Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This When Should you NOT use an Apostrophe? lesson covers the prior learning of recognising apostrophes and using apostrophes for plural possession before moving onto the main skill of understanding when not to use an apostrophe.
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 4: (4G5.8) Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns
English Year 4: (4G5.8) The grammatical difference between plural and possessive –s
English Year 4: (4G5.8) Apostrophes to mark plural possession [for example, the girl’s name, the girls’ names]
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This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of recognising apostrophes and using apostrophes for plural possession, before moving onto the main skill of when should you not use an apostrophe. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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 4 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the first 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 Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 4 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 When Should you NOT use an Apostrophe? Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of recognising apostrophes and using apostrophes for plural possession before moving onto the main skill of understanding when not to use an apostrophe.
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This Year 4 GPS Recognising Apostrophes activity includes 5 questions designed to support recognition of apostrophes for possession and contraction within a variety of sentences.
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This Year 4 Using Apostrophes for Plural Possession activity checks pupils' understanding of using apostrophes to show plural possession.
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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 4 When Should you NOT use an Apostrophe? Game is designed to check pupils' ability to use apostrophes correctly.
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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 When Should you NOT use an Apostrophe? lesson.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of understanding when not to use an apostrophe.
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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.