Year 2 Writing Assessment Activities Pack Warmup Activities

Year 2 – Writing Assessment Activities Pack Warm-up Activities You might want to use one of the warm-up activities before your child starts writing. These are designed to be fun and to develop and hopefully increase your child’s vocabulary and perhaps even help with their spelling. Activity 1: The Fourth Pig’s Home (writing to inform/interest) Activity 2: For Sale Advertisement (writing to inform/persuade) Activity 3: Instructions (writing to inform) There is no time limit for each of these activities. One activity might, for example, be done over a series of days. Children should attempt at least two out of the three activities.

Year 2 – Word Warm-Up • Picture word play • Phonic word searches Use the building site illustration https: //www. pinterest. co. uk/pin/492299802994729733/ to play ‘I Spy with my little eye something beginning with …’ Other activities: • How many things can you see beginning with …? • How many words can you find with two syllables? • Can you find things in the picture beginning with every letter of the alphabet?

Notes for parents These activities are designed to assess what children can do independently. Children will need help in reading and understanding each task. They will benefit from your encouragement whilst they are doing each one, but please ensure that the ideas and the work are the children’s own. We are not expecting or looking for perfection, any mistakes your child may make will help us plan their next steps in learning. If you do help, or support your child in any way please can you make a note so that we know if certain parts have been aided by an adult. E. g. Edna asked how to spell the words underlined and I helped her sound them out/use her word mat OR Edgar needed lots of encouragement to start his invitation so we wrote the first sentence together. More than anything try to allow your child’s imagination to shine through. Ask them, and encourage them, to do the very best they can by motivating them with praise for their efforts. Do feel free to make suggestions to your children but try to phrase them as questions rather than giving them the answer. E. g. Have you used your word mat to help you with your spelling?

Year 2 - Activity 1 – The Fourth Little Pig’s House Draw a picture of the ‘home’ you would build for the fourth Little Pig then label it. • What type of home is it? For example a flat, a bungalow, a cottage, a hut … • What are the different parts of the home? • What are they made from? • What colour are they? • Does your home have a garden? What does it look like? Make sure you label and This is an example of what your work may look like. describe each part of the Add as much information as you can. home. You might want to The home of the fourth Little Pig by … look at homes near where you live to get some ideas or you might want to have fun and just go wild with your imagination. A red door made of glass so you can see through it.

Year 2 - Activity 2 – For Sale advertisement Write a ‘For Sale’ advert trying to persuade the fourth Little Pig to come and live in the home. • Think about how to start your advert and how you might finish it. (You can use the starting sentence below if you want to. ) • What sort of words might make the home sound like the sort of place the fourth Little Pig might want to live in? • What are the ‘best bits’ of the home that you might like to describe in your advert? This is an example of what your work may look like. When you have finished, or you think you have finished, read the advert to someone else in your house: do they think your advert make the Fourth Pig want to live in the home you have designed? Remember you are trying to persuade the ‘Fourth Pig’ to come and live in the home you have designed. For Sale This beautiful, new home is ready to move into today. FOR SALE

Year 2 – Activity – For Sale – Planning Sheet How are you going to start your For Sale advertisement? This beautiful, new home is ready to move into today. (You DO NOT have to use this starting sentence. ) What does the house look like outside? Don’t forget you are writing What does the house look like inside? to tell a the fourth little pig to. try and persuade him to come and live in this home. What else might persuade the pig to live there? Who should the pig contact and how if he wants the house?

Year 2 – Activity 3 - Instructions Write a set of instructions to explain to someone ‘How to frighten a wolf away. ’ Before you start think of the words you might use when you are writing instructions. Think about instructions that you have read or written before. Think about how you are going to start and how you are going to finish. If you are struggling to start use the sentences below. When you have finished, or you think you have finished, read your instructions to someone else to make sure that they make sense and that someone else can understand follow them. This is an example of what your work may look like. Remember you are trying to inform someone. How to frighten a wolf away by … Are you having trouble with wolves? Then look no further these are the instructions you need to read to frighten them away.

Year 3 – Activity – Instructions – Planning Sheet How are you going to start your instructions? What type of words will you need to use? Don’t forget you are writing instructions on. how to frighten a wolf away. How are you going to organise your instructions? How will you finish your instructions?

Writing Checklist Read it aloud to someone else OR ask someone to read it to you. Does it make sense all the way through? Does it have a beginning and an end? Have you remembered who you are writing to and why? Does the writing do what you wanted it to? e. g. entertain, inform, persuade Have you used punctuation where you need it? Have you checked your spelling? Remember you can use your word mat to help you. Is your handwriting the best it can be? Don’t forget to check your writing and. make changes and/or corrections if you need to.