Teach the Year 1 Spring SPaG curriculum through eight carefully sequenced lessons with interactive teaching slides, practical activities and differentiated worksheets. Across the term, pupils build confidence in sentence writing while developing their understanding of punctuation, capital letters, sentence structure and early grammar.
During the Spring term, pupils revisit sentence writing before learning to sequence sentences into simple narratives, use finger spaces consistently, apply capital letters and full stops accurately, use capital letters for names and days of the week, identify and use exclamation marks, join clauses using and and add the suffixes -ing, -ed and -er to verbs where no spelling change is needed. These small-step lessons build securely on Autumn learning and prepare pupils for the Summer term.
Start with the Year 1 Spring lesson plans and rationale for an overview of the teaching sequence and guidance for each lesson. You’ll also find differentiated lesson packs, planning, assessments and progression documents throughout the term, plus a linked Year 1 Spring spelling strand with weekly spelling lists, dictation tasks and supporting resources.
The Spring term is the second part of our complete Year 1 SPaG scheme. Explore the full Year 1 page to see how grammar, punctuation and spelling knowledge develops across the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms.
Follow the eight small-step lessons below to teach the complete Year 1 Spring SPaG sequence. Each lesson builds on previous learning, helping pupils develop sentence writing, punctuation and grammar skills with increasing confidence.
Use these supporting documents alongside the Year 1 Spring SPaG lessons to plan the term and review pupils’ progress. The lesson plans and rationale explain the teaching sequence, while the end of term assessment, assessment tracker and long-term overview help you monitor curriculum coverage and progression across the Spring term.
Every term of our Year 1 SPaG scheme is supported by a dedicated spelling strand, designed to be taught alongside the grammar and punctuation lessons. The Year 1 Spring spelling sequence helps pupils build confidence with common exception words and spelling patterns while reinforcing the phonics knowledge taught in class.
The Spring spelling collection includes a term overview and rationale, weekly spelling resources, dictation tasks and handwriting sheets, making it easy to teach spelling alongside the Spring SPaG lesson sequence.
During the Spring term, pupils build on their Autumn learning by combining and sequencing sentences, using finger spaces consistently, applying capital letters and full stops accurately, using capital letters for names and days of the week, identifying and using exclamation marks, joining clauses with and, and adding the suffixes -ing, -ed and -er to verbs.
Yes. Every lesson is planned around the National Curriculum English Appendix 2 objectives and follows a clear small-step progression to develop pupils’ grammar, punctuation and spelling knowledge throughout the Spring term.
Each lesson pack includes interactive teaching slides, a practical activity and differentiated worksheets. You’ll also find lesson plans and rationale, assessments and progression documents to support planning across the term.
Yes. The Spring term includes an end of term assessment and an assessment tracker to help monitor pupils’ progress and identify next steps in learning.
Yes. A dedicated Year 1 Spring spelling strand is designed to be taught alongside the SPaG lessons. It includes a term overview and rationale, weekly spelling resources, dictation tasks and handwriting sheets to reinforce spelling alongside grammar and punctuation.
Yes. The worksheets are labelled with the small step rather than the year group, making them suitable for mixed-age classes, intervention groups and SEND support where appropriate.
