Year 2 SPaG Autumn Term

Year 2 SPaG scheme – Autumn

Spectacular SPaG is an exciting pick up and go SPaG scheme, using small steps, designed to save you time whilst making SPaG engaging and active.

There are 10 lessons in the Autumn block of work, each of which focuses on a small step taken from the DfE’s English Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation from the national curriculum.

Each lesson has a powerpoint presentation, an activity sheet and a worksheet. The activity sheets focus more on practical activities and the worksheets apply the skills, often through writing. Each activity and worksheet is differentiated at two levels. The less challenging resources tend to use words from earlier phonics phases and often include visual prompts and scaffolding.

Each lesson plan also includes ideas for additional or continuous provision activities.

The vocabulary used in the resources in this block is aligned with phonics phases 4 and 5. Sometimes the vocabulary is kept simple to allow the children to focus on the new concept that is being taught.

Dependent on your timetabling and individual needs of your children, you may wish to split each lesson over 2, 3 or more sessions.

Small steps

The following small steps are covered this term:

✅ Write sentences using ‘and’ or ‘but’
✅ Recognise and use questions and exclamations
✅ Use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
✅ Use ‘when’ to link clauses in a sentence
✅ Use ‘because’ to link clauses in a sentence
✅ Identify nouns
✅ Form compound nouns
✅ Use adjectives to form a noun phrase
✅ Identify past or present tense verbs
✅ Use the past and present progressive form of verbs

In Year 2, SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar) covers the following areas:

1. Spelling
– Common exception words (words that don’t follow typical phonetic rules).
– Phonics skills, including graphemes and phonemes.
– The use of suffixes (e.g., -ing, -ed, -er) and prefixes (e.g., un-, dis-).

2. Punctuation
– Using capital letters for names, places, and the start of sentences.
– Using full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks.
– Introduction to commas for lists.

3. Grammar
– Understanding the concepts of nouns (common and proper), verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
– Basic sentence structure, including the subject and predicate.
– Plural and singular forms of nouns.
– Use of conjunctions (e.g., and, but, because) to join sentences.

These elements help to build a solid foundation for writing and comprehension in subsequent years.