Grammar and Text – Y2
Plan : Recounts
Required texts:
Diary Writing – Diary
of a Wimpy Kid
Fiction
Plan : Stories in familiar settings
Required texts:
Finding Nemo – first day at school.
Lost and Found
AUTUMN
.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use subordination
and co-ordination
writing Use ‘when’,
‘because’, ‘if’, ‘where’
etc. to create
subordinate clauses.
Sentences with two
main clauses or with
subordinate clauses .
Learn how to use
punctuation correctly,
including capital
letters, full stops,
question or
exclamation marks.
2. Use conjunctions
‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ to join
sentences
3. Use grammatical
terminology
1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly,
including capital letters, full stops, question
or exclamation marks
2. Learn how to use sentences with
different forms: statement, question,
exclamation, command.
Non-fiction
Plan :Explanations and instructions
Required texts:
Crawford the cat – brushing teeth
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Ca
tegory.aspx?CategoryID=4697
Grammar focus:
Poetry
Plan : Songs and repetitive Plan : Favourite
poems
poems
Required texts:
Required texts:
1. Learn how to use past and present
tense correctly including the progressive
form
2. Learn how to use familiar and new
punctuation
3. Demarcate sentences using capital
letters, full stops, question or
exclamation marks.
All about me
Plan : Postcards & Letters
Required texts:
Lost and Found
Jaime and His Magic torch
2. Use and understand
grammar terminology
Grammar focus:
1. Learn how to use punctuation
correctly, including capital letters, full
stops, question or exclamation marks
2. Learn how to use sentences with
different forms: statement, question,
exclamation, command.
Here is the nose that smelled
something sweet – Clyde
Watson
About Ears by Vivian Gouled
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun
phrases to describe and
specify, e.g. adjectives to
describe nouns
Grammar focus:
1. Use a variety of
end of sentence
punctuation.
2. Use capital letters
for the start of lines
in poems.
3. Begin to use
commas correctly.
SPRING
Fiction
Plan: Traditional tales from a variety
of cultures
Required texts:
Jack and the Beanstalk
Zahra (Literacy shed)
Grammar focus:
Non-fiction
Plan :Explanations and instructions
Required texts:
How to Train a Dragon
Poppy’s Planet by Russ Brown
Wombling Free DVD
Grammar focus:
1. Co-ordination: use conjunctions (and, or,
but) to join simple sentences
2. Learn how to use punctuation correctly,
including capital letters, full stops, question
or exclamation marks
3. Learn how to use sentences with
different forms: statement, question,
exclamation, command.
4. Use ‘when’, ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘where’ etc. to
create subordinate clauses.
1. Learn how to use past and present
tense correctly including the progressive
form
2. Learn how to use familiar and new
punctuation
3. Demarcate sentences using capital
letters, full stops, question or
exclamation marks.
Plan : Quest and adventure stories
Required texts:
Jack and the beanstalk app
http://nosycrow.com/blog/familiaritywith-fairy-tales-using-jack-and-thebeanstalk-in-ks1
Grammar focus:
1. Identify and use sentences with different
forms
2. Use and distinguish past and present
tense
3. Learn how to use familiar and new
punctuation
Plan: Non – chronological reports
Required texts:
Prince of Eqypt
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun phrases to
describe and specify, e.g. adjectives to
describe nouns
2. Learn how to use punctuation
correctly, incl. capital letters, full stops,
question or exclamation marks
3. Learn how to use sentences with
different forms: statement, question,
exclamation, command.
Poetry
Plan : Humorous poems
Required texts:
Bag of Beans
http://theplayhouse.org.uk
/bagofbeans/category/dra
ma-and-storyideas/poetry-activities/
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun
phrases to describe and
specify, e.g. adjectives to
describe nouns
2. Use and understand
grammar terminology
SUMMER
Fiction
Plan : Stories by the same author:
Required texts:
Charlie and the chocolate factory
The Twits
Matilda
Bigger than Alex ( Literacy shed)/
George’s Marvellous medicine
Grammar focus:
1. Use past tense consistently
2. Use subordination and co-ordination
writing sentences with two main clauses or
with subordinate clauses
3. Use expanded noun phrases
4. Use familiar and new punctuation
correctly
Non-fiction
Plan: Non – chronological reports
Required texts:
Caterpillar shoes
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun phrases to
describe and specify, e.g. adjectives to
describe nouns
2. Learn how to use punctuation
correctly, incl. capital letters, full stops,
question or exclamation marks
3. Learn how to use sentences with
different forms: statement, question,
exclamation, command.
Poetry
Plan : Really looking!
Poems about animals
Required texts:
Animal Poems
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun
phrases in writing
descriptions
2. Use familiar and new
punctuation correctly