SPELLING, PUNCTUATION & GRAMMAR (SPAG)
Our grammar curriculum covers all of the English National Curriculum expectations for spelling, punctuation and grammar
Each year group has small step learning episodes covering all key areas of the grammar, punctuation and spelling curriculum: Word, Text, Sentence and Punctuation. Each small step is linked to a National Curriculum statement.
Editable PowerPoints
Our scheme is made up of editable PowerPoint teaching slides and digital quizzes.
Each teaching slide is a learning episode which can be used to demonstrate new grammatical knowledge or which can be used to consolidate, revisit or refresh the grammatical concepts which have been taught through contextualised grammar lessons.
Each learning episode is made of editable teaching slides on PowerPoint, which means that the content can be adapted by the teacher to suit their cohort. The teaching slides are easy to follow, interactive and promote discussion.
Gamified, self-marking question sets (or quizzes)
Each small step in the curriculum also has a Question Set (quiz) which can be assigned for online practise of the grammatical concept or converted into PDF format for a more traditional paper-based activity.
When played online, our question sets are self-marking as well as allowing children to earn points and honey pots to spend on their avatars, just like the other Spelling Shed and MathShed games!
SPaG Overview
- W1.1 Identify and define nouns
- W1.2 Add -s when there is more than one noun
- W1.3 add -es when there is more than one noun
- W1.4 Choosing -s or -es where appropriate
- W2.1 Identify and define verbs
- W2.2 Sort verbs and nouns
- W2.3 Add -ing to a verb
- W2.4 Add -ed to a verb
- W2.5 Select the correct verb for the sentence based on its suffix
- W2.6 Add -er and -est to regular adjectives
- W3.1 Define prefix
- W3.2 Understand antonyms
- W3.3 Identify and sort verbs and adjectives
- W3.4 Add the prefix un- to create antonyms
- W3.5 Choose the correct verb or adjective for an image/sentence
- S1.1 Write a simple sentence starting with a noun/proper noun
- S1.2 Write a simple sentence using the personal pronoun ‘I’
- S1.3 Finish each sentence with a full stop
- S2.1 Join two simple sentences using ‘and’
- T1.1 Choosing words from a bank to create a sentence
- T1.2 Sequence sentences to form a short narrative (well-known/traditional stories)
- P1.1 Write a simple sentence with finger spaces between words
- P2.1 Sort common and proper nouns
- P2.2 Add capital letters to proper nouns in isolation and in a sentence
- P2.3 Sort question words who, which, where, why, when.
- P2.4 Orally ask questions using question words
- P2.5 Add question marks to questions
- P2.6 Introduce exclamation phrases
- P2.7 Add an exclamation mark, question mark or full stop to a range of sentences
- P3.1 Sort common and proper nouns
- P3.2 Adding capital letters to months and days of the week
- P3.3 Add capital letters to proper nouns in isolation and in a sentence
- P3.4 Me or I?
- W1.1 Identify and sort nouns
- W1.2 Manipulating verbs and nouns
- W1.3-W1.4 Identify and sort nouns and adjectives
- W1.5-W1.8 Making and using adjectives with the suffix -ness
- W1.9 Join two words from images to make a new compound word
- W1.10-W1.11 Constructing compound words
- W1.12 Identify compound nouns from a list
- W1.13-W1.15 Creating and using compounds nouns
- W2.1 Using the suffixes -ful, -ness, -ly, -ment, -less
- W2.2 Replacing a 'y' in a root word with an 'i' to form a new word
- W2.3 Sort compound words or words with a suffix
- W3.1a-W3.1d Using the suffixes -er and -est to turn adjectives into adverbs
- W3.1e Using the suffixes -er and -est when the root word ends in -y with a consonant before it then it is replaced with ‘i’ (but only when the root word has more than one syllable)
- S1.1 Identify, define and sort nouns
- S1.2 Identify noun phrase as determiner/noun
- S1.3 Explore the use of adjectives as a pre-modifier (expansion before the noun)
- S1.4 Create sentences with expanded noun phrases from word banks
- S1.5 Explore post-modifiers
- S2.1 Identify a sentence (independent clause)
- S2.2 Revise joining sentences using ‘and'
- S2.3 Explore coordinating conjunctions including the pattern: clause/conjunction/clause
- S2.4 Explore subordinating conjunctions (when, if, that, because)
- S2.5 Using the correct conjunctions in sentences
- S3.1 Explore statements, questions, exclamations and commands
- S3.2 Sort sentences based on types (statement, question, exclamation or command)
- S3.3 Add punctuation ! ? or . to sentences
- S3.4 Write own sentences from a prompt (image)
- T1.1 Recognise and identify verbs, and sort verbs and nouns
- T1.2 Explore phrases simple past and simple present tense
- T1.3 Explore examples of the regular past tense
- T1.4 Identify past or identify present tense sentences from examples
- T1.5 Repeat all T1 steps with simple irregular examples
- T1.6 Repeat all T1 steps above mixing regular and irregular examples
- T2.1 Convert root verb to progressive form
- T2.2 Explore present progressive form
- T2.3 Explore present progressive negative forms
- T2.4 Explore the past progressive form
- T2.5 Explore the past progressive negative forms
- P1 Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
- P2.1 Explore commas for lists
- P2.2 Add commas to lists from given items
- P2.3 Identify and correct list sentences
- P2.4 Create own sentences using commas to separate items in a list
- P3.1 Use an apostrophe where letters are missing or omitted in spelling
- P3.2 Using apostrophes to mark singular possession in nouns
- P3.3 Identifying and sorting uses of apostrophes for contraction and possession
- 2016 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2016-inspired KS1 Question Set A
- 2016 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2016-inspired KS1 Question Set B
- 2017 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2017-inspired KS1 Question Set A
- 2017 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2017-inspired KS1 Question Set B
- 2018 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2018-inspired KS1 Question Set A
- 2018 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2018-inspired KS1 Question Set B
- 2019 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2019-inspired KS1 Question Set A
- 2019 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2019-inspired KS1 Question Set B
- Stage 2 End of Term 1
- Stage 2 End of Term 2
- Stage 2 End of Term 3
- W.1.1 Identify and sort nouns
- W1.2 Introduce the term ‘prefix’
- W1.3 Prefix un- meaning ‘not’
- W1.4 Introduce and sort prefixes
- W1.5 Choose the correct word for the sentence gap
- W1.6 Which of these words matches the definition?
- W1.7 Identify a word with a prefix in a sentence
- W1.8 Write own sentence using a given word with a prefix
- W2.1 Revise/introduce terms and definitions of vowel and consonant
- W2.2 Choose correct a/an in a sentence
- W3.1 Identify and sort prefixes/suffixes/root words
- W3.2 Add an appropriate prefix or suffix to each root word
- S1.1 Revise coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- S1.2 Identify, define and use prepositions
- S1.3 Identify and sort conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
- S1.4 Add an appropriate conjunction/adverb/prepositions to sentences
- T1.1 Read through a text and split into paragraphs
- T1.2 Read through short passages and rearrange into correct order
- T2.1 Select appropriate headings for paragraphs
- T3.1 Identify and sort simple past and simple present tense
- T3.2 Introduce the present perfect
- T3.3 Select the correct auxiliary verb has/have for each sentence
- T3.4 Add a verb in the correct form to a sentence
- T3.5 Add an irregular verb in the correct form to a sentence
- T3.6 Correct sentences with irregular verbs written as if they were regular verbs
- T3.7 Identify and sort sentences with present form or simple past
- T3.8 Change sentences from simple past to past perfect form
- T3.9 Rearrange given words to create a sentence
- P1.1 Identify what is being said in image/film/speech bubbles
- P1.2 Punctuate spoken sentences
- P1.3 Identify and sort synonyms for said
- P1.4 Rearrange sentence fragments to create a grammatically accurate sentence
- P1.5 Add all punctuation to a given sentence including speech
- P1.6 Identify which speech sentences are constructed correctly/incorrectly
- W1.1 Identify and sort nouns
- W1.2 Add -s, add -es to words
- W1.3 Revise and extend Stage 2 P3.1-7
- W1.4 Sort possessive and plural words ending in -s
- W1.5 Choose sentences with correctly spelled words
- W1.6 Edit text that has a range of plural and possessive ’s’ words
- W1.7 Introduce use of apostrophe after a plural
- W2.1 Introduce inflections of the verb ‘to be’ using standard English
- W2.2 Complete similar activities looking at local non-standard terms
- S1.1 Identify and sort adjective/noun/prepositional phrase
- S1.2 Add adjectives before one noun
- S1.3 Identify the prepositional phrase in a sentence
- S1.4 Identify determiners in a sentence
- S1.5 Expand sentences using adjectives and prepositional phrases
- S2.1 Revise and extend Stage 3 S1
- S2.2 Identify adverbials
- S2.3 Select the appropriate adverbial for a sentence
- S2.4a and P1 Rearrange sentences so that the adverbial is at the front
- S2.4b and P1 Choose the appropriate adverbial to front a sentence
- S2.5 Punctuate sentences with fronted adverbials correctly
- T1.1 Sort sentences into paragraphs around the TiPToP themes
- T1.2 Order paragraphs appropriately
- T2.1 Revise noun types from previous Stages
- T2.2 Identify and sort types of nouns
- T2.3 Identify and sort nouns and pronouns
- T2.4 Identify and sort personal and possessive pronouns
- T2.5 Identify sentences from the description
- T2.6 Find and correct errors in a sentence
- P2.1 Revise Stage 3 P1
- P2.2 Identify correctly placed inverted commas
- P2.3 Introduce comma after reporting clause
- P2.4a Add punctuation marks to sentences including inverted commas
- P2.4b Punctuate paragraphs including direct speech
- P3.1 Revise Stage 2 P3.3-P3.6
- P3.2 Apostrophes to mark plural possession
- P3.3 Apostrophes to mark plural possession, including irregular plurals
- W1.1 Identify four word classes – adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs
- W1.2 Identify and sort word classes – conjunctions, determiners, prepositions
- W1.3 Match noun and adjectives to suffixes
- W1.4a Identify verbs that have been made by converting a noun or an adjective in sentences/paragraphs
- W1.4b Match root adjective/noun and apply a suffix e.g. memory + ise = memorise
- W2.1 Introduce prefixes
- S1.1 Revise the terms personal and possessive pronoun
- S1.2 Introduce relative pronouns
- S2.1 Introduce modal verbs (might, should will, must)
- S2.2a Identify, sort and order modal verbs in terms of probability
- S2.2b Create a sentence using a modal verb
- S2.3 Introduce adverbs of possibility
- T1.1 Identify and define cohesive features
- T1.2 Identify and sort adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns
- T1.3 Improve cohesion by adding cohesive devices from selection into simple paragraphs
- T2.1 Identify and sort adverbials of time, place and number
- T2.2 Add appropriate adverbials from selection into missing word sentences/paragraphs
- T2.3 Improve paragraphs/texts by adding in appropriate adverbials from selection
- P1.1 Brackets to indicate parenthesis
- P1.2 Dashes to indicate parenthesis
- P1.3 Commas to indicate parenthesis
- P1.4 Brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis
- P2.1 Identify an extra clause at the opening of a sentence
- P2.2a Identify a clause or phrase that is embedded within the sentence, often relative but not always
- P2.2b Assemble jumbled sentences
- P2.2c Identify correct and incorrect usage of commas
- P2.3 Revise Stage 2 P2.3, 2.4, 2.5
- P2.4 Using commas for lists and within list sentences
- P2.5 Punctuate sentences that represent a range of comma usage
- W1.1 Introduce formal and informal language
- W1.2 Edit poor examples of formal language to make them more appropriate
- W2.1a-W2.1b Identify antonyms and synonyms from lists of words
- W2.1c-W2.1d Identify and match synonyms in different contexts
- S1.1a-S1.1b Explore active and passive voice
- S1.1c-S1.1e Make active and passive voice sentences
- S1.1f-S1.1g Rearrange and write active and passive voice sentences
- S2.1a-g Further explore the use of formal and informal language
- S2.1h
- S2.2 Introduce the subjunctive form
- S2.3 Introduce the use of question tags
- T1.1 Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices
- T2.1 Layout devices
- P1.1 Explore the three punctuation marks - semicolon, colon and dashes
- P1.2 Explore independent clauses
- P1.3a Choose the correct punctuation to join two clauses
- P1.3b Add a colon into a sentence in the appropriate place
- P1.3c Add a semicolon into a sentence in the appropriate place
- P1.3d Add a dash into a sentence in the appropriate place
- P1.3a-P1.3e Mixed colon and semicolon review quiz
- P2.1 Using colons and semicolons for lists and list sentences
- P2.2 Create list sentences
- P3.1 Punctuation of bullet points to list information
- P4.1 Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
- First half of 2016 SATs Paper Question Set - better names than this though! -> 2016-inspired KS2 Question Set A
- Second half of 2016 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2016-inspired KS2 Question Set B
- First half of 2017 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2017-inspired KS2 Question Set A
- Second half of 2017 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2017-inspired KS2 Question Set B
- First half of 2018 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2018-inspired KS2 Question Set A
- Second half of 2018 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2018-inspired KS2 Question Set B
- First half of 2019 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2019-inspired KS2 Question Set A
- Second half of 2019 SATs Paper Question Set -> 2019-inspired KS2 Question Set B
- Stage 6 End of Term 1
- Stage 6 End of Term 2
- Stage 6 End of Term 3
