SPaG and extended writing
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With time at a premium for the busy classroom teacher, finding opportunities for extended writing tasks while still meeting the SPaG requirements of the National Curriculum can be a challenge. The activities below aim to combine both these strands by identifying ways of integrating specific SPaG success criteria into an extended writing task and developing children’s understanding of the purpose of grammar through a process of focused peer- and self-assessment.
The Statutory Requirements set out in the Writing – composition section of the programmes of study for both lower and upper Key Stage 2 include expectations that children evaluate and edit their own and others’ writing. They should be taught to assess effectiveness, suggest improvements and propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to improve consistency or enhance effects. The use of adverbials is identified in the Detail of content to be introduced (statutory requirement) from the English Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation:
Year 3:- Expressing time, place and cause using … adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore],
- Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]
- Use of commas after fronted adverbials
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Published 23 November 2016
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