WRITING including SPELLING, GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION
By the end of Year 1 we are aiming for:
HANDWRITING
In Year 1 children will be taught to:
- sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly
- begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
- form capital letters
- form digits 0-9
- understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (ie letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these
SPELLING
In Year 1 children will be taught to:
- spell:
- words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
- common exception words
- the days of the week
- name the letters of the alphabet:
- naming the letters of the alphabet in order
- using letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings of the same sound
- add prefixes and suffixes:
- using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs
- using the prefix un–
- using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]
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apply simple spelling rules
- write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far
VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR and PUNCTUATION
In Year 1 children will be taught to:
- develop their understanding of the following concepts
- leaving spaces between words
- joining words and joining clauses using ‘and’
- beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
- using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’
- learning the grammar for year 1:
WRITING COMPOSITION
In Year 1 children will be taught to:
- write sentences by:
- saying out loud what they are going to write about
- composing a sentence orally before writing it
- sequencing sentences to form short narratives
- re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
- discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
- read their writing aloud, clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher
►Look what we are learning this term....
The genre we are writing this term are:
- a story - sequencing, character description and speech/thought bubbles
- a WANTED poster
- a descriptive piece
- instructions
- a diary entry