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KS2 English Parent Workshop January 2015

KS2 English Parent Workshop January 2015. Agenda English and the 2014 Curriculum How to help your children at home How we teach SPaG Sample questions

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KS2 EnglishParent

WorkshopJanuary 2015

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Agenda

• English and the 2014 Curriculum• How to help your children at home• How we teach SPaG• Sample questions from the 2016

SPaG test• Glossary of terms

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Aims• Enable you to understand the changes

occurring in English due to the new curriculum

• Provide you with a greater understanding of how English is taught in school and progression of spelling, punctuation and grammar through Key Stage 2.

• Enable you to see the types of different questions children will be asked to do by the end of Year 6.

• Help you understand how you can help your child at home.

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Key Changes• Stronger emphasis on vocabulary

development, grammar, punctuation and spelling (for example, the use of commas and apostrophes will be taught in KS1)

• Handwriting (not currently assessed under the national curriculum) is expected to be fluent, legible and speedy

• Spoken English has a greater emphasis, with children to be taught debating and presenting skills.

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The New Curriculum: Reading

In reading, the curriculum will require:• Discussion of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference

books or textbooks• The preparation of poems and play scripts to read out loud• The need to recognise different forms of poetry• An emphasis on close textual reading and understanding,

including literary and linguistic devices, and making inferences about a text

• The need to increase familiarity with a wide range of books• The need to read whole texts• Less reference to drama• A shift from word reading to reading comprehension• Greater emphasis on reading for pleasure• A focus on applying own knowledge to digest new words and

comprehend texts• Pupils to make comparisons between texts

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Reading with your child

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The New Curriculum: Writing

• In writing, the curriculum will require:• An increased focus on developing

and improving handwriting• A greater number of specific

grammatical structures with which pupils will become familiar

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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)

Year 3• To express time, place and cause using conjunctions

(e.g. when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of)

• To introduce paragraphs as a way to group related material

• To use headings and subheadings to aid presentation

• To use the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past

Vocabulary:

adverb, preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause, subordinate clause, direct

speech, consonant, letter, vowel, inverted commas

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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Year 4• To use noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

• To use fronted adverbials

• To use paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme • To use the appropriate choice of the pronoun or noun

within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition.

 • To use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate

direct speech.  • To use apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession.  • To use commas after fronted adverbials.

Vocabulary:

determiner, pronoun,

possessive pronoun, adverbial

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Spelling , Punctuation and Grammar:

Year 5• To use relative clauses beginning with, who, which, where, when, whose, that or an omitted relative pronoun

 • To indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal

verbs • To use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph • To link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time,

place and number or tense choices • To use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate

parenthesis  • To use commas to avoid ambiguity and to clarify

meaning

Vocabulary

modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis, bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity

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Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar:

Year 6 (from 2016)• To use the passive to affect the presentation of information within a sentence

 • To know the difference between structures typical of informal speech

and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing or the use of subjunctive forms

 • To link ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive

devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections and ellipsis

 • To use layout devices – headings, subheadings, colons, bullets, tables • To use the semi-colon, colon and dash to mark the boundary between

independent clauses • To use the colon to introduce a list and use of semi-colons within

lists • To use bullet points to list information. To use hyphens to avoid

ambiguity.

Vocabularysubject, object, active,

passive, synonym, antonym, ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-

colon, bullet points

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How we teach SPaG

• Discretely, for one lesson out of 5 English lessons each week

• As a part of an English lesson or as a starter/plenary activity

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Questions from the sample SPaG test for

2016

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Let’s eat, Grandma. 

Let’s eat Grandma.

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Glossary of Terms