Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Information Evening January 2015.

Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Information

EveningJanuary 2015

What does it mean?

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Learning Outcome for The Evening

• You as parents will develop your understanding of Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation

• You will gain knowledge from FS-Year 6• Develop understanding of how we teach

Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation to ensure progress

• Discover what you can do to support

your child’s learning

Before I go any Further…..

• We are more than aware that parents as well as children have busy lives

• We are not asking you to spend every spare moment doing Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation activities with your child

• But we would like for us to work together to support your child’s learning

What do we actually mean by Spelling, Grammar and

Punctuation?

Spelling

To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).

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Grammar• Grammar-the study of the way

words are used to make sentences-the body of rules imposed on a given language for speaking and writing it.

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Punctuation• The use of standard marks

and signs in writing and printing to separate words into sentences, clauses and phrases in order to clarify meaning.

Spelling –where does it all begin

• Believe it or not at home…..

• Recognising sounds and letter names

• Learning to write and spell their name

• Sharing books and pointing out familiar sounds

• Reading to them

• Talking to them

From FS to Y6• Letters and Sounds

• Phonics /Graphemes /Phonemes

• Blends/CVC words

• Key words/Phases

• Spelling rules and patterns

• Root words

• Tricky words

• Using these spellings in everyday writing

• Teaching of spelling/spelling test

Grammar• How many people have corrected their

child when they are talking?

• ‘innit’

• ‘bin the shop’

• ‘bin town’

• ‘frew’

• ‘gonna’

• ‘I seen it’

• ‘can I go toilet’

FS to Year 6

• It starts with learning how words can make a sentence

• Then using an adjective• Conjunction• Expanding a noun phrase• Add an adverb• Using the power of three• Similie• Varying length of sentence for meaning and effect• And more…………..

Punctuation FS-Y2

• Finger spaces

• Capital letter

• . ! ?

• Speech bubbles

• Commas to separate a list

• Apostrophes

• Direct speech and inverted commas

Punctuation Y3-Y6

• All from FS-Y2

• Colon

• Comma with adverbial phrase

• Inverted commas –direct speech

• Apostrophes to mark plural possession

• Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

• Semi-colon

Progression and Continuity

• What it looks like from FS-Year 6

• How do we get it to develop from Foundation Stage through to Year 6?

• What are our expectations?

• What does the teaching look like that enables the children to make progress?

READING IS CRUCIAL• Vocabulary

• Spellings

• Grammar

• Oracy

• Punctuation

• Discussion

• Children will be writing sentences that make sense, are punctuated appropriately and all words are spelt correctly.

• These sentences make up longer pieces of writing –see examples

IMPACT ON WRITING

What can you do???

• Encourage your child to read and discuss the text with them

• Reading through their homework with them• Correct spelling mistakes• Focus on key words/spellings for year group/sent home• Brush up on your own Spelling, Grammar and

Punctuation• Correct their spelling and discuss spelling patterns• Read through their writing with them and help to correct

grammar and punctuation• BE SUPPORTIVE!

Evaluation• On your way out please write on a

post it anything that you have gained or are going to try from our reading information and put it on the evaluation board.

• This will help us to evaluate if our evening has been useful….