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SPaG in Year 2
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Spelling
Punctuation
and
Grammar in Year 2
KS1 SPaG tests consist of:
• English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 1: spelling
(expected that the test will take approximately 15 minutes to
complete, writing the 20 missing words in the answer booklet)
• English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 2: questions (focusing on pupil’s knowledge of grammar, punctuation and
vocabulary expected that the test will take approximately 20 minutes to complete but is not strictly
timed)
SPELLING RULES
Children working at the expected standard will
• segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many
correctly
• spell many of the common exception words
• knows the difference in meaning between taught homophones and near homophones e.g.
their/there/they’re, quite/quiet
• spell some words with contracted forms , where the apostrophe represent an omitted
letter or letters
• use the possessive apostrophe (singular) e.g. the girl’s book
• add suffixes to spell words correctly in their writing
e.g. –ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly
• Year 2 spelling rules
(see Appendix 1 of the new national curriculum)
PUNCTUATION
Children working at the expected standard will
• demarcate most sentences with capital letters and full stops and with some
use of question marks and exclamation marks
• use both familiar and new punctuation correctly most of the time,
including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks,
commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive.
GRAMMAR
Children working at the expected standard will
• use sentences in different forms in their writing (statements, questions,
exclamations and commands)
• use some expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
e.g. the blue butterfly
• use present and past tense consistently
• expand sentences using co-ordination (and, or, but) and some subordination
(when, if that, because)
• use appropriate adjectives and adverbs to give essential information
flour, rather than ‘flour’ or ‘fluffy, white flour’
e.g. plain
GRAMMAR
Children are expected to use grammatical terminology to talk about
their writing
noun, noun phrase, adjective, adverb, verb,
statement, question, exclamation, command,
compound, suffix, tense (past, present), apostrophe,
comma
Year 2 Terminology explained
noun
a person, place, animal or thing
noun phrase
used to give more information about the noun and describe it noun + adjective
adjective
a word that describes a noun
adverb
a word to describe a verb e.g. He ran quickly.
verb
an action word e.g. jump
sentence
a sentence always starts with a capital letter, ends with a full stop (or question or exclamation mark), makes complete sense
and has a verb
statement
a type of sentence (fact /expresses opinion) The car drove quickly.
question
a type of sentence (often begins with who, what, where, when, why, how, or do, and it ends with a question mark) Where are
you going?
command
a type of sentence (tells someone what to do) Come here now!
exclamation
a type of sentence (expresses great emotion such as excitement, surprise, happiness and anger, and ends with an
exclamation point) How amazing!
compound (word)
two or more words which are joined together play + ground = playground
suffix
a group of letters added to the end of a root word e.g. short +er = shorter
tense
tells you when an action took place, in the past the present or the future.
apostrophe (contraction)
used to show where letters have missed out when two words have been shortened or joined together e.g. do not = don’t
(missing letter o)
apostrophe (posession)
used to show that something belongs to somebody or something e.g. Will’s jacket
comma
used to separate items in a list e.g. He took sunglasses, a picnic, a blue towel and sun cream to the beach.