Year 6 SPaG scheme and resources – Spring

There are 11 lessons in the Spring 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: less able and more able. The less challenging resources tend to use simpler vocabulary 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 the spelling curriculum that the children will be covering in Year 6. 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:

✅ Use dashes between main clauses
✅ Use a colon to introduce a list
✅ Recognise and punctuate bullet points to form a list
✅ Use a colon to introduce a list and use semi- colons within lists
✅ Explore and identify active and passive
✅ Identify and use the present perfect tense
✅ Recognise the difference between informal and formal vocabulary
✅ Identify and use subjunctive forms • Identify and use question tags
✅ Use adverbials to build cohesion
✅ Use ellipsis to build cohesion