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SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable
Resources to teach the spelling rules for: Adding ing, ed, er, est and y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
POWERPOINTS
Adding suffixes to one syllable cvc words: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, explaining the spelling rule, and the rule for words ending in c and x. It ends with a quick write activity to add ing or ed and er, est or y to different root words.
Quick write - Adding ed and doubling
Quick write - Adding ing and doubling
Recap of the three suffix rules (includes adding suffixes to words ending in y following a consonant, and words ending in e following a consonant, plus the doubling rule)
Quick write activities show firstly the the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added.
ACTIVITIES
Words ending in a consonant then e matrix: to fill in
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes and doubling: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words
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SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y
3 powerpoint lessons looking at how to add -es to nouns and verbs, with activities, planning and word list.
ADDING -ES TO NOUNS:
POWERPOINTS
Adding es to nouns ending in y
Plurals recap - adding es
ACTIVITIES
Adding es to nouns ending in y worksheet
Singular and plural cards
ADDING -ES TO VERBS:
POWERPOINT
Adding es to verbs ending in y
ACTIVITIES
Adding es to verbs ending in y worksheet
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding es to nouns and verbs ending in y- An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words ending in y.
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SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Homophones and near homophones
Resources to teach a variety of homophones and near homophones
POWERPOINT
Introduction to homophones: Explains why the English language has so many homophones
Year 2 Homophones with pictures: Includes be/bee, been/been, bare/bear, blew/blue, for/four, here/hear, knew/new, night/knight, know/no, one/won, pair/pear, plain/plane, quite/quiet, red/read, right/write, sea/see, where/wear, so/sew/saw, some/sum, son/sun, tail/tale, their/they're/there, through/threw, to/too/two, week/weak and which/witch
Writing sentences with homophones: Activity for sentence writing
The following powerpoints look at individual pairs/trios of homophones, explaining the differences, and giving sentences at the end to choose which one is the correct word:
Homophones they're their there
Homophones hear and here
Homophones son and sun
Homophones to two and too
Homophones be and bee
ACTIVITIES
Homophone cards with pictures
Homophone cards (just words)
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words
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SPaG Year 2 Word: -er and -est in adjectives and -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
2 powerpoint lessons and a worksheet:
THE USE OF LY TO TURN ADJECTIVES INTO ADVERBS
POWERPOINT
Using ly to turn adjectives into adverbs: Explains what adverbs are and how to make them by adding ly to adjectives.Gives a list of words to add ly to.
ACTIVITY
Making adverbs worksheet: Writing sentences with adverbs
USING THE SUFFIXES ER AND EST IN ADJECTIVES
POWERPOINT
Suffixes er and est as comparatives: Explains how they change the meaning of words. Gives a list of words to add the suffixes to and think of sentences with them in.
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SPaG Year 3 & 4 Spelling: Recap of the rules for adding suffixes
5 powerpoint lessons for a recap of the rules learnt in Y2 for adding suffixes to different types of words.
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SPaG Year 3 & 4 Spelling: Possessive apostrophe with plural words
POWERPOINT:Explains what they are and how to use them then finishes with an activity to reword sentences and put the apostrophe in the correct place.
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES:
Possessive apostrophes plurals worksheet
PLURAL POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHES POSTERS
A set of posters for display
TEACHER RESOURCES:
Adaptable outline plan
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SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Use of the hyphen
A powerpoint lesson and a jigsaw activity to teach the spelling guidelines:
Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one.
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SPaG Year 5 Word Grammar: Verb prefixes
A set of powerpoints and activities to teach verb prefixes such as dis-, de-, mis-, over- and re-, with a recap of previously learnt prefixes.
POWERPOINTS:
Prefixes un- dis- and mis-: Looks at the 3 prefixes; how they change the meanings of words; and words they can be added to.
Changing words into negatives with prefixes: un, de, anti, dis and il
Prefix meanings: 9 prefixes and their meanings
Prefixes dis, de, mis, over, re and pre: Looks at each prefix and words containing them individually, so one can be taught per session.
PRINTABLE FILES (PDF):
Prefix list and meanings
Prefix word list dis de mis over & re (word file)
Wordsearch x 6 (un-, dis-, de-, mis-, pre- and re-)
Change the paragraph to the opposite meaning using prefixes worksheet
Definitions worksheets x 4
Definitions matching cards
Extension work - more prefixes x 3 worksheets
Negatives
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Phase 1 Aspect 3 Body percussion: Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.
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Hansel and Gretel Fairy tale activity pack- powerpoint story, display and activities
A story in powerpoint, sequencing cards, heading, lettering, retelling pages, story sequencing and characters for role play.
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Guy Fawkes, Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot - 2 powerpoints, 12 display files and 15 activities
A powerpoint story of Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot and why we celebrate Bonfire Night, with classroom activities to print and display resources.
Guy Fawkes - Two versions; one for KS1 and one for KS2. It details Guy Fawkes' life, and how he became involved with the other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot; it explains how he was caught, and why people now celebrate Bonfire Night.
ACTIVITIES:
Bonfire night acrostic poem
Bonfire Night topic cover
Fire border for displaying work
Fireworks border
Gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes sequencing
Gunpowder plot black and white pictures (for colouring/display)
Gunpowder plot cards
Gunpowder plot word mat
Guy Fawkes topic cover
Letter to Mounteagle
Newspaper report x 4 - Guy Fawkes, The arrest and The conspirators
Blank scroll
DISPLAY
A-Z Flame lettering
Bonfire Night banner
A4 title
Large lettering Bonfire Night
Fireworks border for displays
Confession letter of Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes title
Main conspirators poster
Portraits of James I and Guy Fawkes
Posters - Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot
The Fireworks code
The Gunpowder plot pictures
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Introducing non-fiction books - Lessons and headings - features of information texts
A set of resources to introduce children to non-fiction books.
The powerpoints:
explain and demonstrate alphabetical order
show how questions are used for information
demonstrate the layout and features of a non-fiction book
give an example of a page from a non-fiction book
provide opportunities for children to think of captions
show the difference between fiction and non-fiction sentences.
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The Magic Box activities and worksheets
This set contains activities to print, and a powerpoint containing visuals to look at whilst reading the poem.
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Alphabet / Letters, digraphs and trigraphs A5 flashcards / display - 72 graphemes
This set contains all the letters of the alphabet, consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs and trigraphs in the Y1 spelling appendix.
The cards are in pdf format for you to print out as many times as you like. They can be used as flashcards, for display or for group or individual use.
There are 2 cards per A5 page. Each card contains pictures and a list of words, including the relevant common exception words for Y1. The single letter sounds contain the matching keyboard letter so they can help children on the keyboard.
There are 3 separate files:
PHONIC CARDS 1
26 letters of the alphabet plus ch sh th and wh
PHONICS CARDS 2
All the graphemes identified in the Y1 spelling appendix
PHONICS CARDS 3
Extra graphemes from the Letters and Sounds document ( ff ll ss zz ck ey ng and ure)
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SPaG Year 3 & 4 Spelling: The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words
Resources to teach the spelling guidelines for the /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words.
POWERPOINT:
I spelt y:Explains the spelling rule then gives examples of words containing y. It ends with a spelling activity.
WORKSHEETS:
Look write cover check sheet containing spellings
i spelt y word cards: for games and activities
TEACHER RESOURCES in word:
A list of words to use
Spelling planning: An outline plan that can be adapted and added to.
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Huge Christmas pack - cards, colouring, display, activities and powerpoints
A bumper set of interactive whiteboard, display and printable crafts and activities, suitable for KS1 or lower KS2. The pack includes:
CHRISTMAS / NATIVITY POWERPOINTS:
5 Little Reindeer
Can you solve the problems for Santa - 15 problem solving questions (Suitable for Y1, but you could adapt it for other years)
Christmas around the World - How Christmas is celebrated in 12 other countries
Christmas Carols - Words for Silent Night; The First Noel; We Three Kings; Away in a Manger
Christmas Songs - Words for Frosty the Snowman; Jingle Bells; Must be Santa; Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer; We wish you a Merry Christmas
Christmas Facts - Interesting facts about Christmas
Jingle Bells - The song
The Nativity Story
The Three Kings poem
Twinkle Twinkle
Winter Poetry
Who wants to be a millionaire Christmas quiz
CHRISTMAS HEADINGS:
The Three Wise Men / Christmas / The Nativity
A-Z LETTERING - Includes all upper and lower cases, numbers and punctuation.
Baubles / Christmas / Reindeer / Snowflake / Snowmen / Christmas Stockings.
NATIVITY WORD MAT
Contains 27 words with accompanying pictures
CHRISTMAS CARDS:
A set of 12 different designs for the children to colour, paint or decorate.
Each card contains ‘Merry Christmas’ lettering, which can be coloured in; and a black and white image of either:
Three Wise men / Baby Jesus / Baubles / Bells / Reindeer / Santa / Star / Stocking / Tree /Tree and doves / Tree scene.
All you need to do is print them out and let the children choose a design
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES:
A range of Christmas activities to make and do
ACTIVITES:
Christmas Alphabet / Christmas code breaker / Christmas tree poem / Christmas wordsearch - 3 different versions.
FOR MAKING LISTS:
Santa list x3 versions / Santa beard list / Santa star list / Tree list
FOR WRITING A LETTER TO SANTA:
Santa letter 1 / Santa letter 2
A4 WRITING SHEETS:
Christmas border / Elves and lights border / Santa border / Star border / Stocking border
PRINTABLE COLOURING ACTIVITIES:
Christmas colouring - 13 various pictures / Nativity colouring - 12 pictures / Elves colouring - 7 pictures / Snowmen colouring - 6 pictures / Reindeer colouring - 7 pictures / Santa colouring - 10 pictures / Plus 7 assorted sheets with accompanying title to colour.
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Year 2 Spelling SPag Adding ing, ed, er and est to a root word ending in a consonant then y
This set of 8 resources is to help children learn the rules for adding suffixes.
It contains the following files:
Adding suffixes to words ending in y: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, pointing out the differences.
Quick write - Adding ed to verbs ending in y
Quick write - Adding ing to verbs ending in y
Quick write - Adding er to words ending in y
Quick write - Adding est to words ending in y
(Quick write activities show firstly the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added.)
ACTIVITIES
Words ending in a consonant then y matrix: to fill in
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes to words ending in y- An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words ending in y.
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Grapheme pack: ai words
This pack contains 7 resources: A PowerPoint lesson for children to write words containing the new grapheme, 4 differentiated worksheets, picture and word cards and a large flashcard. The font is Sassoon infant, with an additional pack in Elementary / Primer print.
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EYFS / SEND Prepositions posters
This set contains 30 different prepositions which each print onto one A4 page. They can be also be printed as A5 and used for flashcards.
Also included is an A4 title, plus banner / lettering ‘Prepositions’, plus matching A-Z chick lettering to personalise your display.
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SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Common Exception words
Spelling resources to teach the statutory requirements in Appendix 1 of the English curriculum:
COMMON EXCEPTION WORDS
POWERPOINT RESOURCES: The following PowerPoint lessons contain groups of words with similar spellings. Each grapheme-phoneme correspondence that is new to the children (depending upon phonics programme used) is introduced and explained. The children then are given opportunities to read and then write the words.
CEW 1 – door poor floor
CEW 2 – find kind mind etc
CEW 3 – most only both etc
CEW 4 – after fast last
CEW 5 – every, everybody, even
CEW 6 –great break steak
CEW 7 –move prove improve
CEW 8 – sure sugar
CEW 9 - who whole
CEW 10 - any many
CEW 11 - could would should
The following PowerPoint lessons contain individual common exception words. There are examples of different strategies the children can use for remembering how to spell the words, such as using mnemonics, saying the word as it is spelt, using the look write cover check method and highlighting the tricky part. Each strategy is demonstrated visually.
CEW Spelling strategies PEOPLE
CEW Spelling strategies BEAUTIFUL
CEW Spelling strategies AGAIN
CEW Spelling strategies BECAUSE
CEW Spelling strategies BUSY
CEW Spelling strategies CHRISTMAS
CEW Spelling strategies CLOTHES
CEW Spelling strategies EYE
CEW Spelling strategies HALF
CEW Spelling strategies HOUR
CEW Spelling strategies MR & MRS
CEW Spelling strategies PARENTS
CEW Spelling strategies PRETTY
CEW Spelling strategies WATER
WORKSHEETS:
Spelling activity sheets - A variety of pdf sheets that can be used for different spelling activities. They include:
Acrostic poems
Bubble words
Colourful words
Cut out words
Look write cover check spelling sheet
Rainbow spellings
Shape words
Silly Sentences
Spelling with both hands
Stories with spellings
Word search with spellings
Words in words
Writing a poem
Writing fun
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Common Exception Words: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words