Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Recognising and Using Exclamations Lesson
This Recognising and Using Exclamations lesson covers the prior learning of recognising the features of a question, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using exclamations.
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 (2G2.4) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as an exclamation
English Year 2 (2G2.1) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of recognising the features of a question, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using exclamations. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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 Spring Block 3 - Sentence Types 2
This is a free scheme of work for Year 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 5 small steps with guidance for teaching.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Recognising and Using Exclamations Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of recognisng the features of a question, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using exclamations.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 2 Question Sentences activity checks pupils’ understanding of whether a sentence is a question or not.
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.
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 recognising and using exclamations.
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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 Recognsing and Using Exclamations lesson.
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.
