Use appropriate adjectives and adverbs to give essential information
Show some variation in sentence openings
Use expanded noun phrases
Rehearse sentences orally and hold them in my head
Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
Use commas to separate items in a list
Use past and present tense correctly
Use subordinating clauses joined with: when, if, that, because
My Year 2 writing blocks….
Begin to use simple dictionaries and, with support, thesauruses
Know independently to use reading to check and support spelling
Evaluate writing with the teacher and other pupils
Make simple additions, revisions and corrections to writing by:
Proof-read to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation;
Break down spoken words into their sounds and represent these in writing, spelling many correctly;
Learn new ways of spelling sounds for which one or more spellings are already known; and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones.
Develop positive attitudes towards, and stamina for, writing, by writing for different purposes
Noun, noun phrase, adjective, adverb, verb, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, tense (past, present), apostrophe, comma
Using Grammar
Terminology
Know the main features of different genres
Use phrases drawn from story language to add interest, e.g. she couldn’t believe her eyes
Write familiar stories/about familiar characters including relevant details that keep the reader or listener interested.
Write stories in the style of a traditional tale, uses typical settings, characters and events
Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters
Begin to use some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when next to one another, are best left unjoined.
Form lower-case letters of the correct orientation and size relative to one another
Write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters
Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far
Add suffixes to spell longer words, including – ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
Know the difference in meaning between taught homophones and near-homophones e.g. there/their/they’re , quite/quiet
Use the possessive apostrophe (singular) e.g. the girl’s book
Spell more words with contracted forms where the apostrophe represents an omitted letter or letters
Spell common exception words
Use the suffixes -er, -est in adjectives and -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
Spell by segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly