Year 4 SPaG lesson sheets

The scheme and the PowerPoints

Fronted adverbials and commas

• 1. What is an adverbial?: Words and phrases that tell you when, where, how or how often something happens. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Recognising fronted adverbials (1): Finding the fronted adverbial at the start of a sentence and punctuating it. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Time adverbials: Fronted adverbials that tell you when, such as later that day and after lunch. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Place adverbials: Fronted adverbials that tell you where, such as behind the shed and in the garden. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Descriptive adverbials: Fronted adverbials that tell you how, such as without a sound and with a smile. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. Recognising fronted adverbials (2): Telling fronted adverbials of time, place, manner and frequency apart. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 7. Using fronted adverbials: Moving an adverbial to the front of a sentence and choosing the best one. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 8. Fronted adverbials together: Mixed practice: what an adverbial is, the four kinds of fronted adverbial, moving them to the front and the comma. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Apostrophes

• 1. Recognising apostrophes: Telling an apostrophe for missing letters from one for belonging. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Apostrophes for plural possession: Where the apostrophe goes when more than one person owns something. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. When not to use an apostrophe: Plurals, its and it’s, and words such as theirs and ours that never take an apostrophe. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Possession or contraction: Choosing between an apostrophe for missing letters and one for possession. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Apostrophes together: Mixed practice: missing letters, singular and plural possession and when not to use an apostrophe. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Direct speech

• 1. Recognising direct speech: Finding the spoken words in a sentence and telling direct from reported speech. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Punctuating direct speech: Inverted commas, capital letters, commas and end marks in direct speech. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Direct speech with reporting verbs: Reporting clauses at the start, middle and end of a sentence, with verbs other than said. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Direct or indirect speech: Changing direct speech into reported speech and back. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Direct speech together: Mixed practice: finding, punctuating and reporting speech. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Verb tenses

• 1. Past tense: The simple past and the past progressive, with regular and irregular verbs. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Present tense: The simple present and the present progressive. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Present perfect or simple past: Has or have with the past participle, and how it differs from the simple past. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Tenses together: Mixed practice: the simple and progressive tenses and the present perfect. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Nouns and pronouns

• 1. Recognising nouns: Common, proper, collective and abstract nouns. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Recognising pronouns: Finding pronouns and saying whether they are personal or possessive, singular or plural. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Using pronouns: Choosing the right pronoun and replacing nouns with pronouns. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Pronoun or noun?: Deciding when to use a noun and when a pronoun makes the writing clearer. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Noun types together: Mixed practice: kinds of noun, pronouns, and choosing between a noun and a pronoun. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Noun phrases

• 1. Identifying noun phrases: Finding the noun phrase in a sentence. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Modifying adjectives and nouns: Adding adjectives, or a noun that describes, before a noun. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Determiners before modifiers: The determiner comes first: the, my, this, two, some. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Prepositional phrases in noun phrases: Adding a prepositional phrase after the noun. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Using expanded noun phrases: Writing noun phrases with an adjective and a preposition. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Standard English

• 1. Were or was, did or done: Was and were, did and done, saw and seen in Standard English. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. I or me: Choosing I or me when you talk about yourself and someone else. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Have not of, those not them: Should have (not should of) and those books (not them books). · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Standard English in paragraphs: Spotting and correcting non-Standard English across a short text. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Conjunctions and clauses

• 1. Clauses: Main clauses and subordinate clauses. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Expanding sentences with conjunctions: Conjunctions that tell you when, where and why. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Coordinating conjunctions: And, but, or and so. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Subordinating conjunctions: Because, when, if, before, after, while and although. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Determiners, adverbs and prepositions

• 1. Using determiners: Articles, possessive, demonstrative and numerical determiners and quantifiers. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. A or an: Choosing a or an by the first sound of the next word. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Expanding sentences with adverbs: Adverbs of time, place and cause. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Choosing adverbs: Choosing and making adverbs so that a sentence says what you mean. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Expanding sentences with prepositions: Prepositions of time, place and cause. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. Prepositional phrases: A preposition and the noun that follows it. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Paragraphs

• 1. Using paragraphs: Starting a new paragraph when the time, place, topic or speaker changes. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Identifying paragraphs: Spotting where a paragraph should start and why. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Fronted adverbials in paragraphs: Fronted adverbials that start a new paragraph or link sentences. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Pronouns and conjunctions in paragraphs: Pronouns and conjunctions that link the sentences of a paragraph. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Speech in paragraphs: A new line for each new speaker. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. More than one paragraph: How paragraphs fit together in a longer text. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 7. Sequencing paragraphs: Putting sentences and paragraphs in a sensible order. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

Word families, prefixes and suffixes

• 1. Word families: Words that share a root, and how the root can change. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 2. Prefixes dis-, mis- and re-: Making new words with the prefixes dis-, mis- and re-. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 3. Prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir-: The prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir- that mean not. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 4. Words ending -sure, -ture and -cher: Spelling words that end in -sure, -ture and -cher. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 5. Endings -ation, -sion, -ssion, -tion and -cian: Spelling words that end with the sound shun. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 6. Using suffixes: The suffixes -ly and -ous, and how the spelling of the word can change. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint
• 7. Root words together: Mixed practice: word families, prefixes and suffixes. · Make a sheet · PowerPoint

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