Grammar and punctuation YR2

[lovecheese]

A question for teachers, really. Just wondering what level of G and P a child would have to be regularly using to achieve a level 2 or level 3 . Thanks.

I would expect capital letters, full stops and question marks to be used accurately and to see other punctuation used (but perhaps not 100% accurate) and to see correct grammatical structure (noun and verb agreement) and the use of adverbs and adjectives.

Thanks mrz; assuming then that colons, hyphens, exclamation marks, brackets and good connectives are a higher level?

. " " ! ? ,

Sorry couldn't help it .

Using capital letters at start of sentence and full stops at the end. Knowing when to use exclamation and question marks. Using commas - generally when list making within a sentence. Not using CAPITALS in the midDle of words and sentences. Speech marks usage. An indication of joined up handwriting helps towards a level 3 although this does not have to be every word in the sentence.

Right, so in a school that does not teach joined-up writing until the summer term, would this hold children back from a 3?

lovecheese - if I understand you correctly, your DC's school does not teach children to write in joined up writing until the end of Y2?

How do the children write until then?

pre-cursive

OK, thanks.

. ~ level 1
. ? ~level 2
. ? , ! ~ level 3
. ? , ! ... ' "" ~level 4
. ? , ! ...' "" : ; () - ~ level 5

very rough guide
plus capital letters used appropriately.

Bonsoir - realised I missed my chance to answer "with pencils" boom, boom!

mrz the list is great, thanks.

The joined up handwriting would not hold a child back from a level 3 but it would be a bonus if you see what I mean.

As a parent I'm quite surprised that the school do not teach joined up until the Summer term of Y2 as schools around us tend to start at the beginning of Yr2 - having said that I always thought that too early as many Yr1s, my own dd included, had only just begun to standardise the size and formation of the lettering.

you might find this helpful -

curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-1-and-2/subjects/english/attainmenttargets/index.aspx

curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-1-and-2/subjects/english/attainmenttargets/index.aspx

Blimey - my ds (Year 2) couldn't use speechmarks but started cursive writing straight away in nursery/reception - weird how they are all different.

omnietyinstables - quite! DD is just starting to do a bit of cursive writing off her own back, for fun, but reliably uses Capital letters, full-stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes and speech marks, and fairly reliably brackets, hyphens, colons and .....'s!

I had to ban ellipse with my Y2 class

Why, mrz? Was it being overused?

yes they used ellipse even in lists!

It's ellipsis, mrz.

It should be ellipses for the plural but even so I've got it wrong ... twice!

Yes, but you used the word foci in context a while ago, so that more than makes up for it.

Shocking mistake once but to do it TWICE!

I assumed you might be doing a secret Maths masters on the side...but I only knew what it meant when I'd looked it up!

Only Big Maths I'm afraid I never got past A level maths

Back to your list, mrz, really surprised to see speech marks coming in at level 4? surely loads of children use them appropriately long before this??