WEEK

TEACHING AND LEARNING FOCUS Revision: Nouns and verbs Nouns are people, places and things. Verbs are actions, states or occurrences. A sentence must contain a noun and a verb.

RESOURCES or ACTIVITIES

*sort nouns and verbs *verb charades *noun charades http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm http://www.softschools.com/language_arts /grammar/noun/balloon_game/ http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

Revision: Using capital letters and full stops, and identifying sentences. Using capitals at the start of sentences and for names. Sentences need someone doing something; a subject and a verb.

*edit texts and put capitals and full stops *cut blocks of text into sentences then find the subject and verb in each http://www.sentenceplay.co.uk/SentenceDoctor.html http://roythezebra.com/reading-games-sentencelevel.html (use Zeds Advanced games and Full Stop Advanced) Print this poster: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0qyqbKURGIbURTQUVETGlUNktPMzFfTjNEb2szdw/edit

Review

Proper nouns and common nouns A common noun is a person place or thing, e.g. boy, city, ball. A proper noun is the actual name of a person or place, e.g. John, Budpest.

*sort proper nouns and common nouns *http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Commonand-Proper-Noun-Sort-965505 *Play a circle game; go around and each student completes the sentence by inserting a common and proper noun: a __________ called __________ e.g. a city called Sydney. Make a wall display with these sentences; students write the common noun in blue and the proper noun in red.

Speech marks, exclamation marks and question marks Speech marks or quotation marks are used to show when someone is talking. They can be single () or double (). Exclamation marks are used instead of a full stop, usually to show strong feeling such as surprise, anger or joy. Question marks are used instead of a full stop, to mark the end of a question. An upward inflection is used especially on the last word of the question. Poetry

Students make a comic strip with characters talking. This could be done on the ipads. They then transcribe this into paragraphs, using speech marks to indicate what was written in the bubbles. Explicitly teach content and the changes of inflection related to the ! and ? marks. Write interview questions for a particular person e.g. mum, Mrs Cope, etc. and actually have and record the interview. Children then transcribe the interview, using all appropriate punctuation.

Past tense verbs and plurals Adding d, ed, and irregular past tense verbs. Adding s, ies, and irregular plurals.

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/past-simple-irregular-verbsesl-grammar-interactive-activity-online/ Students pull an object or animal from the grab bag and must match it to its plural word which is already displayed. Students pull a verb from the grab bag and must match it to its past-tense version which is already displayed. Could be done in reverse. Games such as Memory, Go Fish, Snap could be played (see cards below).

Synonyms and enriching vocab Using different words makes writing and reading more interesting. As well, having and using a rich vocabulary increases brain capacity!

Discuss interesting language and introduce the concept of wow words. Give examples and have students think of synonyms. Jigsaw activity: have different stations with an A4 paper and a heading word e.g. dark. Students have 1 min to think of as many synonyms as they can, then rotate to the next word. Afterwards, discuss each group of words. A fun game for encouraging thinking: give students an animal and they must make an alliterative sentence about it, e.g. An Angry Alligator Ate An Avalanche.

Using graduated paper or paint swatches, students are given a word and must think of synonyms for it. Create a funky display!

Pronouns: I, he, she, her, they, it, etc. Replacing the subject and object of a sentence with pronouns. Ensuring pronouns have a reference point, i.e. he looked at it who is he and what is it?! Description

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/pronouns/play/ http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/ grammar/pronoun/balloon_game/ Practise replacing subjects and objects in sentences with pronouns. Practise making sentences involving a given pronoun e.g. THEM. I have lots of friends and I like THEM.

Connectives

There are many types of connectives. They are used to Whole class game (warning, a little spooky) join sentences and ideas. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/ spelling_grammar/sentences/play/ Using VCOP: Give students two sentences and the must join them, e.g. 1. And The camel ate cherries. The cherries were rotten. 2. But so then because This could be a Points game, where each connective/group when is worth a certain amount of points, and if they try to use 3. If after while however more difficult ones and get them correct, they get more also besides points. Revision Revise concepts with a Grammar Obstacle Course or Grammar-lympics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/ joining_words/play/