1. Key Stage One
Spelling and Grammar

2. Reception Where the children Have come from …
Mark making and early writing
Confidence to ‘have a go’
Phonic segmenting to spell words
Alongside tricky words
Capital Letters for Name
Use of complete sentences
Awareness of capital letters at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end of a complete sentence
Handwriting – correct letter formation

3. Year One Phonic spelling containing 40+ phonemes
Terminology
Letter, Capital Letter
Word, singular, plural
Sentence
Punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark
Year One
Phonic spelling containing 40+ phonemes
Common exception words and days of the week
Continuation of tricky words
Prefixes and suffixes – un, s, es, ing, ed, er and est when no change is needed – root word needs to be correctly spelt
Correct formation, handwriting families, we begin to teach joined script
Capital letter, full stop exclamation mark, question mark
Using and to join words and clauses
Capital letter for ‘proper nouns’ and for pronoun I
Year One Spelling Appendix 1

4. Year Two
Terminology
Noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past and present), apostrophe, comma
Segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing with correct grapheme
Common homophones and near homophone
Common exception words
Contracted forms
Possessive apostrophe
suffixes to spell longer words, including - ment, ness, ful, less and ly
Correct formation, handwriting families, we begin to teach joined script
Capital letter, full stop exclamation mark, question mark, commas in list, apostrophes for contraction and possession
Different types of sentence
Expanded noun phrase
Present and past tense consistently
Subordination (when, if, because, that) and coordination (BOYS) when joining clauses
Function and types of words, Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Year two Spelling Appendix 1

5. Useful Links
england-english-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england- english-programmes-of-study

6. Common Exception words

7. Ways to practise spelling
Reading