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England: National Literacy Strategy: Year 4: Term 3

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	Understanding where speech marks and commas are placed when writing speech.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y4, T3: to identify common punctuation marks including commas and speech marks. Y5, T2: to identify the differences between spoken and written language. NC KS2 Writing - Punctuation 3) Pupils should be taught to used punctuation marks correctly in their writing, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, inverted commas.
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	Exploring how words are formed from a root word, a prefix and a suffix.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y4, T3, word level 8: To practice extending and compounding words through adding parts e.g ful, ly, ive, tion, ic, ist. Revise and reinforce previous work on prefixes and suffixes. Y6, T2, word level 2: To use independent spelling strategies including: building up spellings by syllabic parts, using known prefixes, suffixes and common letter strings. NC - KS2 : Morphology g) the meaning, use and spelling of common prefixes and suffixes; i) the relevance of word families, roots and origins of words.
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