Download Spag Presentation - Sarisbury Infant School

What is SPAG?
•
•
•
•
End of key stage test
Broken into two sections
Spelling- worth 20 marks
Punctuation and Grammar- worth 20 marks
How do we prepare the children
for SPAG?
• SPAG and phonic sessions everyday for 30
mins
• Teachers recap a sound a day at the
beginning to maintain phonic standard
• Rest of the session spent teaching SPAG
• Multi sensory
• Embedded within English lessons- children
do not know they are learning SPAG!
What do we know about the spelling
test?
• Children will be tested on 20 words
• Year 2 have a spelling list that the government
has created- only year group in KS1
• We can make a guess it is going to include:
• Spelling a number to 20
• Day of the week
• Month of the year
• Common exception words
Punctuation
• Children will be expected to make the
sentence correct- adding capital letter, full
stop or adding question mark
• Tick the correct sentence
• Circle three words that need a capital letter
• Add in commas
• Which sentence needs an exclamation mark
Full stops and capital letters
A sentence is a group of words that make sense.
Every sentence should begin with a capital
letter.
Most sentences end with a full stop.
Monkeys live in tress.
Capital Letter
Full stop
Punctuation- Question Mark
• We ask questions to find out things
• When you write a sentence that is a question
you must put:
• Capital letter at the beginning
• A question mark at the end
Could you help me?
What time is it?
Why do balloons go pop?
Punctuation- Exclamation marks
• An exclamation mark shows that writer feels
strongly about something
I really hate winter!
Stop pinching me!
Look out!
What a lovely present!
Punctuation- Commas
• A comma tells us to pause. It is used to
separate items in a list
• Here are the fierce tigers, slow camels, stripy
zebras and tall giraffes.
• In a list we do not use a comma before the
word and.
Grammar- Adverbs
• Verb is a doing word- run, hop, skip, jump
• An adverb is a word that gives more meaning to a
verb
• Many adverbs tell us how something happened
The sun shone brightly
Brightly is the adverb. It tells us how the sun shone.
Many adverbs end in ly
Expanded Noun Phrases
• Expanded noun phrases add information to
nouns (naming words).
• Your child will know these as adjectives
• They make the writing more interesting
The spooky house on the hill
Sentences with different forms
Statements are sentences that tell someone
something and end with a full stop.
The boy stood up.
Questions are sentences that ask someone
something and end with a question mark.
Did the boy stand up?
Commands are sentences that order someone to
do something and end with an exclamation mark.
Stand up!
Subordinating and Coordinating
Conjunctions
• Conjunctions (used to be called connectives)
are joining words and main function to link
together two different parts of a sentence
• and/but/or are the three main coordinating
conjunctions
• Join two clauses which are grammatically
independent of each other and would make
sense alone
Coordinating Conjunctions
She’s already had two holidays this year. Now
she wants another one
She’s already had two holidays this year and
now she wants another one.
I had a terrible cold last week. I still went to
work.
I had a terrible cold last week, but I still went to
work.
• A subordinating conjunction joins a
subordinate clause to a main clause.
• Words like if, when, because, since, although
are subordinating conjunctions
• Subordinate clause are dependent on the
main clause in some way and do not stand on
their own
Subordinating Clause
If you feel thirsty or hungry, help yourself to
anything at all in the fridge and freezer.
I helped myself to an ice-cold beer and a pizza
from the freezer while they were away.