2H Grammar Program

Grammar is integrated into the literacy program however concepts will also be taught in depth for one lesson per week to
ensure students are confident in their understanding.
Year 2 Content Teaching and Learning Activities - Modelled Guided and Independent
Term 1 Punctuation
Capital
letters
full stops
Word level
Concrete
and abstract
nouns
Article
Pronoun
Text level
Noun
pronoun
agreement
Group level
Noun group
Sentence level
Direct
speech
Reported
speech

1. Revise basic sentence punctuation. Model with and without
capital letters and full stops. Students edit and correct.

2. Identify common and proper nouns. Proper nouns need a
capital letter. Watch animation

3. Recap common and proper nouns. Introduce the concept of
abstract and concrete. Sentence examples

4. Pronouns can be used in place of a noun. Identify pronouns
personal and possessive ideas

5.Look at examples where nouns and pronouns do not agree
eg. The girl read his book. Correct them

6. When we write nouns, good writes try to describe the noun
to help the reader. A noun group may include articles and
adjective. Read text, circle nouns, underline noun groups

7. Correct use of articles a, an depending on vowel or
consonant video

8. Building noun groups. Model how to build a noun group
around a noun.

9. Create characters. Draw speech bubbles to show what they
are saying. Model how to turn this into speech in a text using
direct speech.

10. Reported speech
G-Sentence a day program.


G Sentences that include proper nouns
I - Noun dunk

G Word sort activity
I Concrete or abstract

G Pronouns worksheet
I -Pronoun online quiz

G Proofread passage. Circle and
correct errors
I Pronoun agreement quiz

G Read text and underline noun groups
I Read text and underline noun groups

G find pictures. Label with a or an
I Word sort

G Write 5 nouns. Build noun group for
each
I find noun groups in book. Copy

G Worksheet speech marks
I add the speech marks

G -




Term 2 Word level
Preposition
Clause level
Clause
Sentence level
Compound
sentence
Text level
Subjectverb
agreement
Punctuation
Comma

1. Identify a comma. What does it look like? Where does it
sit on the line? What is it used for? Make a list using
commas but not before and.

2. Commas are also used to show pauses and in speech.
Show an example from a text.

3. Subject and verbidentify the subject and the verb in a
sentence. Read text ?? and identify subjects and verbs

4. SV agreement fill in is/am/are sentences and copy
into books.

5. Clauses A clause is a group of words with a subject and
a verb. Read Gorilla. Enlarge part of text and locate verbs.
Each clause has a verb. Finds the clauses
see Naplan Teaching strategies

6. Clauses look at list of clause. Which ones can be read
on their own?

7. Compound sentence recap on clauses. Discuss ways
two clauses could be linked
and but so or for nor yet
8. Sentence sort activity

9. Preposition Discuss words that are prepositions. Sort
into time/place. Highlight prepositions in sentences.
Naplan ideas
Sentence ideas
G Worksheet
I commas quiz


G Students find their own
example in the text.

I Game


I Game -abcya






G -Student writes 3 independent
clauses on cards

G Pick two clause cards and
turn into one sentence.



G complete close passage



G
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Term 3 Word level
Verbs and adverb
Group level
Adverbial phrase
Text level
Synonyms
Antonyms
Punctuation
Question mark
Exclamation mark

synonym and antonym
resources
1. Question marks. Review question words who
what where when why how. Model how to formulate
a question

2. Synonyms are words that mean almost the same
-what means similar to happy,


3. Words instead of said. Recap speech marks.
Brainstorm how people can speak. Make class
poster.

4. Antonyms. View Smartexchange notebook to
compare synonyms and antonyms

5. Verbs -Start with a verb and extend the sentence
Adverbs tell how, how often,when, where something
happening.

6. Song Make an anchor chart with these three
headings

7. Adverbs choosing synonyms and moving word
position teacher info

8. Adverbial phrase also tells how when where but
using a group of words

9. Adverbial phrase tes ppt? Naplan teaching
strategies


10. Exclamation marks



Write a list of questions that you would
like to ask Goldilocks.


Colour in the petals for synonyms. Make
own synonym flower for class display.
Abcya game or turtle diary game

Copy the sentences, substituting said for
a better word. Remember the
punctuation.

Antonym dominoes



G Adverb acting game



Write simple SVO sentences. Improve by
adding an adverb



I underline the adverbial phrase in each
sentence

I -Improve simple sentences by adding
adverbial phrase.
G super stories editing -Scootle
Term 4 Word building and origins
Base words
Prefix
Suffix
Creative language features
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
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2. Root words worksheet tpt
3. Prefix suffix foldable tpt
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Grammar for a purpose