Year TwoHome Learning Pack 6

Reading and Grammar

These slides will help support the ten different reading and grammar activities

on the home learning grid.

Can you write two sentences to describe these pictures,

one in the past tense and one in the present tense?

Example answers are on the next slide.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/z3dbg82

Past and present…watch the BBCbitesize videos then have a go at the activities!

Can you write two sentences to describe these pictures,

one in the past tense and one in the present tense?

One sentence must use a past tense verb and one must use a present tense verb. For example: In the past, photos were black and white not colour. Now children play with colourful toys and wear bright clothes.

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Can you catch the butterflies needed to spell the verb in this sentence?

Is this sentence written in past or present tense? Look at the verb to help you

decide.

I ______ to bring my P.E. kit to school so I can’t do P.E.

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Are these sentences written in the past or present tense?

Tick the old book or the modern robot to choose which you think it is.

How do you know?

I ride my bike around the field.

I knew the answer to the question.

I wear my sunglasses in the summer.

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Can you sort the sentences into past

and present tense?

The past tense sentences should go in

the rubbish bin and the present tense

sentences in the treasure chest.

Can you think of a sentence of your

own that you could put into the

treasure chest and the rubbish bin?

Emily solved

the puzzle.

She plays the

trombone.

He wants to go to ballet class.

Hamza spells words easily.

I watched the

parade go by.

I had fun at the fair.

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These sentences have been mixed up. Can you put

them in the right order? Is each one in the present or

past tense?

school the Maya bus yesterday. caught to

show am TV. my favourite watching on I

I, it woke was when raining. up

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Grammar and Punctuation

Which kind of punctuation mark would complete the sentences

below?

Can we go to the beach please

I would like to go to the seaside

What a beautiful day it is

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Grammar and Punctuation

Where should a comma go in the sentence

below?

Tick one box.

My favourite colours are yellow red and blue.

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Grammar and Punctuation

Lilly went swimming she swam under water.

The line written above should be two sentences but

it is missing a full stop and a capital letter.

Where should they go? Add them in.

What happens next sadly, I don’t know.

The line written above should be two sentences but

it is missing a question mark and a capital letter.

Where should they go? Add them in.

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Grammar and PunctuationWhich word would complete the sentence below?

I hope ________ we will get fish and chips on the beach today.

Choose one:

• when• if• that• because

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Can you describe what each of these people is feeling by looking

at their expressions and adding the suffix –ment to the underlined

word in their speech bubble?

Can you write a sentence using each of the new nouns you have created?

a________

This picture amazes

me!

I agree!

I know I will

achievemy goals!

This cold water will

refresh me!

r____________

Why does my dad always embarrass

me?

I feel content.

c__________

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These children have been given special certificates for showing different qualities

throughout the year. Can you work out what each quality is by adding the suffix

–ness to the underlined word on their certificate?

Can you write a certificate for someone in your class, using a noun that ends in –

ness?

For always being very helpful, Lara is given the

certificate forh__________.

For being brave and bold,

Krystian is given the

certificate for……………….….

For always being very

helpful, Lara is given the

certificate for ………………………

For always being

smiley and cheerful,

Derek is given the

certificate for

……………………….

For being a kind

friend, Chantelle is

given the

certificate for

……………………

For being lovely and

calm, Aiden is given

the certificate for

……………………..

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Think and write….• Look at this picture. What words and

sentences does it make you think of? We are going to write a short piece based on the picture, using the following pattern of sentences:

Sentence 1 Write using the present tense

(the verb should end with ‘ing’)

Sentence 2 Use an ‘ment’ suffix word

Sentence 3 Include an adverb

(an adverb describes the verb)

Sentence 4 Extend using the conjunction ‘or’

Read through your passage carefully – does it include everything we are looking for?

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Think and write…. Here’s an example of what you could have thought and written…

There is a hermit crab creeping along the sand.

I gasped in amazement when I saw the crab.

Cautiously, the crab poked its head out of the shell.

Does the crab look dangerous or is it harmless?

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Reading a pictureLook at this picture and then talk about these questions.

• What time of day is it? How do you know?

• Do you think the child is wearing the right clothes? Explain why you think that.

• Where might she be?

• What is she holding? What else might be helpful for her to have?

• How do you think she is feeling? Explain why you think that.

Try to use the conjunctions because, when, if, so and but in your answers.

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What happens next?

Look at these pictures. Talk about what might happen next.

Why do you think that?

What clues are there as to what might happen?

Write a sentence for each, to say what you think happens next.

Try to use the conjunctions (extending) words but, or, that in your sentences.

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A child is looking for something they’ve lost…Look at the picture and then read the questions. You will need to use your inference skills.

• What might the child have lost?

• How might she have lost it?

• How might the girl be feeling?

• Where is she looking?

• Why are there other children there?

• What might she say to the other children?

• What might they say to her?

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Draw a pictureRead the sentences and draw what is being described.

• The long, red pier stretched out into the blue sea. Right at the end there was a small funfair with a rollercoaster.

• A family walked along the pier towards the funfair. The young girl in a red and white striped dress, was eating candy floss on a stick.

• It was a bright sunny day with just a few white, fluffy clouds floating slowly across the sky.

• On the golden, sandy beach a man wearing a white cap, threw a ball for his black and white dog to chase.

• Two girls, laughing and shouting, were tightly holding the string of their colourful flag which was fluttering high up in the sky.

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The outing!Read the writing below and then answer the questions. You will need to use your inference skills.

“But I didn’t do anything.” Alex muttered under his breath as he stomped off to the car.

Alex got the blame for lots of things because he was the oldest and should know better. There was sand all over the

picnic lunch and as he opened the car door, his two brothers ran out into the waves, laughing and shouting.

Why do you think Alex is upset? How do you know? Can you think of a word that you could use instead of ‘stomped’? Why did he mutter

‘under his breath’? What does this mean? Where might they be? Why didn’t he go swimming with his brothers? Why were they laughing and shouting?

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