A very popular game to use! The game is called, ‘WHAT AM I?’ You can link this game with ANY topic, e.g. rainforest animals, toys, family members, rooms in a house etc. Just describe what it is you want to describe on 1 card and draw and label what it is you are describing on the other. The example shown is a parrot. You can use the cards in many ways. Here are 2 examples: Stick the answer card on the back of the description card and make a complete set of topic cards. How to play: Deal the cards. Take it in turns to read the description on the card shown to you. If you guess correctly, keep the card. If you guess incorrectly, you don’t get the card. The winner is the person who wins all the cards. Arrange the description cards on 1 side of a table and the answer cards on the other side. Match them up. I’ve attached a complete set of 10 ‘What am I?’ cards to print out and use. If you want a bigger set of cards, just print off a few more. The card template is fully editable so you can design them on a computer and print them off when you’re finished … this makes them look VERY professional. Your class will love this. They might even become more popular than TOP TRUMPS.

Ask your children to write a story about being shipwrecked. This activity could be linked to the story of ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, an island topic, feeling isolated and alone OR just taught as a discrete lesson. Attached is a helpful planning guide and template. The planning guide contains questions to consider, the layout of the story and some useful vocabulary. Fully editable and designed to make writing appealing to a younger audience. 2 pages. Fully editable.

A PowerPoint stating features of writing. Slides 3 to 9: Deeper Features. Slides 10 to 13: Surface Features. Fully editable.

A fully editable and effective booklet to follow when teaching WRITING TO EXPLAIN. Page 1: Easy things for children to explain. Page 2: More tricky things for children to explain. Page 3: Writing to explain - writing guide/format to follow. Page 4: Writing to explain - writing frame (to complete).

Title of text: A Noise in the Night A great text to use if you are teaching speech marks. Fully editable.

A 3-page homophones activity booklet. Suitable for 5 - 7 years. Fully editable.

Speech bubbles (large and small) to cut out and use in lessons. 5 pages. Fully editable.

20 sentences to complete using the correct preposition ‘on’ phrase. All answers provided and fully editable. Ideal for 7+

qu words. Ideal for younger learners. 1 worksheet. Answers provided. Fully editable.

ng words. Ideal for younger learners. 1 worksheet. Answers provided. Fully editable.

Ideal for younger learners. 1 worksheet. Answers provided. Fully editable.

WHY USE A KNOWLEDGE RATING SCALE (KRS)? It’s a great way to introduce new VOCABULARY at the start of a lesson or unit of work. It’s a great way to assess your student’s knowledge of vocabulary. It’s a great way to identify your learning groups for a lesson or unit of work. . INSTRUCTIONS: . Just type in (or get the children to write) the vocabulary you want them to learn. The example shown is for a ‘Moving and Growing’ topic in science. Ask the children to complete the table indicating the following: I have seen or heard of this word. I can say this word. I can tell you what this word means. I can use this word in a sentence. I don’t know this word. Children who tick the last box indicating, ‘I don’t know this word’ can become your focus group. Fully editable.

Do your student’s have difficulty using correct verb tenses in their speech and writing? This task will help you student’s practise saying and writing sentences correctly. Student Task: Record yourself saying 8 sentences. Each sentence must begin with a different sentence starter (listed on the worksheet). Choose your favourite 3 sentences, type them out and email them to … Very simple but effective. If you have a listening station (or more than 1) in school, record the children and play it back to them. Identify their mistakes and re-record. You can use a variety of recording devices - phone, iPad etc. 1 worksheet. Fully editable.

These worksheets can be used to support the Y3 Nelson Spelling Scheme - Book 3, Units 17 and 18. Unit 17 Spellings: young, group, double, trouble, enough, echo, chemist, chemical, scene, scenery, science, scientific. Unit 18 Spellings: vein, reins, weight, freight, eight, eighth, sleigh, neighbour, they, obey, Egypt, pyramid, woman, women. Fully editable. 4 pages. Age: Year 3 students.

Can your student’s spot the spelling and punctuation errors in this Roman army passage? 8 spelling mistakes and 12 punctuation errors to find. Answers provided and fully editable. 2 pages in total.

Onomatopoeia Words - Animal Sounds Resource 1: Worksheet - Fill in the animal’s name and the ‘sound verb’ it makes. Resource 2: A 6-slided PowerPoint showing an onomatopoeia ‘seaside’ poem. Quick reminder: An onomatopoeia is a word that actually looks like the sound it makes, and we can almost hear those sounds as we read. Some examples of onomatopoeia are: slam, splash, bam, babble, warble, gurgle, mumble, and belch. Both resources are fully editable.

3 fully editable colour poetry resources: Resource 1: Student’s draw or write something that is a specific colour. Resource 2: Words associated with a specific colour (reference sheet). Resource 3: Colour poem writing template. Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability).

This 53-slide PowerPoint covers the following: What are instructions? Verbal instructions. Time connectives. Written Instructions. Imperative (Bossy) Verbs. Instructional Writing Examples. Instructional Writing Task. Writing Frames. Editing Instructions. Ideal for 6+ and fully editable.

Fantastic Mr Fox - CONVERSATIONS 2 worksheets. Focus: To write out a conversation. Worksheet 1: Deciding what to steal. Mr Fox and his wife are talking about what they are going to steal from Boggis, Bunce or Bean! Have a go at writing their conversation. Worksheet 2: How to KILL Mr Fox. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are talking about their plans to KILL Mr Fox! Have a go at writing their conversation. Fully editable.