PROGRESSION IN VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

BASIC SKILLS
YEAR 2
AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2
Use of capital Use a capital letter Use of capital Commas to separate MUST Use of capital Revision
letters, full stops, for names of people letters, full stops, items in a list letters, full stops, and
question marks and and for days of the question marks and question marks and
Assessment
exclamation marks to week exclamation marks to exclamation marks to
demarcate sentences demarcate sentences demarcate sentences
Use of capital Subordination (using Know how the Use of the progressive Apostrophes to mark
letters, full stops, when, if, that, because) grammatical patterns form of verbs in the where letters are
question marks and and co-ordination in a sentence indicate present and past tense missing in spelling and
exclamation marks to (using or, and, but) its function as a to mark actions in to mark singular
demarcate sentences statement, question, progress [for example, possession in nouns [for
exclamation or she is drumming, he example, the girl’s
command was shouting] name]
To identify nouns Function of verbs and Subordination (using Formation of
recognize in sentences when , if , that , because) adjectives using
and co-ordination suffixes such as –ful, –
(using or, and, but) less(A fuller list of
suffixes can be found
on page 57 in the year
New Terminology for
2 spelling section in
Pupils
English Appendix 1)
Begin to recognize the Formation of nouns Correct choice and To identify speech Use of the suffixes –
correct choice of using suffixes such as – consistent use of marks in reading, er, –est in adjectives noun, noun phrase
present tense and past ness, –er and by present tense and past understanding their and the use of –ly in statement, question,
tense throughout compounding [for tense throughout purpose and, use the Standard English to exclamation, command
writing example, whiteboard, writing terms correctly turn adjectives into compound, suffix
superman] adverbs adjective, adverb, verb
Commas to separate Begin to recognise Expanded noun phrases
tense (past, present)
items in a list expanded nouns for description and
apostrophe, comma
phrases for description specification [for
and specification [for example, the blue
example, the blue butterfly, plain flour,
butterfly, plain flour, the the man in the moon]
man in the moon]