Part 2

GRAMMAR

At Eastwards Consortium, our focus is primarily on educating and developing the next generation of our society. This section showcases off our ‘Wellcomm Primary’ activity set, and below you will find a set of tabs which depict these tasks further. If you find children are struggling with a task or, on the other hand, passing with flying colours, indications and suggestions are proposed in each section to ensure you keep all children challenged and on-task as much as possible.
To view the various parts of each activity, simply click on the respective tab and watch it magically appear!

ACTIVITY 1

TO USE THE SUFFIXES OF -ER AND -EST

MAIN ACTIVITY

  1. Show the child the following pictures:

2. Point to the first picture and say: ‘This bag is big.’ Then point to the next picture: ‘This bag is bigger.’ Finally point to the last picture and say: ‘This bag is the biggest.’

3. Repeat this with different pictures.

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?

  • Provide the child with some adjectives that can be used to describe animals: friendly, fast, quiet and noisy. The child then needs to use them in a sentence using either –er and –est.  For example, ‘This dog is the friendliest of them all.’

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?

  • Use shorter and more familiar adjectives to describe.

ACTIVITY 2

USING IRREGULAR PLURALS

MAIN ACTIVITY

  • Use the following pictures to talk about irregular plurals:

‘Here is one foot’

‘Here are two feet.’

‘Here is a man’

‘Here are three men’

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?

  • Ask the child to list different regular and irregular plurals.

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?

  • Offer the pupil choices. For example, ‘Is it lots of men or lots of mans?’

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Try these online matching games –

https://matchthememory.com/tags/irregular%20plurals – Can you find the correct plural? https://www.tinytap.com/activities/g2m47/play/irregular-plurals

Ski game (you will need to set up a free account with Education.com) – https://www.education.com/game/irregular-plural-nouns-skirace/

ACTIVITY 3

USING THE SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTION 'BECAUSE' IN A SENTENCE

MAIN ACTIVITY

  • Ask the child: ‘Why is the footballer celebrating?’
  • Model the correct answer to the child: ‘The footballer celebrated because he scored a goal.’

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?

  • Ask the child ‘why’ questions about classroom topics. For example, for the topic of Nelson Mandela, ask the child: ‘Why did Nelson Mandela want to end apartheid?’ Child to respond ‘Nelson Mandela wanted to end apartheid because he wanted equality.’

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?

  • Show the child a cause and effect picture:
  • Ask the child: ‘Why is the woman running in the park?’
  • Support the child to answer correctly: ‘The woman was running in the park because she was going for a jog.’