Year 2 End of Year GPS Assessment

Year 2 End of Year GPS Assessment

Year 2 End of Year GPS Assessment

This Year 2 End of Year GPS Assessment helps identify progress by assessing against each of the Year 2 National Curriculum Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling objectives. The Teacher Objectives Sheet allows you to identify progress as well as gaps in pupils' knowledge.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

  • Year 2 End of Year GPS Assessment. Answers included.
  • Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.

Year 2 National Curriculum Objectives:

Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly (see English appendix 2) including:

  1. (2G5.1) capital letters
  2. (2G5.2) full stops
  3. (2G5.4) exclamation marks
  4. (2G5.3) question marks
  5. (2G5.5) commas for lists
  6. (2G5.8) apostrophes for contracted forms
  7. (2G5.8) apostrophes for the possessive (singular)

Learn how to use:

Sentences with different forms:

  1. (2G2.1) statement
  2. (2G2.2) question
  3. (2G2.4) exclamation
  4. (2G2.3) command

6 & 7.(2G3.2) Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]

  1. (2G4.2) The present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
  2. (2G3.3) Co-ordination (using or, and, or but)
  3. (2G3.4) Subordination (using when, if, that, or because)

* (2G7.1) Some features of written Standard English

English Appendix 2 guidance:

11 & 12. (2G6.3) Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman]

  1. (2G6.3) Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in English Appendix 1)
  2. (2G6.3) Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives
  3. (2G1.6) Use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs
  4. (2G3.4) Subordination (using when, if, that, because)
  5. (2G3.3) Co-ordination (using or, and, but)

6 & 7. (2G3.2) Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon]

  1. (2G2.1) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement
  2. (2G2.2) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a question
  3. (2G2.4) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a exclamation
  4. (2G2.3) How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a command

* (2G4.2) Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing

  1. (2G4.1d) Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress [for example, she is drumming, he was shouting]
  2. (2G5.1) Use of capital letters to demarcate sentences
  3. (2G5.2) Use of full stops to demarcate sentences
  4. (2G5.3) Use of question marks to demarcate sentences
  5. (2G5.4) Use of exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
  6. (2G5.5) Commas to separate items in a list
  7. (2G5.8) 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:

6 & 7.(2G1.1) noun

6 & 7.(2G3.2) noun phrase

  1. (2G2.1) statement
  2. (2G2.2) question
  3. (2G2.4) exclamation
  4. (2G2.3) command
  5. (2G6.3) compound

11, 13 & 14. (2G6.3) suffix

  1. (2G1.3) adjective
  2. (2G1.6) adverb
  3. (2G1.2) verb

14 & 15. (2G4.2) tense (past, present)

  1. (2G5.8) apostrophe

3. (2G5.5) comma

* Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 in discussing their writing

*These objectives are not covered in the end of year assessment

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