SPaG: text-based activities. Presentation, worksheets, dictation, writing task.

The language level of this resource makes it suitable for able KS2 classes and KS3. It comprises an interactive presentation based on a specially written text themed on New Year resolutions. The text and presentation target the following SPaG areas:

SPELLING

• -whose/who’s, loose/lose, choose/chose
• silent g (gnome, consign, diaphragm )

PUNCTUATION

• capital letters for festivals and religions
• ellipsis
• commas
• brackets

GRAMMAR

• simple, compound and complex sentences
• elision of '‘that’ and ‘whom’ in some complex sentences

Two slides cover how structure can be manipulated to improve writing. There is an example of how the first paragraph of my New Year text moved from simple to compound and then complex sentences, and finally to ‘hidden’ complex sentences.

Plenty of written follow-up work is provided:

SPELLING CROSSWORD (silent g)
PUNCTUATION WORKSHEET (the unit text (stripped of commas and capital letters)
DICTATION : this is a supported activity, where pupils fill the gaps in the text. More able pupils should be expected to write the whole text without the help of the worksheet.
TEST (worth 30 marks. The final question is a writing assignment.)

The pack would be good to use over a whole week , using the spelling, punctuation and grammar sections over consecutive days (possibly as lesson starters), with the dictation on the fourth lesson, and the test taking up the whole of the final session.

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