Year 2 (SPaG) Lesson Plans, SMART Notebook Presentations & Resources - National Curriculum Coverage

**Year 2 Spelling and Grammar (SPaG) lessons **

• 19 weeks of lesson plans, SMART Notebook presentations and resources.

• These could be taught as two lessons per week, or edited to suit the needs of your pupils.

• Excellent for SATs revision.

• Presentations have clear, visual examples to model to your class, and worksheets to match the content taught.

• These lessons were planned, using the National Curriculum guidelines, outlined below:

*Word Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by
compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman]
Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less
(A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in
English Appendix 1)
Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives and the use of –ly in
Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs
Sentence Subordination (using when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (using
or, and, but)
Expanded noun phrases for description and specification [for example,
the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon]
How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as
a statement, question, exclamation or command

Text Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense
throughout writing
Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to
mark actions in progress [for example, she is drumming, he was
shouting]
Punctuation Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
to demarcate sentences
Commas to separate items in a list
Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark
singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name]
Terminology
for pupils
noun, noun phrase
statement, question, exclamation, command
compound, suffix
adjective, adverb, verb
tense (past, present)
apostrophe, comma