AUTUMN TERM PLAN Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Year 1
M.Miller
Pupils should be taught to:
develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:
 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 in English Appendix 2
 use the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.
Nelson Grammar Workbook Units
Week
1
2
Unit 3
Describing Words
3
Continue
adjectives.
4
Unit 1
The Alphabet
5
Unit 2
Naming Words
6
Naming words
7
Unit 9
Special naming
words
Focus
No Grammar settling in / Class routines.
Initial letter sounds ( Link with L and S)
Introduce word - adjective
Activity
Initial letter sound assessment - TA
Continue adjectives
Linked to story Supermarket Zoo children to write adjectives to describe animals to use
in a shopping list to Albie
recognising and writing.
Which letter do these pictures start with?
Can you write the letter that each of these pictures start with?
Introduce word - noun.
Label objects
Match the label to the picture.
Write a label to go with each picture
Label parts of the body for animals and
themselves.
To understand that all names start with a capital
letter.
Linked to literacy story The Big Animal Mix Up. Children to label the parts of their own
mixed up animal.
Children to correct mistakes in sentences for names of people and places.
Children to practise own names with a clear capital letter at the beginning.
Adjectives linked with colours.
Match colours to describe different objects.
8
Unit 4
Naming Words
and describing
Words.
Revisit nouns and adjectives.
Can the children determine which is which?
Describe objects using an adjective and a noun.
Be able to say which word is a noun and which is an adjective. - Revision
9
Unit 5
Doing Words
10
Unit 7
Doing Words
Introduce the word – verb
Can the children recognise ‘doing’ words.
Children to act out different ‘doing’ words
Copy and match ‘doing’ picture
Pick out verbs from a sentence.
Complete sentences using correct verb linked to ‘to be’ are am is
Fill in missing words.
Correct mistakes in sentences.
11 Verbs
Recognising ‘bossy’ verbs in instructions.
12 Unit 6
Alphabetical
Order.
To be able to say the letters of the alphabet in
order.
To recognise lower case and Capital letters.
Be able to order the letters in the alphabet.
To introduce the idea of plurals.
12 Unit 8
More than one
14
Recognise when I, he, She, we is used in a
sentence.
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY WEEK
Link with instruction writing for Christmas Cakes and pick out ‘bossy’ verbs that are
telling us to do something. Ie stir, put, lift etc.
Filling in missing letters in the alphabet. Lower case and capital letters.
Sing the alphabet song.
Children to add the ‘s’ to words to make them more than one.
Discuss how the words change and give examples for the children to try.
SPRING TERM PLAN Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Year 1 M.Miller
Pupils should be taught to:
develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:
 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 in English Appendix 2
 use the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.
Week
1
Unit 10
Doing Words
Focus
To be able to recognise a verb in a
sentence as a ‘doing’ word.
To be able to add ‘ing’ to make a verb
2
Unit 12
Doing Words
To be able to recognise a verb in a
sentence as a ‘doing’ word.
To be able to add ‘ing’ to make a verb
Activity
Demonstrate different verbs like walking, running, jumping, what do the children notice about
each of the words – ‘ing’
Complete sentences.
Match pictures.
Complete sentences.
Match pictures
Write sentences with a picture stimulus with correct ‘doing’ word.
3
Unit 11
Sentences
4
Unit 14
Sentences
To be able to use a capital letter and full
stop in a sentence
Writing capital letters correctly.
Adding capital letters and full stops to a sentences where they are omitted.
To be able to use a capital letter and full
stop in a sentence.
To read a sentences and check the words
are in the correct order.
To be able to describe quantity of objects
using cardinal numbers.
Correcting sentences
Adding Capital letters appropriately.
Ordering sentences to form a narrative.
Revision of all areas covered so far this
year.
Alphabet, describing words, plurals,verbs.
5
Unit 13
Describing
Words
6
Revision Unit
for Book A
Write numbers in words – one, two three … ten
Match to pictures
7
Unit 1
Naming Words
8
Unit 2
Sentences
9
Unit 3
Doing Words
To be able to label and name common nouns
10
Unit 4
Special naming
words
11
Unit 5
Sentences
To be able to order and write the days of
the week
To be able to distinguish between
statements, exclamations and questions
Punctuating sentences.
Writing sentences from a story stimulus
Identify exclamations and questions
12
Unit 6
Describing
Words
13
To be able to identify adjectives in a
sentence
Adding adjectives to nouns
Choosing appropriate adjectives.
To be able to recognise a statements and a
question.
To use . and ? for each
To be able to recognise a verb in a
sentence.
EASTER ACTVITIES THIS WEEK
Writing nouns beginning with a given letter/ labelling pictures
Identifying and writing common nouns
Using common nouns in sentences.
Writing Statements and Questions using a ?
Punctuation statements and questions
Writing questions from a story stimulus.
Adding ing
We are
He is
I am etc
Ordering days according to alphabetical order.
Answering questions about days of the week.
What do we do on different days of the week
SUMMER TERM PLAN Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Year 1
M.Miller
Pupils should be taught to:
develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:
 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 in English Appendix 2
 use the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.
1
Unit 7
Special Naming
words
2
Unit 8
Doing Words
3
Unit 9
More than one
4
Unit 10
Joining Words
To be able to recognise the months of the
year and use a capital letter to start each
one.
Writing Months of the year in alphabetical order.
Adding capital letters to the months.
Write sentences from a story stimulus linked to months of the year.
To be able to add ed /d to core words
(past tense)
Adding endings to complete sentences.
Matching past tense verbs to pictures
Writing appropriate verbs for picture stimulus.
Completing sentences using nouns
Solving clues with singular and plural words.
To be able to join a sentence using ‘and’
Write and join sentences using a picture stimulus
Identify conjunctions in a sentence
5
Unit 11
Special naming
words
6
Special naming
words
7
Unit 12
Doing words
To be able to identify and write proper
nouns with a capital letter to start each.
Places – Adding place names to a map
Adding capital letters to places.
Missing capital letters.
To be able to identify and write proper
nouns with a capital letter to start each
Bembridge Village topic – labelling road signs around the village.
My Address
To be able to add ed /d to core words
(past tense)
Adding d/ed to core words.
Doubling last letter if needed.
To recognise and identify nouns.
8
Unit 13
Opposites
9
Unit 14
Naming words
(jobs)
10
Revision unit
for Book B
To be able to recognise and use the prefix
‘un’
Opposite verbs – writing sentences
Identify opposites and matching
To be able to add ‘er’ (suffix) to a word to
create a job.
Matching words to pictures.
Completing sentences adding ending ‘er’
Revision of all areas covered so far this
year.