Are you looking for a quick-fire activity to elevate your children's grammar skills? This Year 3 5-Minute GPS Summer 2 Week 2 resource could be just what you need to keep those important, but tricky-to-remember, grammar rules in children's working memories.
Each of the 3 question slides has been carefully curated to match what they have already learnt, and answer sheets are provided to enable quick and easy self-marking.
Designed to be displayed on the interactive whiteboard for early morning work, a lesson starter, or a 5-minute challenge, this colourful resource ties in with our grammar, punctuation and spelling curriculum and our ever-popular grammar assessments.
Download it today to take grammar confidence in your classroom to a new level.
Curriculum Objectives
- Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including: commas for lists / Commas to separate items in a list / Terminology for pupils: comma
- Learn how to use: Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly] / Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon] / Terminology for pupils: noun phrase
- Terminology for pupils: subordinate clause
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense / Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past [for example, He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play]
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using conjunctions to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because] / Terminology for pupils: conjunction
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using adverbs to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore]
- Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by: Using prepositions to express time and cause / Express time, place and cause using prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of] / Terminology for pupils: preposition
- Use the forms a or an according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel [for example, a rock, an open box] / Terminology for pupils: consonant / Terminology for pupils: consonant letter / Terminology for pupils: vowel / Terminology for pupils: vowel letter
- Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning [for example, solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble] / Terminology for pupils: word family
- Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech / Terminology for pupils: direct speech / Terminology for pupils: inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’)
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Summer
2G5.5
2G3.2
3G3.4
3G4.1b
3G1.4
3G1.6
3G1.7
3G1.8
3G6.4
3G5.7
