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& Pun c t uation Spelling, G rammar
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Sara Wernham and Sue Lloyd Formerly
Introduction
What is Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation?
Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation is a six-level programme in Jolly Literacy that gives young children the skills they need to be confident readers and enthusiastic writers. It builds on the teaching in Jolly Phonics and has the same multisensory, active and fun approach. The systematic and cumulative syllabus enables children to spell and punctuate more accurately, use a wider vocabulary, and have a clearer understanding of how language works. Its structured approach is suited to whole-school, whole-class teaching but it also works well with individual children.
Each level provides material for 36 weeks’ teaching, with two lessons per week, one on spelling and one on grammar. These terms are used loosely and there is some overlap: parts of speech, punctuation and vocabulary development are among the areas covered in both spelling and grammar lessons. This is deliberate, as the two elements complement each other when combined.
Teachers are free to teach other aspects of literacy during the remainder of the week, such as comprehension, group and individual reading, formal and creative writing, and handwriting practice. It is important to show the children how their spelling and grammar work relates to these areas. For instance, if they have recently learnt about colons and semicolons, or the use of the passive voice, the children can be encouraged to spot any examples in the text they are studying, and to look at what goes before and after the punctuation, or identify the part of to be and the past participle used to form the passive verb.
Children’s Achievement
The most dramatic improvements to result from using Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation will be found in the children’s writing. In their first year at school, Jolly Phonics teaches the children to write independently by listening for the sounds in words and choosing letters to represent the sounds. This skill enables the children to write pages of news and stories and it is a joy to read their work and to see the pride and confidence they derive from their newly acquired skills.
Jolly Literacy’s Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation builds on this foundation over the next six years, with a carefully planned syllabus designed to develop the children’s writing skills. Gradually, the children become aware that they are writing for a purpose: that their words are intended to be read and understood.
They learn that their writing is easier to understand if it is grammatically correct, accurately spelt, well punctuated and neatly written. The children also learn that if they use interesting words their writing can give real pleasure. Even in the early stages, it is valuable for children to have a simple understanding of this longterm goal.
Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation: Level 6
Level 6 of the programme is designed to do the following:
• introduce new elements of grammar,
• teach new spelling patterns systematically,
• develop dictionary and thesaurus skills,
• improve vocabulary and comprehension,
• develop a greater understanding of sentence structure,
• reinforce the teaching of the earlier levels, and
• extend and refine the children’s understanding of the grammar already taught.
It places particular emphasis on consolidating the children’s learning and helping them to apply their new skills. It also introduces new spelling patterns and further categories within the parts of speech. Each part of speech has an accompanying action and colour. The actions enliven the teaching and make the parts of speech easier to remember. The colours, which are the same as those used in Montessori Schools, are very useful when identifying and labelling the parts of speech in sentences.
It also follows the convention of using different symbols to distinguish between letter names and letter sounds: the word ship, for example, starts with the letter ‹s›, but its initial sound is /sh/.
How to Use the Core Materials
For each level, there is a comprehensive guide for the teacher, plus a colour write-in book, a copy of which should be given to every pupil in the class.
For ease of use, the Teacher’s Book is divided into two distinct sections. The first part gives a comprehensive introduction to the programme and explains the methodology. It is a good idea to read this before using the Pupil and Teacher’s Books in the classroom. The second part provides structured lesson plans that give step-by-step guidance on all aspects of the lesson, including the Pupil Book activities.
Most children need to be taught to spell correctly. In the Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation program, spelling is the main focus for one lesson each week. The spelling activities in Level 6 are designed to consolidate the children’s existing knowledge and introduce new spelling patterns. Its main focus is on the more unusual spellings of the vowel sounds, less common silent letter digraphs, number prefixes, and closely related suffixes like ‹-ity› and ‹-ety›, ‹-ious› and ‹-eous›, and ‹-ure› and ‹-our›.
The children first learnt to spell by listening for the sounds in a word and writing the letters that represent those sounds. They also systematically learnt the tricky words, which are frequently used words that either have an irregular spelling or use phonic knowledge that the children do not know yet. After completing Jolly Phonics and Level 1, most children have a reading age of at least seven years, and they are starting to spell with far greater accuracy. As research has shown, children with a reading age of seven years or more are able to use analogy in their reasoning. This is a useful strategy for spelling. For example, children who know the word would and who want to write should, might notice that the end of both words sound the same. They can then use this knowledge to write should, replacing the ‹w› with ‹sh›. If the children are unsure of a spelling, they may be able to find it by writing the word in several ways (such as should, shood and shud) and choosing the version that looks correct. If they have already encountered the word several times in their reading, they will probably be able to choose the right one. By introducing groups of spelling words that each feature a particular spelling pattern, the programme encourages the children to think analogically.
1. Vowel Digraphs
The vowel digraphs were introduced in Jolly Phonics and revised in Level 1. The focus in Levels 2 and 3 was on consolidating this learning. Vowel digraph is the term for two letters that make a single vowel sound. Often, the two letters are placed next to each other in a word, as in hay, sea, out, oil and few. At least one of these letters is always a vowel, and two vowel letters are usually needed to make one of the long vowel sounds: /ai/, /ee/, /ie/, /oa/, /ue/. (The long vowel sounds are the same as the names of the vowel letters: ‹a›, ‹e›, ‹i›, ‹o›, ‹u›.) Generally, the sound made by a digraph is that of the first vowel’s name, hence the wellknown rule of thumb: When two vowels go walking, the first does the talking
A focus on revising the alternative spellings of vowel sounds and learning new ones helps the children consolidate and extend their learning. The alternative vowel spellings are what makes English spelling difficult and, by this stage, the children need to be not only revising the main ways of spelling the vowel sounds, but also improving their ability to remember which words take which spelling.
Level 6 builds on the teaching in the previous levels and assumes that the children have some knowledge of the following spelling features, which are outlined in greater detail below:
1. Vowel Digraphs
2. Alternative Spellings of the Vowel Sounds
3. New Spelling Patterns
4. Syllables
5. The Schwa
6. Silent Letters
7. Identifying the Short Vowels
8. Spelling Rules
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Teaching Ideas for Spelling hope
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Sometimes, the long vowel sound is made by two vowels separated by one or more consonants. In monosyllabic words, the second vowel is usually an ‹e›, known as a magic ‹e› because it modifies the sound of the first vowel letter. Digraphs with a magic ‹e› can be thought of as hop-over ‹e› digraphs: ‹a_e›, ‹e_e›, ‹i_e›, ‹o_e› and ‹u_e›. Once again, the sound they make is that of the first vowel’s name; the magic ‹e› is silent. Children like to show with their hand how the ‘magic’ from the ‹e› hops over the preceding consonant and changes the short vowel sound to a long one.
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The hop-over ‹e› digraphs are an alternative way of writing the long vowel sounds, and are found in words such as bake, these, fine, hope and cube. The children need to be shown many examples of such words, which are available in the Jolly Phonics Word Book. To help the children understand how magic ‹e› works, ask them to read a word twice: first with the magic ‹e› showing and then with it hidden by a piece of paper. In this way pipe becomes pip, hate becomes hat, hope becomes hop, and late becomes lat. It does not matter if, as in the late/ lat example, the children find themselves producing nonsense words; the exercise will still help them to understand the spelling rule. When looking at words on the board or in other texts, the children can be encouraged to look for and identify words with a magic ‹e›.
Although hop-over ‹e› words are generally quite common, there are only a few words with the ‹e_e› spelling pattern: examples include these, scheme and complete. Words with an ‹e_e› spelling are not only rather rare, but often quite advanced. For this reason, the ‹e_e› spelling is not made the focus of a whole lesson until Level 3.
2. Alternative Spellings of the Vowel Sounds
Children who have learnt to read with Jolly Phonics are used to spelling new words by listening for the sounds and writing the letters that represent those sounds. This skill enables the children to spell accurately the many regular words that do not contain vowel sounds with more than one spelling: words like hot, plan, brush, drench and sting.
However, trying to spell words like train, play and make presents a problem. All three words feature the same vowel sound, /ai/, but in each case it is spelt differently. The adjacent table shows the first spelling taught for each sound and the main alternatives introduced.
First spelling taught Alternative spellings for sound
Examples of all spellings in words
‹ai› ‹ay›, ‹a_e› rain, day, came
‹ee› ‹ea›, ‹e_e› street, dream, these
‹ie› ‹y›, ‹i_e›, ‹igh› pie, by, time, light
‹oa› ‹ow›, ‹o_e› boat, snow, home
‹ue› ‹ew›, ‹u_e› cue, few, cube
‹er› ‹ir›, ‹ur› her, first, turn
‹oi› ‹oy› boil, toy
‹ou› ‹ow› out, cow
‹or› ‹al›, ‹au›, ‹aw› corn, talk, haunt, saw
These vowel sounds and their alternative spellings were the main focus for spelling in Level 1 They were then revised in Levels 2 and 3 and should be familiar to the children. The alternative vowel spellings are what make English spelling difficult and it is very important to keep consolidating the teaching. This can be achieved by revising the spelling patterns regularly with flashcards, and by asking the children to list the alternative spellings for a particular sound. The children should be able to do this automatically and apply their knowledge when writing unfamiliar words. For example, with a word like frame, they should be able to write fraim, fraym, frame on a scrap of paper, before deciding which version looks correct.
3. New Spelling Patterns
Many of the less common spellings for familiar sounds were introduced in Levels 2 and 3. A few were taught earlier in Level 1, and others have been introduced in subsequent levels. The adjacent table (and the tables on the following pages) show the spellings first taught and the new spelling patterns introduced. The children need to memorise which words use each of these new spelling patterns. It is helpful to make up silly sentences for each spelling, using as many of the
words as possible. For example, for the ‹ie› spelling of the /ee/ sound, the children could chant the following: I believe my niece was the chief thief who came to grief over the piece of shield she hid in the field.
Levels 2 and 3 also featured a few sounds that had not been a focus for spelling before. Level 2 introduced the new sounds /zh/ (written as ‹si›, as in vision) and /ear/ (written as ‹ear›, as in hear and earring). It also taught the ‹air›, ‹are› and ‹ear› spellings of /air/ (as in hair, care and bear). In Level 3, the children learnt that /ear/ can also be written as ‹eer› and ‹ere› (as in deer and here); that ‹ere› also makes the /air/ sound (as in there and where); and that ‹s› makes a /zh/ sound in words like pleasure and treasure. Later, in Level 6, ‹ere› is revised as an alternative spelling of both /air/ and /ear/, and the spelling pattern ‹eir› is introduced as another alternative for both sounds (as in their and weird).
Throughout the programme, the children’s knowledge of the spelling pattern ‹ure› is revised and extended. In Level 2, the children learnt that ‹ture› says /cher/ in words like picture and future. In Level 3, they looked at how ‹ure› can follow other letters to make words like leisure, pressure, figure, failure and conjure. In Level 5, the children learnt that in short words, ‹ure› usually keeps its pure sound, /ue-r/ (as in pure and cure), but that in words like sure, unsure and ensure, ‹sure› says /shor/. Finally, in Level 6, the children look at how the ‹ure› in longer, multisyllabic words is often swallowed in an unstressed syllable, becoming a schwa, or neutral vowel.
First spelling taught for sound(s)
New spelling(s) for sound(s)
Examples of new spellings in words
Spellings taught in Levels 1 and 2
‹ai› ‹ei›, ‹eigh› veil, eighteen ‹cher›* ‹ture› capture, nature
‹e› ‹ea› breakfast, ready
‹ee› ‹ey›, ‹ie›, ‹y›** key, field, fairy**
‹f› ‹ph› graph, photo
‹j› soft ‹g› gem, giant
‹k› ‹ch›, ‹ck› chord, cricket
‹ngk› nk** ink, bank, trunk
‹ ool›* ‹le› handle, little
‹or› ‹ore› more, snore, wore
‹s› soft ‹c› cell, city, cycle
‹sh› ‹si›, ‹ti› tension, station
‹u› ‹o›, ‹ou› month, touch
‹w› ‹wh›** whale, whistle
‹(w)o› ‹(w)a› swan, watch, wasp
Spelling and Grammar Lessons
Each grammar lesson has its own particular focus and the lesson plans vary accordingly. However, the grammar lessons all follow the same standard format, which helps to give them a recognisable shape. The format of the grammar lessons is as follows:
Grammar Lessons
a. Aim
b. Introduction
c. Main Point
d. Activity Page
e. Extension Activity
f. Rounding Off
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Spelling Lessons
The spelling lessons all follow the same basic format:
a. Spelling Test
b. Revision
c. Spelling Point
d. Spelling List
e. Activity Pages 1 and 2
f. Dictation
Many teaching points are common to all of the spelling lessons, so these are explained in further detail on the following pages.
a. Spelling Test
Six pages are provided at the back of the Pupil Book for the weekly spelling tests (pages 110 to 115). Start by telling the children to turn to the back of their books and find the space for that week’s test. Call out the words one at a time for the children to write on the lines. Repeat each word twice, giving the children just enough time to write each word before moving on to the next one. The words can be called out in the same order as they appear in the list, but it is best if they are called out in a random order. Those children who find it difficult can be given fewer words to learn.
b. Revision
Each lesson should start with some revision. Early lessons concentrate on commonly confused homophones, such as its and it’s; to, two and too; our, hour and are; your and you’re; there, their and they’re; and where, wear and were. After that, they focus on the prefixes, suffixes, spelling rules and spelling patterns introduced in recent lessons. The lesson plans provide suitable words to write on the board and discuss with the class.
c. Spelling Point
In Level 6, the focus of many spelling lessons is on the more unusual vowel spellings and silent letter digraphs, and on commonly used prefixes and suffixes. Analysing different parts of a word and understanding how they convey meaning, or recognising when they form a certain part of speech, can help the children enormously with their comprehension, particularly when reading unfamiliar words for the first time.
d. Spelling List
Each week, the children are given eighteen words with a particular spelling pattern to learn for a test. It is a good idea to give the spelling homework at the beginning of the week and to test at the end of the week, or on the following Monday. The spelling words have been carefully selected to enable every child to have some success. The eighteen words can be divided into three groups of six. The words in the first group are usually short, regular and fairly common; those in the second group are a bit longer and may have more alternative spellings in them; and the third group has longer, often less common words, with more varied spellings.
For those children who find spelling difficult, it may be appropriate to give them only the first six spelling words; the number can be increased when the children are ready. The number of spelling words given to the children is at the teacher’s discretion, based on his or her knowledge of the children in the class.
It is important to go over the words during the spelling lesson. Look carefully at each spelling list with the class: discuss the meanings of any unfamiliar words, and look to see which parts of a word are regular and identify those parts that are not. The lesson plans in the Teacher’s Book point out the words that need particular attention and suggest suitable learning strategies. The spelling activity pages will also help the children become more familiar with the words and their spellings. Go over the spelling words as often as possible during the week, ideally blending and sounding out the words with the children every day. The class can also work in pairs, testing each other on their spellings in spare moments.
Each child takes the list of spellings home to learn. If the children usually leave their Pupil Books at school, the words can be copied out into a small homework book for the children to take home. If the children do the writing, check that they have copied the words clearly and accurately before the books go home.
Test and mark the spellings each week. The results should be written in the children’s Pupil Books for the parents to see. Write in the mark out of eighteen or use a coded system, if preferred, such as coloured stars: a gold star for 18/18, a silver star for 17/18 and a coloured star for 16/18, for example. Most parents like to be involved in their children’s homework and are interested to see how many words were spelt correctly and which words were misspelt.
Children need to be aware that accurate spelling is important for their future. Unfortunately, there is no magic wand that can be waved to make them good at spelling. In addition to knowing the letter sounds and alternative spellings thoroughly, a certain amount of dedication and practice is needed.
e. Activity Pages 1 and 2
Now that the children are older, there are two spelling activity pages per lesson. As in previous levels, the focus of each spelling page reflects the main teaching point. Every week, there are two activities on Activity Page 1 that use the words from the spelling list. In the first activity, the children have to write out the spelling words, splitting them into syllables: the children should be familiar with doing this now, so they are given no clues and have to work out the number of syllables for themselves. (The lesson plans show how the words should be split, but as long as the children are able to hear the syllables, which are organised around the vowel sounds, and can indicate them approximately, their work should be marked as correct. For more information on syllables, see pages 26 and 27.)
The second activity is more varied: it could be writing in the missing letters; putting words in alphabetical order; using them to solve crossword clues; finding them in
Spelling: ‹-ial›
Spelling Test
• The children turn to the backs of their books and find the column labelled Spelling Test 28.
• Call out the spelling words learnt last week.
Revision
• Write these words on the board and ask the class to identify the suffix in each one: safety, reality, society, ability, variety, curiosity, anxiety, possibility
• Ask the children to use one of these words in a sentence.
Spelling Point
• Revise the suffix ‹-ial› – a variant of ‹-al› – often used when the root word ends in ‹y› or ‹ce›. When it appears in words ending in ‹tial›, ‹cial› and ‹sial›, the ‹i› helps make the /sh/ sound and the unstressed ‹a› becomes a schwa.
• However, when other letters precede it, the ‹i› usually makes a sound somewhere between /i/ and /ee/, as in burial and trivial, and can also say /ie/, as in denial
• Remind the children that ‹-ial› often appears in adjectives that describe something as relating to or having the qualities of the (root) noun (so secretarial work is done by a secretary and a ceremonial uniform is worn at special ceremonies).
• Look again at the words denial and burial and point out that ‹-ial› is also found in nouns that name the action or practice of the root verb.
• Look at some more spelling words and identify the root word where possible.
Spelling List
• Go through the list, asking the class to find and highlight the suffix ‹-ial› each time. Also discuss the meaning of any unfamiliar words.
• Point out other spelling features, such as the ‹e› saying /i/ in denial and secretarial, the ‹i› saying /ie/ in denial, the ‹u› saying /e/ in burial, the ‹o› saying its long sound in jovial and ceremonial, the ‹er› saying /ear/ in material and imperial, the double ‹r› in territorial, the ‹ar› saying /air/ in secretarial, the soft ‹c› in ceremonial and celestial, the spoken ‹i› in celestial (rather than ‹tial› saying /shul/), and ‹u› saying /oo/ in marsupial.
• It is a good idea to blend and sound out the spelling words quickly every day with the class. Where appropriate, use the say it as it sounds strategy, stressing, for example, the pure sound of any schwas (as in material and memorial).
Activity Page 1
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• The children split each word into syllables to help remember the spelling (de/ni/al, triv/i/al, bur/i/al, jo/vi/al,
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ma/te/ri/al, im/pe/ri/al, me/mo/ri/al, ter/ri/to/ri/al, ed/i/to/ri/ al, in/dus/tri/al, sec/re/tar/i/al, cer/e/mo/ni/al, ce/les/ti/al, sac/ri/fi/cial, sub/stan/tial, mar/su/pi/al, prej/u/di/cial, con/ tro/ver/sial).
• They then work out the answers to the crossword clues and write them in (1. denial, 2. ceremonial, 3. substantial, 4. industrial, 5. sacrificial, 6. trivial, 7. burial, 8. marsupial, 9. secretarial, 10. prejudicial, 11. celestial, 12. editorial, 13. jovial, 14. imperial, 15. memorial, 16. territorial, 17. material)
Activity Page 2
• The children write the spelling word that belongs to the same word family as each noun or verb (Left-hand column: prejudicial, material, burial, trivial, sacrificial, ceremonial, controversial; Right-hand column: secretarial, memorial, denial, editorial, imperial, territorial, substantial).
• Then they parse the sentence and complete the wall: A memorial service was held (for their uncle)
Top: service - was held - [blank]
Bottom: A memorial - for their uncle - [blank]
Verb: passive
– The passive verb uses the auxiliary was with the irregular past participle held.
– The prepositional phrase for their uncle is acting as an adverb, so it needs orange brackets.
Dictation
• Dictate the following sentences:
1. The referee’s decision was extremely controversial.
2. “The kangaroo is an Australian marsupial,” she explained.
3. The imperial guards were wearing their ceremonial swords. denial trivial burial jovial material imperial memorial territorial editorial industrial secretarial ceremonial celestial sacrificial substantial marsupial prejudicial controversial
• Remind the class to use speech marks with the correct punctuation in Sentence 2. The proper adjective Australian needs a capital letter.
Grammar: Modal Adverbs
Aim
• Introduce modal adverbs, which modify main verbs and modal verbs to express different degrees of certainty. They range from very certain (as in surely, certainly, clearly, definitely, obviously and absolutely) to quite certain (usually expressed by probably) to less certain (as in apparently, possibly, perhaps and maybe).
Introduction
• Revise adverbs with the class:
Adverbs are words that usually describe or modify a verb, telling us more about how, where, when, how much or how often something happens (as in quickly, away, yesterday, almost and sometimes).
Although many adverbs – like quickly – are made by adding ‹-ly› to an adjective, many others are not; in fact, some words that do end in ‹-ly› – such as lovely, silly and friendly – are not adverbs, but adjectives.
− Adverbs can also modify other adverbs and adjectives, as in really quickly and really sad.
A few adverbs (when, where and why) are used in relative clauses to replace the more formal phrases in which, on which, at which and for which
• Remind the class that any word, phrase or clause that acts as an adverb is called an adverbial:
When adverbials are at the beginning of a sentence they are usually followed by a comma.
The most common are adverbs, noun phrases, prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses. Adverbial noun phrases always express time, telling us more about when (next week), how often (every day), or how long (all year) something occurs. Prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses sometimes tell us the reason why something occurred (I got a bike for my birthday/I was running because I was late)
Main Point
• Remind the children that in the last lesson they learnt about the modal verbs will, shall, can, could, may, might, should, would and must.
• Modal verbs are a special kind of auxiliary which are used to express degrees of certainty and obligation; indicate ability; give or ask permission; offer advice; or make suggestions.
• They are always used with the main verb’s infinitive and stay the same whichever pronoun is used.
• Write Jane can sing on the board and look at how the modal verb can expresses certainty about Jane’s ability to sing.
• Now write Jane can probably sing and ask the class how this changes the meaning: it suggests that we do not know for sure whether Jane can sing but that we think it is quite likely.
• Change probably to definitely and look at the meaning again: now there is no doubt that Jane can sing.
• Finally, change the sentence to Perhaps Jane can sing
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and ask the class whether it expresses a high or low degree of certainty: perhaps suggests that while it is possible that Jane can sing, we are not really sure and so our degree of certainty is low.
• Ask the class what part of speech probably, definitely and perhaps are (adverbs) and explain that modal adverbs, like modal verbs, can be used to express degrees of certainty.
• They are used with modal verbs like can (as in the example on the board) or with main verbs, as in I definitely like ice cream. Replace definitely in this sentence with some other modal adverbs and discuss how it affects the meaning each time.
• Point out that not all modal adverbs go so well with some modal verbs: for example, perhaps, which expresses a low degree of certainty, is not usually used with must, which expresses a high level of certainty.
Activity Page
• The children write inside the outlined word Adverbs in orange and then identify the modal verbs, underlining them in red (could be improved; can play; must get; should be; might be; would visit; May I have; will eat)
• They then rewrite each sentence twice, using a different adverb. There is no wrong or right answer, as long as the sentence makes sense.
Extension Activity
• Working in pairs, the children look at their sentences and discuss what effect the different modal adverbs have on them.
Rounding Off
• Go over the activity page with the children, discussing their answers. If any modal adverbs do not work in a sentence, discuss the reasons why.
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