Download Spelling, Reading and Grammar Workshop - 29th September

Year 2 Reading, GPS and
Handwriting Evening
Mrs Keogh and Mr Herring
New Curriculum
 Second year of being assessed on new
curriculum for year 2
 Will include a compulsory Spelling,
Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) test in
May (if government does not accidentally
leak it again!)
Reading – word reading
 Pupils should be taught to:
 Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills to decode
words until reading is fluent
 Read accurately by blending the sounds in words
 Read accurately words containing two or more syllables
 Read words containing common suffixes
 Read further common exception words (high frequency
words)
 Read most words quickly and accurately without
sounding (high frequency words)
 Read books aloud, sounding out without hesitation
 Re-read books to build up fluency and confidence
Reading – comprehension
 Information retrieval
 Inference
 Book talk - author’s intention, language used for effect,
layout
 Creative Questioning
 Themes and Conventions
 Bug Club
Spelling
 Learn spelling rules
 Plurals – add s, es (if word ends in s, x, z), take of the y
and add ies
 Doubling consonant before adding suffix eg jogging,
swapping, travelling
 -ge and –dge (badge, age)
 Rule – short vowel sounds are followed by ‘dge’ eg badge,
dodge, judge; long vowel sounds are followed by ‘ge’ eg
cage, age, huge
 J before ‘a’, ‘o’, ‘u’ eg jam, jog, junction
 G ‘before’ ‘e’ , ‘i’, ‘y’ eg gem, giraffe, gym
 Homophones, contracted forms, possessive apostrophe
Grammar
 Prefix un Suffix –er, -s and –es (plurals), -est, -ed, -ing, -ly, ment, -less, -ful
 Need to know the words adjective, adverb, verb, tense
(past and present), apostrophe, comma, compound,
suffix, noun, noun phrase, statement, question,
exclamation, command, subordinate clause
Word Classes
 Every word belongs to a word class which summarises the
ways in which it can be used in grammar. The major word
classes for English are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb,
preposition, determiner, pronoun, conjunction. Word classes
are sometimes called ‘parts of speech’.
 Adjective
Describing word before noun or after a verb
 Noun
people, places or things
 Verb
often an action, can have a tense
 Adverb
time, manner (often ending ‘ly) or place
 Conjunction
Links two words or phrases together
Colour Coding
 The old man quickly ran to the shop because he needed
some milk.
Handwriting
 At St John’s we use the Nelson handwriting script. All
letters start from the top except d and e. These two
letters start from the middle. Capital letters can start
from anywhere but most people find it convenient to
start from the top. Capital letters should be the same
height as ascenders. Ascenders include: b, d, f, h, k, l.
The letter ‘t’ is not as high as an ascender. It is about
three quarters as high. The letters f, g, j, p, q, y are
descenders. The technical name for the tail that goes
below the line is a ‘flourish’. The cross stroke of the ‘t’
and ‘f’ should be the same height as the other lower
case letters.
 Handwriting joins
 Letters that end at the top are joined horizontally: f, o, r,
t, v, w, x
 Letters that end at the bottom are joined diagonally: a,
c, d, e, h, i, k, l, m, n, u
 Letters that are not joined include: b, g, j, p, s, q, y, z
 These are not joined because they end in the opposite
direction (left) to the direction of writing (right)
 In general, children who feel good about their
handwriting are far more motivated to write. Reluctant
writers often have poor handwriting and often have a
poor self-image of themselves as writers. Children who
have neat cursive writing are often better at spelling
than those with poor handwriting or those who print.
Underachievement in any curriculum area that involves
writing can often be the result of poor handwriting.