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A Letter to Father Christmas - KS1

KS1 English programme of study - Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

Year 1 Pupils should be taught to:

begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark

Year 2 Pupils should be taught to use:

familiar and new punctuation correctly including full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks and commas for lists

KS1 English programme of study - Writing - composition

Year 1 Pupils should be taught to write sentences by:

saying out loud what they are going to write about
composing a sentence orally before going to write it
sequencing sentences to form short narratives
re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense

Year 2 Pupils should be taught to:

plan or saying out loud what they are going to write about
Re-read to check their writing makes sense

This handy festive English writing teaching resource covers all the KS1 curriculum objectives listed above through the activity of writing a letter to Father Christmas. Content includes:

Using capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
The function of verbs in a sentence
Ordering words in a sentence
Using commas to separate items in a list
Activities to support the teaching of the above objectives with 5 accompanying worksheets
3 differentiated letter to Father Christmas templates

'A Letter to Father Christmas - KS1' is fully editable allowing teachers to adapt the resource, if needed, to suit each class they teach.

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