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Agenda
 English and the 2014 Curriculum
 How we teach SPaG
 Sample questions from the 2016 SPaG test
 How to help your children at home
Our Aims for Today:
 Enable you to understand the changes that
occurred in English due to the new curriculum in
2014
 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 curriculum will requires:
 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 requires:
 Pupils to learn to write numbers 1 to 9
‘Frequent and discrete, direct’ teaching
 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
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – Yr1
 To leave spaces between words
 Recognise capital letters and full stops when reading and name
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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
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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
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Yr 2
 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
 To use apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to
mark singular possession in nouns.
 To use commas to separate items in a list
 Selecting correct punctuation to end a sentence. (!...?.)
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
them to sound out and blend words.
 Ask lots of questions and make predictions. Questioning
them on the use of punctuation, what a word means, what
type of word it is.
 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).