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Mrs Shah and Mrs Bush
In the summer term 2016, children at the end of Key Stage
1 will sit new SATs papers. That means that if your child is
currently in Reception or Year 1, they will be among the
first pupils to take the new test.
At the end of Year 2, children will take SATs in:
- Reading
-English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Maths
It is very likely that in the next few years there will be
tests in Year 3 or Year 4 for English grammar,
punctuation and spelling just like the SATs.
What is Grammar?
The structure of a sentence.
Grammatically correct sentences are sentences
which make sense.
The boy flew his paper plane over the large
house.
The boy flies his paper plane over the large
house.
The boy’s paper plane over the large house.
The English language has a number of
different classes of words which all have
different parts to play in a sentence.
Nouns are used to name people, animals,
places and things.
The goat’s afternoon was ruined when a flock
of birds swooped down and snatched the
piece of bread from Emily’s hand.
Pronouns are words that take the place of a
noun.
She gave them a guitar lesson.
Verbs- Describe what a person or thing is
doing or being.
Josh looked everywhere for his broken
skates.
Adjectives are words or phrases that
describes nouns or pronouns.
The weary painter painted the walls in his
blue, green and white overalls.
Determiners- placed before a noun and help
define it.
Several furious members of the coven held a
meeting on their broomsticks. “That witch
has nine shrieking bats!” they grumbled.
Prepositions- describes where something is
e.g. under, nearby, next to.
They raced down the hill and through a
stream and stopped next to a bridge.
Conjunctions connects words, phrases and
clauses.
Flora tried to water her roses and
sunflowers, but the hose burst. She cut both
the hedge and the tree because they were
too tall.
A noun is an object – a
person, place or thing.
True
An adjective is an action
word.
False
An verb is a describing
word.
False
An adverb describes how the
verb is done.
True
A preposition describes where
something is.
True
A pronoun takes the place
of a verb.
False
Phrases are a group of words that make up a
part of a sentence.
The drummer, very red-faced, strode angrily
across the stage.
Clauses are a group of words which contains a
subject and a verb.
There are two different types; main clauses and
subordinate clauses.
Main clauses are the same as a simple sentence
and make sense on their own.
The cat slept.
Subordinate clauses do not make sense on their
own and need the main clause for its meaning.
The cat slept because the cat was lazy.
All sentences need a subject (a noun or
pronoun) an action (a verb) and an object
(another noun or pronoun)
The raccoon climbed the tree.
The children read a book.
There are different types of sentences which vary in
complexity.
 Simple
sentences which has a main clause.
 Complex
The chef cooked dinner.
sentences which is made up of one
main clause and one or more subordinate
clauses.
The chef cooked dinner because his friends were
coming over.
 Compound
sentences are made up of two main
clauses which are joined by a conjunction.
The chef cooks dinner yet he hates chicken.
Look at these lists of nouns and verbs. Pick
one from each and make a sentence that
makes sense.
e.g. The boy rushed downstairs and ran outside.
Nouns
engine
pencil
tree
window
burglar
Verbs
groaned
stole
snapped
revved
rattled
Think of two animals and write a sentence
about each using two adjectives and an
adverb.
e.g. The old dairy cow moved slowly to
the milking shed.
Pick the correct word for each sentence
below.
1. We was / were eating cake.
2.I was / were eating cake.
3.Jimmy go / goes to school with me.
4.I go / goes to school with Jimmy.
5.My dogs takes / take me for a walk.
6.My dog takes / take me for a walk.
7.We are /am brilliant at grammar.
8.I are / am brilliant at grammar.
Change all the underlined verbs from the
past tense to the present tense.
1.I ran all the way home.
2.He hides under the table.
3.I waved at the queen and shouted.
4.I was thinking about my maths.
5.They were running towards the hill.
6.We were making lots of mess.
Now write a sentence in the past tense and
then rewrite it in the present tense.
are is
has have
Use the correct verb in each sentence
below:
1. Benny and James ___________ gone outside.
2. The dogs ___________ sitting by the fire.
3. Sammy ____________ remembered his homework.
4. My football coach __________ teaching me how to
dribble.
5. Elephants ______ wonderful animals.
6. I love my bags. They _____________ beautiful.
7. School uniform __________ better than mufty.
8. He _____ gone away on holiday.
Pick the correct word or words
from the options for each
sentence below:
1. The window was broke / broken / broked / breaked by the ball.
2. Mandy writ / wrote / witten / has wrote a letter.
3. Benjie has eaten / eated / ate / eaten a large cucumber.
Use I or me for each sentence
below:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
I wanted Dad to watch ________ in the football match.
He walked to school with Danny and ____ .
My teacher told Terry and ____ to collect the books.
Eddie came to school with Jim and _____ .
Ben and ____ are going to the cinema tomorrow.
Select the correct plural for each sentence.
1.The child / children / childs are playing on the
field.
2.Women / woman / womens / womans are welcome
to use the upstairs toilet.
3.Sheeps / sheep look nice and warm with their thick
coats.
4.I like to watch the fishes / fish / fishs at the
aquarium.
5.My foots
/ feets
/ feetuse
ache
Which
of these
sentences
thetoday.
correct plural?
6.The mouses / mice / mices enjoyed the cheese.
a.
b.
c.
The childs are eating lots of cake.
Gentleman usually wear trousers or shorts.
The children enjoyed watching the play.
The tense of a verb indicates when an action
has taken place.
Past
We laughed. We cried. We sang. We learnt.
Present
We smile. We cry. We learn. We sing.
Future
We shall laugh. We shall cry. We shall learn. We
shall sing.
These are the marks used in writing that help
readers understand what they are reading.
Full stop
Comma
Exclamation mark
Ellipsis
Question mark
Semi-colon
Apostrophe
Brackets
Capital letters
Colon
Inverted commas
Copy the sentence below, adding the correct
punctuation.
that piece of cheese has been sitting
on the court since last spring it must
have dropped out of someones
sandwich or something after a couple
of days the cheese started getting all
mouldy and nasty nobody would play
basketball where the cheese was
Spellings
It is really important that you help your
children to learn their spellings. Confidence in
spelling allows children to write more
freely and imaginatively.
You should practise your spellings for 10
EVERY day and not just the ones that
teachers give. Remember – the more children
read and see words around them, the better
their spelling will be.
Pupils should be taught to spell
by:
segmenting words – b/r/oo/m
Knowing homophones and near
homophones – sun/son, bury/berry
adding prefixes - untidy
adding suffixes to spell longer words,
including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
applying spelling rules
These spellings focus on prefixes and suffixes.
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untied
unhappy
dislike
disagree
comfortable
impossible
kindness
Accidentally
Can you identify the prefix or suffix in
each word and tell us what they mean?
Vocabulary
Does your child have a Thesaurus?
dire
cruel
terrible
ghastly
BADunpleasant
mean
Look at the underlined words in the
sentences below. Replace them with words
that have a similar meaning.
1.He liked eating cake.
2.Casey had a nice coat to wear.
3.“Ouch!” said Mrs Fox.
4.Which of these is the biggest?
5.In the dark she felt anxious.
6.My favourite book is the one with the red cover.
Now make a list of alternative words for
said.
Sort these words into 3 columns: nouns,
verbs and adverbs.
to run
monster
be
very
casually
eat
slowly
cake
am
cat