1. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Year 4

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

3. Spelling Y4 Expectation

4. ‘ 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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!

9. 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.

10. 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?)