Y1 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This Writing the Date lesson covers the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label party related images, before moving onto the main skill of writing the date.
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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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label party related images, before moving onto the main skill of writing the date. 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 resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 5 small steps with guidance for teaching. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the GPS objectives from the Year 1 National Curriculum.
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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 Writing the Date Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of applying phonics skills to label different party related images, before moving onto the main skill of writing the date.
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This Reception Party Labelling Game is designed to check pupils' ability to use their phonics knowledge to label party related images.
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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, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of writing the date.
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This Year 1 Capital Letters Game aims to support pupils’ understanding of using capital letters for dates.
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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 Writing the Date lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.