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Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Ready to Write Resource Pack

Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Resources

Step 6: Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Resources

Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and application and reasoning resources. This pack is designed to work alongside our GPS Scheme of Work for Autumn Block 1.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

  • Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Teaching PowerPoint.
  • Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Varied Fluency with answers.
  • Spacing Letters and Words Year 1 Application and Reasoning with answers.

National Curriculum Objectives

English Year 1: (1G5) Leaving spaces between words

English Year 1: (1G5) Separation of words with spaces

Terminology for pupils: (1G5.1) letter

Terminology for pupils: (1G6) word

Differentiation:

Varied Fluency
Developing Questions to support identifying a spacing error in a short phrase (two simple nouns joined with ‘and’). Using sentences or phrases of up to four words, containing words up to and including CVC words.
Expected Questions to support identifying spacing errors in letters and words within a short sentence. Using sentences or phrases of up to five words, containing words up to and including CVC words.
Greater Depth Questions to support identifying spacing errors in letters and words (including punctuation) within pairs of short sentences. Using sentences or phrases of up to six words, containing words up to and including CVCC and CCVC words with an increasing amount of ascenders and descenders within words.

Application and Reasoning
Questions 1, 4 and 7 (Application)
Developing Rewrite a given sentence containing errors so that it is presented correctly. Sentences of up to four words, containing words up to and including CVC are used.
Expected Rewrite a given sentence containing errors so that it is presented correctly. Sentences of up to five words, containing up to and including CVCC and CCVC are used.
Greater Depth Rewrite a given sentence containing errors so that it is presented correctly. Sentences of up to six words, containing words up to and including CVCC and CCVC words with an increasing amount of ascenders and descenders are used.

Questions 2, 5 and 8 (Reasoning)
Developing Explain the error a child has made in identifying spacing mistakes. Sentences or phrases of up to four words, containing words up to and including CVC are used.
Expected Explain the error a child has made in identifying spacing mistakes in a sentence. Sentences of up to five words, containing up to and including CVCC and CCVC are used.
Greater Depth Explain the error a child has made in identifying spacing mistakes in two sentences. Sentences of up to six words, containing words up to and including CVCC and CCVC words with an increasing amount of ascenders and descenders are used.

Questions 3, 6 and 9 (Application)
Developing Spot the difference between two versions of a simple sentence or phrase. Sentences or phrases of up to four words, containing words up to and including CVC are used.
Expected Spot the difference between two versions of the same sentence. Sentences of up to five words, containing up to and including CVCC and CCVC are used.
Greater Depth Spot the difference between two versions of the same two sentences. Sentences of up to six words, containing words up to and including CVCC and CCVC words with an increasing amount of ascenders and descenders are used.

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