Y2

GPS

Using Simple Contractions Prior Learning

Worksheet
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Use this Year 2 Using Simple Contractions Prior Learning worksheet to assess children's understanding of how to use commas in lists before moving onto the learning for this lesson. Three varied fluency, one reasoning and two application questions provide a range of different question types for children to work through.

An answer sheet is provided to make marking and misconception checking quicker and easier. This worksheet could be used as a prior knowledge check before the lesson or with small groups of children who may be struggling or simply need a little extra support with knowing how to use commas in lists.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: apostrophes for contracted forms and apostrophes for the possessive (singular) / Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name] / Terminology for pupils: apostrophe