Do your pupils need to revisit grammar skills regularly?
This year 3 Grammar Slam resource (set B) will give pupils the opportunity to revisit key word, sentence, text and punctuation skills from Appendix 2 of the English national curriculum. An opportunity to apply the skills in this Grammar Slam is included in the application task ‘Superhero!’
Presented as a PowerPoint, the activities can be displayed for the whole class to complete or discuss.
Content covered from English Appendix 2 in this resource:
Word: prefix super-
Sentence: adverbs
Text: past tense (revisit year 2)
Punctuation: commas in a list (revisit year 2)
Terminology used from year 3: prefix
Terminology used from previous years: comma, past tense, present tense, verb, adverb, noun
How could you use Grammar Slam?
Perfect for starters to English lessons to teach or revisit skills previously taught or display on the board at the beginning of the day during registration, or at any point where there is 5 minutes to fill, to make productive use of learning time.
This could also be used by pupils in higher year groups to revise key terminology and skills taught in previous years.
National Curriculum program of study links for English:
Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them
Pupils should develop their understanding by
- using ... adverbs ... to express time and cause
-learning the grammar for years 3 and 4 in English appendix 2
Pupils should be taught to draft and write by, in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]