Primary Texts provides resources to help support the teaching of reading, writing and speaking and listening at primary level. Resources are flexible, adaptable, easy to use and meet the requirements of the National Curriculum.
Primary Texts provides resources to help support the teaching of reading, writing and speaking and listening at primary level. Resources are flexible, adaptable, easy to use and meet the requirements of the National Curriculum.
The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test paper frequently features questions linked to relative clauses. This PPT based lesson will help Year 6 students revise this area. The 9-slide PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a mini- assessment containing five SATs style questions linked to relative clauses is included with an accompanying answer .
Great for teaching performance poetry! Contains five poetry lessons based on classic poems about animals by Christina Rossetti. This lesson has been designed to meet the following National Curriculum objectives:
• Listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently (Year 1)
• Learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart (Year 1)
• Continuing to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear (Year 2)
The poems included are:
• ‘Caterpillar’ about the lifecycle of caterpillar
• ‘White Hen Sitting’ about the lifecycle of a chicken
• ‘Hurt No Living Thing’ encouraging kindness to all creatures
• ‘Hopping Frog’ comparing a frog and a toad
• ‘City Mouse and Garden Mouse’ comparing different habitats
The PPT provided for each poem contains:
• The poem with supporting visual images
• Background information about the poet and poem
• Discussion questions
• Guidance on how to perform the poem
• An optional writing activity
Each resource also includes differentiated comprehension worksheets. The discussion questions and comprehension worksheets enable pupils to gain a good understanding of the poem prior to performance. The optional writing activity enables teachers to extend the lesson should they wish to do so.
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 1 word objective requiring pupils to recognise suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words (e.g. helping, helped, helper) The PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion.
A pack of nine PowerPoints linked to the specific national curriculum objectives for year 6 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Each PowerPoint contains a whole lesson which includes:
an explanation of the terminology
a text containing examples linked to the vocabulary, grammar or punctuation objective.
an exercise for pupils to complete.
opportunities for pupils to discuss and reflect on what they have learnt.
Also includes short assessment tests each containing five SATs style questions linked to year group objectives with accompanying answer sheets.
You may also like the amazing value Year 6 SPAG Revision Bundle which contains 30 PPT lessons including all 9 PPT lessons available in this bundle plus 21 PPT lessons to help revise content from previous years.
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 6 punctuation objectives requiring pupils to understand the use of colons, semi-colons and bullet points in lists. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 4 text objective requiring pupils to understand ‘Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
This PPT based lesson will help students to review the skills needed to write dialogue. The lesson format is as below:
Discuss: Talk about the features and purpose of the dialogue.
Analyse: Identify the features that can be seen in an example text.
Write: Write a converstion between two people choosing from a selection of prompts
Edit: Review work and identify improvements that could be made.
This PPT based lesson will help students to review the skills needed to write an information text. The lesson format is as below:
Discuss: Talk about the features and purpose of information texts and the set task.
Analyse: Identify the features that can be seen in an example text.
Write: Write a short information text about how to look after your health
Edit: Review work and identify improvements that could be made.
A pack of nine Power Points linked to the specific national curriculum objectives for year 3 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Each Power Point contains:
* an explanation of the terminology
* a text containing examples linked to the vocabulary, grammar or punctuation objective.
* a short exercise for pupils to complete.
* opportunities for pupils to discuss and reflect on what they have learnt.
In addition, included are short assessment tests containing five SATs style questions linked to each objective with an accompanying answer sheet.
A complete poetry lesson based on the fun scary poem ‘The Hairy Toe’ with PPT presentation and comprehension tasks. Great for Halloween! Useful for whole class or guided reading sessions, literacy lessons or topic work. Also includes guidance for two follow-up writing activities. A flexible resource with the potential for extension into a short unit of work. Suitable for KS1.
The 13 slide PPT contains:
• The poem with supporting visual images
• Background information about the poem
• Discussion questions
• Details of follow-up activities.
The resource also includes:
• A copy of the poem. Useful for pupils to read, make annotations or highlight.
• Two differentiated comprehension worksheets. Worksheet A contains a task to explore pupils’ basic understanding and an activity requiring pupils to visualise aspects of the poem. Worksheet B is more challenging and contains tasks linked to language and inference.
This pack provides coverage of around half of the spelling objectives for year 3 and 4 as detailed in Appendix 1 of the English National Curriculum: The pack is fully editable and includes:
• A suggested year 4 spelling half-termly teaching sequence
• Word Lists containing sets of the statutory and example spellings. These can be given to pupils or enlarged to create posters
• Look Cover Write Check sheets containing statutory and example spellings
• A PPT containing example words accompanied by rules, guidance and word lists
• Dictation sentences containing a mix of statutory and example spellings
• A PPT containing a range of teacher led spelling tasks to help pupils practise their spellings
• A PPT containing a range of spelling tasks to help pupils learn their set spellings independently
For a resource offering complete coverage of all of the year 3 and 4 spelling objectives please see details of the year 3 and 4 bundle.
This pack provides full coverage of the spelling objectives for year 3 and 4 as detailed in Appendix 1 of the English National Curriculum: The pack is fully editable and includes:
• Suggested spelling half-termly teaching sequences for years 3 and 4
• Word Lists containing sets of the statutory and example spellings. These can be given to pupils or enlarged to create posters
• Look Cover Write Check sheets containing statutory and example spellings
• PPTs containing example words accompanied by rules, guidance and word lists
• Dictation sentences containing a mix of statutory and example spellings
• A PPT containing a range of teacher led spelling tasks to help pupils practise their spellings
• A PPT containing a range of spelling tasks to help pupils learn their set spellings independently
This pack contains 13 posters which illustrate and explain the vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives for year 3 as specified in the English National Curriculum Appendix 2. Great for classroom display and reference throughout the teaching year.
A PPT based lesson designed to help pupils recognise four different types of nouns: common, proper, concrete and abstract. The 16 slide PPT contains explanation, activities and practice exercises for pupils to complete as well as opportunities for discussion.
A PPT based lesson designed to help pupils recognise and understand the use of adverbs of time, manner and place. The 13 slide PPT contains explanation, activities and practice exercises for pupils to complete as well as opportunities for discussion.
Resources to support fiction writing in KS1. Includes three story maps / planning sheets, a vocabulary card and a self / peer assessment checklist.
The story maps / planning sheets can be used prior to writing a fiction story. They are suitable for both creating a story map based on a model text, or planning a story.
The fiction vocabulary card can be used to support students during writing. It contains a selection of vocabulary lists enabling students to be more ambitious in their word choice when writing. Word lists are linked to areas such as characters, settings, feelings etc.
The self / peer assessment checklist is useful at the editing stage. It can be used to help students easily identify areas where improvement is needed. The fiction vocabulary card can also help to support students in the editing process.
All resources are fully editable allowing teachers to adapt them to meet the needs of their class.
The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test paper often features questions linked to expanded noun phrases. This PPT based lesson will help Year 6 students revise this area. The 10 slide PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a mini- assessment containing five SATs style questions linked to expanded noun phrases is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test paper frequently features questions linked to determiners. This PPT based lesson will help Year 6 students revise this area. The 16 slide PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a mini- assessment containing five SATs style questions linked to determiners is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test paper frequently features questions linked to sentence types. This PPT based lesson will help Year 6 students revise this area. The 16 slide PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a mini- assessment containing five SATs style questions linked to sentence types is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
The Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test features questions linked to year 6 objectives plus topics covered in previous years. This resource contains 30 detailed no-prep PPT lessons providing comprehensive coverage of the content students need to revise to succeed in the Key Stage 2 SPAG tests.
Each lesson includes explanation, exercises and discussion prompts. All lessons are accompanied by assessments which contain five SATs style questions linked to the objective and an answer sheet.
Included are nine PPT lessons linked to the specific National Curriculum objectives for year 6 SPAG. Topics covered are:
The use of the passive
Layout Devices
Cohesive Devices
Hyphens
Formal and Informal Sentence Structure
Formal and Informal Vocabulary
Synonyms and Antonyms
Semi-colons, colons and dashes to mark independent clauses
Semi-colons and Bullet Points in Lists
In addition there are twenty PPT lessons to help students recap areas which have been frequently featured in the KS2 SPAG test in previous years. Topics covered are:
Adverbs and Adverbials
Apostrophes
Clauses and Subordinate Clauses
Commas
Demarcating Sentences
Determiners
Expanded Noun Phrases
Inverted Commas
Modals
Parenthesis
Past and Present Tense including the progressive
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions of time, place and cause
Pronouns and Possessive Pronouns
Relative Clauses
Sentence Types
Simple Past and Present Perfect
Subordination and Coordination
Word Families
Plus one PPT lesson which contains a classic poem about the Parts of Speech with activities to help students quickly revise word classes.
Purchasing these lessons as a bundle offers a saving of more than 60% in contrast to purchasing the lessons individually! These engaging PPT lessons make light work of teaching tricky SPAG concepts to year 6 students!