<p>**Year 2 Spelling and Grammar (SPaG) lessons **</p> <ul> <li> <p>19 weeks of lesson plans, SMART Notebook presentations and resources.</p> </li> <li> <p>These could be taught as two lessons per week, or edited to suit the needs of your pupils.</p> </li> <li> <p>Excellent for SATs revision.</p> </li> <li> <p>Presentations have clear, visual examples to model to your class, and worksheets to match the content taught.</p> </li> <li> <p>These lessons were planned, using the National Curriculum guidelines, outlined below:</p> </li> </ul> <p>*Word Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by<br /> compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman]<br /> Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less<br /> (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in<br /> English Appendix 1)<br /> Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives and the use of –ly in<br /> Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs<br /> Sentence Subordination (using when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (using<br /> or, and, but)<br /> Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example,<br /> the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon]<br /> How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as<br /> a statement, question, exclamation or command</p> <p><em>Text Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense<br /> throughout writing<br /> Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to<br /> mark actions in progress [for example, she is drumming, he was<br /> shouting]<br /> Punctuation Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks<br /> to demarcate sentences<br /> Commas to separate items in a list<br /> Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark<br /> singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name]<br /> Terminology<br /> for pupils<br /> noun, noun phrase<br /> statement, question, exclamation, command<br /> compound, suffix<br /> adjective, adverb, verb<br /> tense (past, present)<br /> apostrophe, comma</em></p>