Do your pupils need to revisit grammar skills regularly?
This year 1 Grammar Slam resource (Set A) will give children the opportunity to revisit key phonics, word, sentence, text and punctuation skills from Appendix 2 of the English national curriculum. An opportunity to apply the skills in this Grammar Slam is included in the application task ‘The Nest’.
Presented as a PowerPoint, the activities can be displayed for the whole class to complete or discuss.
Content covered from English Appendix 2 in this resource:
Phonics: To use phonic knowledge to spell words – phase 4 CVCC words
Content covered from English Appendix 2:
Word: To add the suffix -ing where no change is needed to the root word
Sentence: to combine words to make sentences (orally)
Punctuation: to separate words with finger spaces
Terminology used from year 1: sentence, word
How could you use Grammar Slam?
Perfect for starters to English lessons to teach or revisit skills previously taught or for display on the board at the beginning of the day during registration, or at any point where there is 5 minutes to fill, to make productive use of learning time.
This could also be used by pupils in higher year groups to revise key terminology and skills taught in previous years.
National Curriculum program of study links for English:
Pupils should be taught to
- spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
- add prefixes and suffixes using –ing,
Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts :
- by leaving spaces between words
- the grammar for year 1 in English appendix 2