Transcript KS1 Literacy information evening

KS1 English
Parent Workshop
January 2015
Agenda
• English and the 2014 Curriculum
• How we teach SPaG
• Sample questions from the 2016 SPaG
test
• How to help your children at home
Aims
• Enable you to understand the changes occurring
in English due to the new curriculum
• Provide you with a greater understanding of how
English is taught in school and progression of
spelling, punctuation and grammar through Key
Stage 1.
• Enable you to see the types of different
questions children will be asked to do by the end
of Year 2.
• Help you understand how you can help your
child at home.
The New Curriculum: Reading
In reading, the post-2014 curriculum will require:
• Greater emphasis on the role of synthetic
phonics as the recommended strategy for
teaching
• Increased focus on reading for pleasure, and not
simply reading for information
• Greater emphasis on reading poetry and fiction
• Greater emphasis on the role of discussion
during reading activities
• Pupils to ask, and answer, questions about a
text
• Pupils to read whole texts, and not just extracts
Year 1 phonics test
Year 2 reading test (2016)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads
/attachment_data/file/328853/2014_KS1_English_readi
ng_sample_materials.pdf
The New Curriculum: Writing
In writing, the post-2014 curriculum will
require:
• The introduction of ‘common exception
words’
• An emphasis on the role of spelling and,
specifically, being able to spell the 40+
phonemes and days of the week
• Pupils to write passages dictated by the
teacher
The New Curriculum: handwriting
• In handwriting, the curriculum will require:
• Pupils to learn to write numbers 1 to 9
• The requirement to identify correlations
between handwriting ‘families’
• ‘Frequent and discrete, direct’ teaching
• More directive compositional strategies
• Pupils to learn to use horizontal and
diagonal strokes to join letters
• Pupils to develop ‘stamina’ for writing by
writing in a range of styles, including poetry
How we teach SPaG
• Daily phonics groups (x4 per week) to
learn the read and spell the phonemes
and graphemes
• Discretely, for one lesson out of 5 English
lessons each week (class 2)
• As a part of an English lesson
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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar –
Yr1
To leave spaces between words
Recognise capital letters and full stops when reading and name them correctly
Begin to use the term sentence
Know that a line of writing is not necessarily a sentence
To use full stops to demarcate sentences
To use a capital letter for the personal pronoun and the start of a sentence
To join words and join sentences using ‘and’
Recognise full stops and capital letters when reading and understand how they affect the way a
passage is read
• To recognise other common uses of capitalisation e.g. for personal titles, headings, book titles,
emphasis, days of the week
• To add question marks to questions
• To use exclamation marks
Spelling , Punctuation and Grammar
Yr 2
• To use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate
sentences, including in the use of Proper Nouns.
• To identify nouns within sentences
• To use nouns accurately within sentences
• To know and use Proper Nouns
• To be able to expand nouns phrases for description and specification
• To use subordination within sentences (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and,
but) for description and specification
• To know what an adjective is
• To identify adjectives within sentences
• To use adjectives accurately within sentences
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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Yr 2
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To know how the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or
command
To use correct choice and consistent use of present and past tense throughout writing. To use the progressive form of verbs
in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress (e.g. she is drumming, he was shouting).
To know what a verb is
To identify verbs within sentences
To use verbs accurately within sentences
To write sentences with subject-verb agreements
To correct sentences with subject/verb agreements that are incorrect
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To use apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns.
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To use commas to separate items in a list
Selecting correct punctuation to end a sentence. (!...?.)
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Questions from the sample
SPaG test for 2016
Common exception words
How to help at home
• READ!! Read with and to your child – all sorts of
text, allowing the children to scan the text as you
read.
• Ask lots of questions and make predictions
• Extend their vocabulary
• Practise spelling homework and revisit it several
weeks later
• Use Websites – e.g Phonics Play
• Reinforce our handwriting
• Encourage your child to write for pleasure (in
sentences).