Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Year 4

Why SPaG? Life Skill for all writing Aids speech Helps reading & understanding Pressure from employers Year 6 test Greater emphasis in 2014 curriculum

Spelling Y4 Expectation

‘ Place the Apostrophe The boys cars had lots of wheels. The cars belonging to the boy had lots of wheels The boys’ cars had lots of wheels. The cars belonging to the boys had lots of wheels Year 3 expectation Year 4 expectation

Teaching Spelling in Year 4 Cold to Hot Spelling tests Cold test on Tuesday which is sent home. The spellings all follow the same rule, pattern or sometimes topic. Practice the spellings which they got wrong. Spellings on the blog if you loose them. Spelling investigations in class based on rule. Some children will receive extra support on these in school from Mrs Bye. Hot test on a Monday includes a mystery spelling (same pattern). This will come home for you to see progress.

Punctuation Y4 Expectation Full stops, capital letters, commas in lists, question marks and exclamation marks. These items are not taught in Year 4. The new curriculum puts them as Year 2 objectives! In Year 4 we will be: Revising punctuation from previous years. Apostrophes for plural possession (as discussed in the spelling section). Fully punctuated direct speech. Using commas after fronted adverbials.

Direct Speech Can you write these texts as direct speech? Use the toolkit to help you. “Hi, are you going to the park tonight?” Sam asked. “Yes.” I replied. “Meet you there?” he questioned. “See you at 4.” I told him.

Grammar Y4 Expectations Grammatical difference between plural and possessive ‘s’. Standard rather than spoken English (verb forms). Expanded noun phrases. Fronted adverbials. Paragraphs to organise ideas. Appropriate choice of noun or pronoun. PLUS everything from previous years!

Word Classification Noun – a thing - car Pronoun – another word for a thing – it Verb – doing word – to drive Adjective – describes a noun – shiny Adverb – describes the verb – quickly Preposition – explains where/when – along Conjunction – links clauses – until Determiner – introduces a noun - the The shiny car drives quickly along the road until it runs out of petrol.

Teaching Punctuation & Grammar in Y4 Explicit teaching linked to our writing topic – e.g. diaries. Implicit teaching through reading & writing across the curriculum. Questioning in Active Reading sessions Marking and feedback Buzz Words DIMS? (Does it make sense?)