1. St Mary’s Key Stage One English Evening
Wednesday 30th September

2. Aims
To give you an understanding of how we teach different aspects of Literacy in FS/KS1 at St Mary’s, including the teaching of Phonics, SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) and Guided Reading.
To give you an understanding of the Literacy scheme we follow throughout the school: ‘Power of Reading’.
To give you the opportunity to take part in some of the activities your children will be doing in school.

3. Key Stage One SPaG
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar taught both discretely and as part of Literacy lessons.
Spelling:
Year 1 continue to follow the RWInc. Programme, including ‘alien words’ and Handwriting (Phonics Screening Test meeting in the Spring Term)
Year 2 consolidate sounds then move on to spelling patterns and rules.
For example…..

4. How many words can you think of containing the digraph ‘ai’ in 30 seconds?

5. Year 2 Spelling cont. Compound words
Changing words from singular to plural
Changing words from present tense to past tense
Using syllables to support spelling.
Games/activities
For example…..

6. some board every time play where white one cup ground

7. How many words can you find within the word:
CELEBRATION

8. These words have been scrambled up! Can you unscramble them?
dgo
lpya
cubesea

9. KS1 Punctuation Taught during Literacy lessons.
Using texts to support.
Adding correct punctuation to texts
Playdough punctuation
Kung Fu punctuation

10. KS1 Grammar
More emphasis in the New Curriculum, separate test for SPaG in the End of KS1 SATs.
Adjectives, Nouns, Conjunctions, Verbs and Adverbs
Past and Present Tense
Singular and Plural forms
Statements, Commands and Exclamations
For example….

11. Yay there’s cake!
I have a cake.
Pass me the cake.

12. Power of Reading Focus on one quality text for a 3-4 week period.
Drama, reading aloud, retelling, writing in role, predicting, newspaper articles, recounts, instructions, information texts, poetry, extended writing, art, letter writing, persuasive writing.

13. Before: During: After: Exploring ideas Talk and discussion
Playing the story
Role-play
Retelling
Drawing
Mapping
Shared writing
During:
Shaping for purpose and audience
Response and editing partners
Talking about process
Reading own writing aloud
Commenting on each others work
Sharing ideas
Collaborative writing
After:
Evaluating and valuing
Talking about the process as a writer: child-teacher; child-child
Polishing
Support for spelling
Rewriting for a purpose
Celebrating achievement
Publishing
Book-making
Performing the writing for others to enjoy

14. His name is Bob, looking at the photo what else do we know
His name is Bob, looking at the photo what else do we know? We could write our questions down, draft and write a letter to Bob. Before even reading the book we’ve got some good quality writing which the children are interested in and enthused by. Other lessons/activities when reading this book: retelling the story, diary entry in role as Bob, instruction writing for rules on the moon, simple persuasive writing for going to the moon.

15. Thank you for coming! Any questions?