Grammar and Punctuation Program

Year 1 Castle Cove Public School 2014

Grammar and punctuation conventions are regularly reinforced during all formal and informal writing activities. Additionally, weekly grammar lessons take place in order to teach various concepts explicitly and thoroughly. Children will be working in ability-based literacy groups to undertake grammar and punctuation activities this term. Each teacher will ensure that all of the concepts listed below are taught during the term. Teachers will differentiate the learning of each concept in terms of difficulty, dependent upon the abilities of each student. OUTCOMES WS1.12 produces texts using the basic grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type. Uses adjectives to provide more information about nouns Uses pronoun references accurately Uses different types of verbs (action, thinking, seeing, feeling) in own writing Uses past tense relatively consistently in literary texts Uses relating verbs to describe and classify Uses most common punctuation marks e.g. spaces, capital and lower case letters, full stops, question marks, speech, exclamation marks Uses creative word play in the writing of literary texts Uses synonyms in own writing and discusses differences in meaning e.g. hurried, raced, rushed Usually uses capital letters at the beginning of sentences and for names Experiments with other punctuation

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TEACHING AND LEARNING FOCUS Revision: Nouns and verbs Nouns are people, places and things. Verbs are actions, states or occurrences. A sentence must contain a noun and a verb.

RESOURCES or ACTIVITIES *sort nouns and verbs *verb charades *noun charades http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm http://www.softschools.com/language_arts /grammar/noun/balloon_game/ http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

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Review

Revision: Using capital letters and *edit texts and put capitals and full stops full stops, and identifying sentences. *cut blocks of text into sentences then find the subject and Using capitals at the start of verb in each sentences and for names. http://www.sentenceplay.co.uk/SentenceDoctor.html Sentences need someone doing http://roythezebra.com/reading-games-sentencesomething; a subject and a verb. level.html (use Zeds Advanced games and Full Stop Advanced) Print this poster: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0qyqbKURGIbURTQUVETGlUNktPMzFfTjNEb2szdw/edit

Proper nouns and common nouns A common noun is a person place or thing, e.g. boy, city, ball. A proper noun is the actual name of a person or place, e.g. John, Budpest.

*sort proper nouns and common nouns *http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Commonand-Proper-Noun-Sort-965505 *Play a circle game; go around and each student completes the sentence by inserting a common and proper noun: a __________ called __________ e.g. a city called Sydney. Make a wall display with these sentences; students write the common noun in blue and the proper noun in red.

Speech marks, exclamation marks and question marks

Students make a comic strip with characters talking. This could be done on the ipads. They then transcribe this into paragraphs, using speech marks to indicate what was Speech marks or quotation marks are written in the bubbles. used to show when someone is talking. They can be single () or Explicitly teach content and the changes of inflection double (). related to the ! and ? marks. Poetry Exclamation marks are used instead of a full stop, usually to show strong feeling such as surprise, anger or joy. Question marks are used instead of a full stop, to mark the end of a question. An upward inflection is used especially on the last word of the question. Write interview questions for a particular person e.g. mum, Mrs Cope, etc. and actually have and record the interview. Children then transcribe the interview, using all appropriate punctuation.

Past tense verbs and plurals Adding d, ed, and irregular past tense verbs. Adding s, ies, and irregular plurals.

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/past-simple-irregularverbs-esl-grammar-interactive-activity-online/ Students pull an object or animal from the grab bag and must match it to its plural word which is already displayed. Students pull a verb from the grab bag and must match it to its past-tense version which is already displayed. Could be done in reverse. Games such as Memory, Go Fish, Snap could be played (see cards below).

Synonyms and enriching vocab Using different words makes writing and reading more interesting. As well, having and using a rich vocabulary increases brain capacity!

Discuss interesting language and introduce the concept of wow words. Give examples and have students think of synonyms. Jigsaw activity: have different stations with an A4 paper and a heading word e.g. dark. Students have 1 min to think of as many synonyms as they can, then rotate to the next word. Afterwards, discuss each group of words. A fun game for encouraging thinking: give students an animal and they must make an alliterative sentence about it, e.g. An Angry Alligator Ate An Avalanche. Using graduated paper or paint swatches, students are given a word and must think of synonyms for it. Create a funky display!

Pronouns: I, he, she, her, they, it, etc. Replacing the subject and object of a sentence with pronouns. Ensuring pronouns have a reference point, i.e. he looked at it who is he and what is it?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/pronouns/play/ http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/ grammar/pronoun/balloon_game/ Practise replacing subjects and objects in sentences with pronouns. Practise making sentences involving a given pronoun e.g. THEM. I have lots of friends and I like THEM. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/ joining_words/play/

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Connectives

There are many types of connectives. They are used to join sentences and Whole class game (warning, a little spooky) ideas. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/ spelling_grammar/sentences/play/ Using VCOP: Give students two sentences and the must join them, e.g. 1. And The camel ate cherries. The cherries were rotten. 2. But so then because when This could be a Points game, where each connective/group 3. If after while however also is worth a certain amount of points, and if they try to use besides more difficult ones and get them correct, they get more points. Revision Revise concepts with a Grammar Obstacle Course or Grammar-lympics.

catch see lick wash

caught saw licked washed

run buy smell sleep

ran bought smelt slept

think get blink make

thought got blinked made

write read eat come

wrote read ate came

jump throw play fly

jumped threw played flew

fish hug walk go

fished hugged walked went

use work fall grow

used worked fell grew

type clap tell live

typed clapped told lived

hear awaken feel dry

heard awoke felt dried

taste rise build cry

tasted rose built cried

duck cat pencil sheep

ducks cats pencils sheep

goose dog fish frog

geese dogs fish frogs

race box sock bee

races boxes socks bees

book fox tree baby

books foxes trees babies

fly pony ant dwarf

flies ponies ants dwarves

monkey dragon butterfly scarf

monkeys dragons butterflies scarves

hoof man foot house

hooves men feet houses

roof woman mouse boot

roofs women mice boots

tooth person lady city

teeth people ladies cities

child cherry family country

children cherries families countries

planet leaf story owl

planets leaves stories owls

dish knife shirt eye

dishes knives shirts eyes