Literacy Year 4 Term 3

Look, Cover, Write, Check Spelling Activities for NLS Medium Frequency Wordlists (Years 4 and 5). Word Level Objectives: to practise new spellings regularly by "look, say, cover, write, check" strategy; to read and spell correctly the words in Appendix List 2.

National Literacy Strategy Year 4 Term 3

Word level work: Spelling conventions and rules

• Its and it's
  Word Level Objective 10: distinguish between the two forms: its (possessive no apostrophe) and it's (contracted 'it is') and to use these accurately in their own writing.

Sentence level work: Sentence construction and punctuation

• Types of sentence
  Sentence Level Objective 3: understand how the grammar of a sentence alters when the sentence type is altered. (Preliminary work - identifying sentence types)

• Changing statements into questions
  Sentence Level Objective 3: understand how the grammar of a sentence alters when the sentence type is altered, when, e.g. a statement is made into a question,... noting, e.g.: the order of words; verb tenses; additions and/or deletions of words; changes to punctuation; order and build up ideas.

• Positive and negative sentences
  Sentence Level Objective 3: understand how the grammar of a sentence alters when the sentence type is altered, when, e.g. ... a positive statement is made negative, noting, e.g.: the order of words; verb tenses; additions and/or deletions of words; changes to punctuation; order and build up ideas.