This Year 2 teaching resource consists of 34 PowerPoint slides, split into 2 sessions, covering spelling rules for adding -ed and -ing suffixes: Session 1 Do Nothing rule (jump - jumped/jumping) Double the Consonant rule ( tap - tapped/tapping) Session 2 Drop Y rule (fry - fried/frying) Drop E rule ( bake - baked/baking) Each session includes: Explanation of each rule with example Example of rule in practice with root words (animated slides) Carpet activity: children to apply the correct rule to complete the sentences (animated slides). Pupils can express their ideas on paper or whiteboards. Link to Violet’s Vowel Suffixes interactive on game for pupils to apply taught rules.

This Year 2 teaching resource consists of 79 PowerPoint slides, split into 4 sessions, covering spelling rules for making plural nouns: Adding -s or the general rule (dog - dogs) Adding -es for words ending in -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x or -z Dropping y for -ies if preceded by a consonant (baby - babies), but add -s if preceded by a vowel (boy - boys) Dropping f for -ves (leaf -leaves) First three sessions include: Recapping of ‘nouns’ with a You Tube video link (Noun Song) Introducing concept of ‘plural’ nouns Outlining four main rules for creating plural nouns Explanation of each rule with example Example of rule in practice with root words (animated slides) Carpet activity: children to apply the correct rule to complete the sentences (animated slides). Pupils can express their ideas on paper or whiteboards. Link to ‘Plural Pirates’ interactive game for pupils to apply taught rules. Final session gives pupils the opportunity to recap all four spelling rules using the carpet activity and Plural Pirates game.

This Year 2 teaching resource consists of 82 PowerPoint slides, split into 7 sessions, covering formation of contractions with not, will, is, are, have, had and would. Session 1 – contracted forms of ‘not’ Session 2 – contracted forms of ‘will’ Session 3 – contracted forms of ‘is’ Session 4 – contracted forms of ‘are’ Session 5 – contracted forms of ‘have’ Session 6 - contracted forms of ‘had’ Session 7 - contracted forms of ‘would’ All sessions include: Introduction to Contractions Demonstration of how to use ‘Munch’, ‘Budge’, ‘Mark’ strategy’ to create contracted forms (animated slides) Link to ‘Apostrophe with a Big Appetite’ demonstration tool. Carpet activity 1: children make contracted words using Munch’, ‘Budge’, ‘Mark’ strategy. Carpet activity 2: children to apply contractions to sentences (animated slides)