6 cards / 12 pairs of everyday Latin terms used in English.

3 page document providing a writing stimulus for “five senses” descriptive writing. Students are given the choice of four landscapes; have prompts for each sense and two differentiated exemplar paragraphs to help support their writing. This is an ideal resource for those needing to go beyond basic adjectives and provide sensory detail in their writing.

5 colourful worksheets that provide a defintion, examples and exercises relating to subject, predicate and objects; simple, compound and complex sentences and adjectives.

4 colourful worksheets where students have to match the alliterative sound. As many students have discovered, it’s not as easy as it seems : ) This is an excellent resource for consolidating phonic or alliterative knowledge. It’s also an ideal lesson starter / quick plenary activity when teaching sound devices as part of a poetry unit. Bonus: 2 worksheets to revise antonyms. A quick, fun activity where students match up the picture that means the opposite word.

Paragraph structure is explained in this 2 page Word document. Topic, Evidence, Explanation and Comment are defined and exemplar responses are created for each, showing students how a main body paragraph is constructed. Originally designed for NCEA Level 3 English (Visual Text study) Text: Joe Wright’s Atonement

Dinosaur themed visual sentence building cards. Students will need to include an auxillary verb, possessive noun and a preposition (or more depending on the length of the sentence.) This is a neat confidence boosting activity for early literacy. (Boys who sometimes struggle with reading fluency and polysyllabic words seem to engage with dinosaurs really well!) 8 who cards 8 what cards 8 where cards. Students are free to mix and match but must use at least one card from each colour group to make the sentence.

5 colourful worksheets containing commonly misspelled words. Students have to choose the correct spelling to match the picture. A neat starter activity. This resource can be easily paired with teaching a specific spelling rule.

50 flashcards displaying words that are commonly misspelled and are the exception to a spelling rule.

6 worksheets looking at when noun need ‘es’ or ‘ies’ to make them plural. Answers inlcuded.

20 picture cards depicting a metaphor / analogy involving the heart. 20 written expressions. A fun way to encourage students to think about figurative language and how often we use it in everyday speech.

25 cards (train and 24 trucks) This resource works as a classroom display and a group ‘hangman’ style activity. Students can then use the trucks as a word bank for creative writing.

40 flashcards depicting a Halloween themed image. Students have to identify the image and insert the missing vowels in order to spell the word correctly. Vocabulary and spelling activity.

50 animal cards and 34 verb cards. Students have to match up the animal to a verb or action they think that animal performs. This activity reinforces the alphabet, general knowledge and an understanding of verbs.

29 general literacy skills questions such as identifying and defining simple, compound and complex sentences; defining types of nouns and conjunctions; defining smilies; regular verbs; definition of a stanza and parts of speech. A fun group activity or starter activity. Answers included. Aimed at ks2 - 3 junior levels.

Match the ice cream to its correct cone by matching the letter the animal begins with to the picture. A fun literacy game for pupils learning to recognise initial sounds.

6 worksheets featuring soft ‘c’ words. A fun colouring activity for students who are gaining confidence in distinguishing between hard and soft c sounds. PDF file.

40 words that contain silent letters. 2 PDF files 1 file contains the 40 words with a missing letter. 2nd file contains 40 letter tiles that fit into into the words. Students have to place the correct tile into the word. Once cut out and laminated, ideal group activity for early literacy learners.

32 picture card game. 20 cards contain pictures of items beginning with ‘st’. 12 cards are random items. An individual or group game for students to develop their phonic sound awareness. A list of the items is included for your convenience.

Confusing words match up activity where students have to match the word with the correct ‘picture’ interpretation of the word. It presents an additional activity to matching homophones. Students have to decide which picture matches each word, focusing on the meaning of the homophones in order to connect the word to the picture. An easy extension activity asks students to make a sentence out of each word / picture match up they find. 68 cards. 34 words and 34 picture cards.

2 activities on persuasive or rhetorical techniques. Cut and paste activity (answers included) Worksheet match up (answers included)