SPaG - A Great Grammar Game for Year 3

This resource contains:
A PowerPoint lesson explaining the game in detail and including a video clip message from Hetti
Teachers’ notes explaining how to play the game and giving links to the National Curriculum
A 5x4 grid to photocopy for the children

In this enjoyable and creative game players meet – or possibly re-meet - Hetti, a smart and friendly alien living on the far off planet of SPaG.

The game is wholly about teaching, rather than testing the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar demands for Y3 children as set out in the most recent National Curriculum for English.

The precise elements the game covers are:
forming nouns using prefixes
choosing a or an before the next word
expressing time using conjunctions.

In playing this version of the Great Grammar Game, children will also be revisiting and revising their SPaG knowledge from previous years. Like all other versions of the game it can be played more than once, either in small groups of 5 or more, or by a whole class.

The National Curriculum insists that building grammatical knowledge is best achieved through a focus on grammar within the teaching of reading, writing and speaking. This is exactly how this activity is designed to work.

Money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a children’s charity called MedEquip4Kids.