A simple set of worksheets focussed on The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge that help your child practice their writing skills including captions and speech marks to help them build up to writing a newspaper report.

A set of simple worksheets based around the Traction Man books by Mini Grey which focus on reacting to images from the text, learning the meaning of new vocabulary from the text as well as lots of writing and description practice too!

A set of simple worksheets linked to the book How to Find Gold by Vivianne Schwarz to help children explore the text, work on adjectives and write full and descriptive sentences based around the text.

A simple set of resources to help children begin to explore the book The Dark by Lemony Snicket.

A simple worksheet where different images can be edited in for children to have opportunities to record their inferences, predictions and ask questions about illustrations from a text. A quick and simple way of recording some reading evidence for Y2 readers skills too!

A set of simple resources to help children begin to describe settings and characters as well as comparing a character from this text with another one from a different text.

Practice reading and recognising some of the most common spelling rules and common exception words children might be asked to spell independently in end of year assessments. Can children use their proof-reading skills to identify the correct spelling in these mini spelling quizzes?

Do your Year 2s complete Special Agent Training to help them work through the end of KS1 assessments? Help your children tackle some of the SATS style questions they may face when they complete the Arithmetic SAT paper by showing them methods to help them work out the answers to some worked examples from past papers. As Special Agents, this training is an important part of ensuring the children feel ready for anything! These powerpoints work through the question types, and work up to the trickier questions types.

Are your children preparing for the Year 1 Phonics Screening check? Help your class practice reading real and nonsense words by playing along with the Planet Phonics videos at home (original Powerpoints available on TES shop) and then ask the children to sort a sample of the words from these videos into real and nonsense words. Want the children to practice a little at home? Head to my Phonics Playlist on my class Youtube channel - Mrs G’s Little Lessons.

A set of simple worksheets focused on The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson that help practice using description, unjumbling sentences as well as writing captions based on key events from the text.

A set of simple resources to help children begin to understand how to sequence sentences and use description to improve their indpendent writing.

A set of work sheets to help children plan and write a diary entry as well as developing their use of similes to help them be more descriptive in their independent writing.

Do your class do Special Agent Training to help them prepare for the end of KS1 SATS? Check out this quick and simple training video with some examples of past SAT questions to help them revise and consolidate their knowledge. Wish your class could practice for their SATS at home in an easy and simple way? Why not check out my Special Agent Training video playlist on my Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDNY9D-fYJHxt0_pSebPUklWdVeFYWUZs

A set of simple worksheets to help your child feel more confident recognising the correct spelling of some of the Y1 Common Exception Words - how quickly can the children circle the correct spelling in each set of 6? Want to send these home or ask the children to play along at home? Check out the teaching videos that accompany these worksheets on my Youtube Channel here: Y1 CEW video 4: https://youtu.be/K7LHZSiO8UU Y1 CEW video 7: https://youtu.be/WDCiUAwK-hQ Y1 CEW video 8: https://youtu.be/HUEcxGnR1Fg Y1 CEW video 10: https://youtu.be/9AbFDpcVqyM Y1 CEW video 12: https://youtu.be/5un1ywTUzbk Y1 CEW video 14: https://youtu.be/eYJrgQRwakk

Do you children complete Special Agent training to help them prepare for the Ks1 SATS? Check out these quick and simple spelling quizzes that feature 10 words based on spelling rules and common exception words from past SAT papers. Can you spot the correct spelling out of the set of 4 choices? Can you spell the word before the choices come up? Are you a Special Agent Speller? There’s only 1 way to find out! Wish the children could do a little practice at home? Why not check out these teaching videos that accompany these powerpoints on my channel here? Happy for these links to be shared on platforms such as Seesaw etc too. https://youtu.be/IkC8V-sFylo https://youtu.be/WjNCRHM9Fzo https://youtu.be/mZdy4JsRwr4 https://youtu.be/bAdVoDby4Zk

Do your children complete Special Agent Training to help them feel prepared for the end of KS1 SATS? Check out these secret training missions - this missions helps children practice answering a mix of past SAT reading comprehension questions. Wish your children could do a little more practice at home and looking for an easy way for them to do so? Why not send the link home to the accompanying teaching video and let Mrs G help out at home? https://youtu.be/nSaU2WC-1A4

Do your children train to be Special Agents in order to prepare for the end of Y2 SATS? Check out these past SPaG SAT questions in this quick and interactive quiz. Wish you could send this video home to let your children have a practice at home? Why not send home the link to the teaching video from my Youtube Channel ? https://youtu.be/ZXR3K7yTo1g

Help your class become confident reading, recognising and spelling all the Year 2 Common Exception words in this collection of Unjumble Me Quizzes. The quizzes start by showing the children the words in the set and asking them to have a go at writing the word that is hiding before then showing mixed up letters that spell one of the words. Can the children guess and spell the Common Exception word before the answer is revealed?

Practice reading and recognising the tricky words from Phases 2,3,4 and 5 using this simple quiz that encourages the children to correctly identify specific words first before then asking children to identify the correct spelling of each word. Simple and colourful quizzes that help embed these words into their long term memory.