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National Literacy Strategy: Year 2: Term 3

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	Choosing the appropriate vowel to correctly spell simple CVC words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Communication, Language and Literacy - hear and say initial and final sounds in words and short vowel sounds within words. NLS Reception: W2: reading letter(s) that represent(s) the sounds a-z; identifying and writing dominant phonemes in spoken words. Y1,T1: W3: From YR to practise and secure the ability to hear initial and final phonemes in CVC words e.g fit, mat, pan. W4: to discriminate and segment all three phonemes in CVC words. NC KS1: En2 Reading: 1a hear, identify, segment and blend phonemes in words. En3 Writing 4b use their knowledge of sound-symbol relationships and phonological patterns
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	Choosing the correct vowel(s) to correctly spell simple words which contain long vowel sounds.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y1, T3, W1: the common spelling patterns for each of the long vowel phonemes: ee, ai, ie, oa, oo NC KS1: Reading: Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge e) recognise that the same sounds may have different spellings and that the same spellings may relate to different sounds. Word recognition and graphic knowledge f) read on sight high-frequency words and other familiar words.
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	A matching pairs game with present and past forms of words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y2 T3 S3: to use standard forms of words in speaking and writing, e.g. catch/ caught, see/saw, go/ went and to use the past tense consistently for narration; Y3 T1 S4: to use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing e.g. catch/ caught, see/saw, go/ went etc. Use past tense consistently for narration. NC - KS2: En2: 1c: To read with fluency, accuracy and understanding, pupils should be taught to use [...] c) knowledge of grammatical structures.
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	Choose the correct question word to change a statement into a question - and put a question mark at the end.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y2, T3 S6: To turn statements into questions, learning a range of 'wh' words typically used to open questions: what, where, when, who and to add question marks. NC English KS1 Punctuation 3c: to use capital letters, full stops, question marks and to begin to use commas.
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	Recognising the number of syllables (1, 2 or 3) in everyday words.		Add this to your personal activity ist
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y2, T2, W5: to discriminate, orally, syllables in multi-syllable words using words from children's reading. NC KS1: Reading: Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge d) identify syllables in words.
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