Rs/E3.3

Use punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding
(a) Understand that different punctuation marks are used for different purposes and know their names, including: speech marks to mark off what a speaker says from the surrounding text; commasto separate words in a list or parts of a sentence, bullet or numbered points to make lists or series of instructions clearer
(b) Understand that punctuation relates to sentence structure and text type, to help the reader make sense of the written text, and apply this understanding in their own reading

Nouns

A wonderful PowerPoint all about common and proper nouns, and when to use capital letters.
Imogen was inspired to create this from the ‘virtual shopping bag’ idea in Jo Williams’ ‘Shopping Bag Capital Letters’ and from Margaret Lagoyianni’s ‘We need to use Capital Letters’ (see below).

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
English
Ws/L1.3
Ws/E3.4
Ws/E2.4
Ws/E2.3
Rs/L1.2
Rs/E3.3
Rs/E2.4

Literacy E3-L1 word & sentence level revision

Designed as an end of year activity for an Entry 3 – Level 1 literacy class at Abingdon and Witney College. Use as individual worksheets, a group class exercise, paired work, homework or a quiz. Most questions are based on ‘Words of the Week’: these are words that had been focused upon in various classes throughout the year (see below).

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Adult Literacy Rs/L1.1 Use implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge
Rs/E3.3
Rw/E3.5
Rw/L1.3
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Buyer Beware!

Another resource in our popular Chomwell Green series (see below). A lovely shared text with a touch of humour! Created and used by a literacy volunteer during a series of lessons on descriptive writing. Text can be used for a multitude of activities but is particularly good for work on prefixes and suffixes, and punctuation. Best enlarged to A3 to allow for annotation and highlighting. Includes suggested exercises and teaching ideas.

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
English
Rw/L1.3
Rw/E3.5
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
Rs/L1.2
Rs/E3.3
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
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