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Friday
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2
October
Spelling, Punctuation and
Grammar (SPAG)
Mrs Triglia and Miss O’Donnell
What do SPAG lessons
involve?
Talk amongst yourselves and add your
ideas to the sugar paper
What do SPAG lessons
involve?
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Spelling rules and exceptions
Punctuation
Grammar (Tenses)
Vocabulary (adjectives, adverbs)
Aims of today…
• Explain the terminology used within SPAG
lessons
• Explain what your child is expected to be
able to do by the end of Year 6
• Support you in your own subject
knowledge
• Provide you with ways that you can
support your child at home
Punctuation Pit Stop
Grammar Gap
Common misconceptions
• Using standard English (text speak,
writing how they speak.)
• Homophones (their, there, they’re)
• Children writing should of instead of
should have
• Use of first person I in lower case
• Use of apostrophe – correct place for
contracted words and possession
New Curriculum
• The importance of SPAG. There is a separate
test to assess their knowledge
• Children are expected to be fluent in reading,
writing and their spoken language.
• Editing and proofreading has a bigger focus so
this year we are continuing to use independent
writing books.
• Higher expectations for all year groups
• All year groups using writing passports across
the curriculum
Writing Passport
Key Stage 2
• The new national curriculum will be assessed for
the first time in May 2016
• The current Year 6 children will be the first to
sit these papers
• The key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation
and spelling test is designed to assess grammar,
punctuation, language strategies and spelling
Now you get to try a sample!
Here is an example of a SPAG progress
test that the children complete at the end of
each half term.
Renewing our subject knowledge
The children will need to know 8 main word types:
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Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Determiners
Prepositions
Pronouns
Conjunctions
Some subject knowledge for yourselves…
The following slides will be on the website
for you to refer to.
Nouns
Nouns are the biggest word class (everyone and everything needs a
name!)
A noun is the name of a person, place, animal, thing or idea.
• Nouns can be singular or plural
• They can be proper (Alsatian), common (dog),
collective (team), or abstract (justice). Abstract nouns (Lv6) are
those that you cannot see/touch and can be emotions.
• Noun phrases- a ‘phrase’ takes its name from the overall job that
this group of words is doing…
So – ‘the big, blue, shiny bicycle’ – is a noun phrase
Pronouns
Pronouns stand in for a noun,
I, you, he, she, it, we, they,
My, your, his, her, our, their.
Pronouns are important for ‘cohesion’.
If children overuse them, the reader is not sure who is
being discussed. If they underuse them, the writing can
sound very repetitive and boring.
Determiners
• Determiners … ‘home’ you in on the noun.
The most common determiners are
‘the’ and ‘a’
Some more determiners:
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this dog, that dog,
all dogs, every dog, some dogs, no dogs, each dog
one dog, two dogs
his dog, her dog, my dog ( what other category ?)
Verbs
Action words?
Find the action word in the following sentences
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We are enthusiastic teachers
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Many animals are endangered
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The boys played football
A verb is a ‘doing’ or a ‘being’ word. It tells us what is happening in the
sentence.
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The most common verb in the english language is the verb ‘to be’
A verb can be a single word or a group of words which together form the ‘verb
phrase’
The choir will be singing at the village hall.
The choir has been singing at the village hall.
The choir might be singing at the village hall.
The choir would have been singing at the village hall.
Adverbs
The lion was staring.
How?
The lion was staring menacingly.
Adverbs modify the verb.
They tell us how (adverb of manner), when (adverb of
time), or where (adverb of place).
Last Thursday, the lion was staring menacingly.
Last Thursday, at the Safari Park, the lion was staring menacingly out towards
the keepers.
Adverbs can move about the sentence, affecting the emphasis, but not
the meaning.
Prepositions
Prepositions express a relationship of meaning between 2
parts of a sentence, usually to do with space or time.
Simple prepositions may include:
about, across, after, at, before, behind, by, down,
during, for, from, to, inside, into, of, off, on, onto,
out, over, round, since, through, to, towards, under,
up, with.
See how many of these words you can use, in sentences
relating to your poster.
Adjectives
Describing words? How many adjectives can you find in
this highly descriptive passage?
The storm had ripped violently through the village, uprooting houses and
leaving possessions strewn across the valley. Pots, pans, tables, chairs,
household items of all kinds had been abandoned in the mud. No children
played in the playground, but a teddy –bear lay against the roundabout,
staring blankly at the scene.
An adjective describes ( or modifies) the noun.
• It might nestle close to the noun- or be elsewhere in the sentence..
The silver car stood in the driveway.
The car in the driveway was silver.
Conjunctions (Connectives)
Sentences can be made longer by joining two
clauses or parts of clauses together.
Words that link two parts of a sentence together
are called conjunctions ( the word ‘connective’ is
used in the draft/sample test material).
For example …because, so, while, for, and, but,
or, yet, even though, provided that….
Helpful websites and resources
CPG books
• KS2 English: Grammar,
Punctuation and Spelling
Study Book
• KS2 English Targeted
Question Book: Grammar,
Punctuation & Spelling Year 5
Helpful websites and resources
for Year 6
CPG books
• KS2 English Targeted
Question Book: Grammar,
Punctuation & Spelling Year 6
• KS2 English SAT Buster Grammar
Helpful website
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/englis
h/spelling_grammar/