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.
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!
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
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’
Text
T1.1 Choosing words from a bank to create a sentence
T1.2 Sequence sentences to form a short narrative (well-known/traditional stories)
Punctuation
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?
Assessment
End of Term 1
End of Term 2
End of Term 3
Word
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)
Sentence
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
