Year 2 - Grammar rules

Boost your Year 2 pupils’ SPaG skills with fun outdoor lessons on homophones, contractions, and compound words. Through active games, hunts, and hands-on challenges, children will confidently recognise, form, and apply key spelling and grammar rules in context.

Lesson Plans

Forming compound words

Engage your Year 2 class with this exciting outdoor SPaG lesson, empowering them to actively form and understand compound words through hands-on activities.

Learning objective:

To form compound words.

Forming contractions

Empower your Year 2 class to master contractions with this engaging outdoor SPaG lesson, as they actively explore how apostrophes replace missing letters in words. Through hands-on word pairing and a dynamic beanbag game at “contraction stations,” pupils will confidently form and recognise contractions.

Learning objective:

To use an apostrophe to form contractions.

Recognising homophones

Enable your Year 2 class to master homophones with this engaging outdoor SPaG lesson, as they actively recognise and spell words that sound alike but have different meanings. Through a dynamic hunt for hidden pairs, pupils will confidently understand and use homophones in sentences.

Learning objective:

To recognise and spell homophones.

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