Key Stage One Spelling and Grammar

Reception Where the children Have come from … Mark making and early writing Confidence to ‘have a go’ Phonic segmenting to spell words Alongside tricky words Capital Letters for Name Use of complete sentences Awareness of capital letters at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end of a complete sentence Handwriting – correct letter formation

Year One Phonic spelling containing 40+ phonemes Terminology Letter, Capital Letter Word, singular, plural Sentence Punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark Year One Phonic spelling containing 40+ phonemes Common exception words and days of the week Continuation of tricky words Prefixes and suffixes – un, s, es, ing, ed, er and est when no change is needed – root word needs to be correctly spelt Correct formation, handwriting families, we begin to teach joined script Capital letter, full stop exclamation mark, question mark Using and to join words and clauses Capital letter for ‘proper nouns’ and for pronoun I Year One Spelling Appendix 1

Year Two Terminology Noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past and present), apostrophe, comma Segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing with correct grapheme Common homophones and near homophone Common exception words Contracted forms Possessive apostrophe suffixes to spell longer words, including - ment, ness, ful, less and ly Correct formation, handwriting families, we begin to teach joined script Capital letter, full stop exclamation mark, question mark, commas in list, apostrophes for contraction and possession Different types of sentence Expanded noun phrase Present and past tense consistently Subordination (when, if, because, that) and coordination (BOYS) when joining clauses Function and types of words, Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs Year two Spelling Appendix 1

Useful Links https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in- england-english-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england- english-programmes-of-study https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/ http://www.pobble365.com/

Common Exception words

Ways to practise spelling Reading