Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Commands Lesson
This Commands lesson covers the prior learning of using one-word exclamations, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using commands.
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 2: (2G2.3) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a command
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2 Teaching Support
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of recognising questions, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using questions. 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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Free Year 2 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 5 – Sentence Types 1
This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 4 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 2 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.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Commands Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of one-word exclamations before moving onto the main skill of commands.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 1 Using Exclamation Marks Game checks pupils’ understanding of when to use an exclamation mark within their writing.
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 Year 2 Question Sentences activity checks pupils’ understanding of whether a sentence is a question or not.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 2 Commands Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise and use commands, including imperative verbs and punctuation.
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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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Commands lesson.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising and using commands.
2 Homework
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Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
