 3 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 3 National Curriculum.
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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
In this Apostrophes Video Tutorial, Katie shows pupils how to use apostrophes for contraction and singular possession.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Apostrophes 1 Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of contractions before moving onto the main skill of apostrophes for omission.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 2 Apostrophes activity checks pupils' understanding of recognising and using contractions.
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 Apostrophes for Contraction Game checks pupils’ understanding of using apostrophes for contraction accurately.
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 Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of identifying and using apostrophes for omission.
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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 this Apostrophes 1 lesson.
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.
