1.3a Year 1: Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark (capital letters and lowercase match)

This Real Grammar resources pack provides everything that you need to successfully explore how capital letters are formed and match these to lowercase letters. The resources can be used with pupils in Year 1 or to revisit this learning in later years. Teaching slides, worksheets, games and an opportunity to apply the new learning in a writing task are all included to create a complete KS1 resource to teach pupils to recognise capital letters.

What are capital letters?

Capital letters are punctuation marks used in sentences to make meaning clear. These letters are used at the beginning of sentences, proper nouns, days of the week and months of the year. They are also used in abbreviations (for example RSPCA) and acronyms (for example AWOL). It is important that pupils learn to recognise and use capital letters appropriately, forming them correctly.

What is included in this resource pack?

This pack is divided into five parts:

Teachers can choose which section of the resource pack to use according to their pupils’ needs and could use the activities over a series of lessons or weeks

• TEACH

  This section includes PowerPoint teaching slides and teaching notes with an optional script to introduce capital letters and lowercase letters to your pupils. It can also be used to revisit this aspect of grammar with pupils.

• PRACTISE

  An independent activity for pupils to practise using what they have been taught, allowing teachers to assess understanding.

• REVISIT

  A series of short, 10-minute activities that can be used following the TEACH session to revisit and rehearse what has been taught. These may be short writing tasks, grammar games or editing/proofreading activities.

• APPLY

  A short writing task where pupils can use the grammar skills taught in context to produce independent writing.

• REVISE

  Three SATs style test questions, including cloze activities and multiple choice quiz questions, based on the grammar that has been taught.

Teacher notes are provided to show how these quality resources could be used with pupils.

How is this resource pack differentiated?

The PRACTISE and REVISE sections include three activities differentiated for three levels of ability:

• Worksheet 1 for pupils who may need support. Questions will have a lower cognitive domain (what is being asked of pupils) and/or vocabulary used may be simplified where possible.
• Worksheet 2 for pupils working at age related expectations.
• Worksheet 3 for pupils who may need an additional challenge and may be working at a greater depth in this area. Questions will have a higher cognitive domain with more challenging vocabulary.

SUPPORT and CHALLENGE ideas are also included in the teacher notes of each section where relevant, with ideas of how to support pupils working towards the expected standard or at greater depth in this area.

What pupil-facing resources are included?

• TEACH

  PPT slides; model text ‘A is for ant’; alphabet bookmark

• PRACTISE

  Practise 1, Practise 2 and Practise 3 worksheets

• REVISIT

  Game 1 and game 2

• APPLY

  Planning sheet; writing scaffold

• REVISE

  PPT slides; Revise 1, Revise 2 and Revise 3 worksheets

Answer sheets for all worksheets are provided, where appropriate.