Useful prompts for children when peer assessing their work.

4 differentiated levels of poetry response sheets. Used in Year 2 but can be adapted for other year groups. Differentiated using chili challenge

Editable PowerPoint game where the children have to splat the alien words. Mix of real words and fake words for the children to read. Works really well if used on an interactive whiteboard, as an independent activity! Just edit using the words you want.

Editable Alien words zoom past the spaceship window and children practise reading the fake words! PowerPoint already has all Phase 2 alien words but can be edited to include any words you need.

This pack contains: SPaG PowerPoint lesson to teach using commas to separate items in a list 36 colourful semantics cards related to shopping at the supermarket 12 shopping list game cards 4 speech/writing frames to use with the cards This activity can be used in at least 4 different ways! I have used it for the following: teaching food vocabulary: This can be done either in the context of shopping or as expressing likes, dislikes. Both options are included in this resource. using commas to separate items in a list: Use the game cards for children to use as a writing prompt. They can record what each person bought at the supermarket to practise using commas. Shopping list memory game: Give each child a shopping list and lay out the green cards on the table. Give them a moment to look at their list then turn it over. They must try and remember which items they need to buy in the correct order! speaking and listening to describe someone’s shopping list: Children could use real life experiences to recall a visit to the shops with family. What did each member buy? If you find another use for the cards, please leave a review or tag me on Instagram @simply_semantics - I’d love to see how you’re using them! *

A perfect resource to teach children how to use prepositions and prepositional phrases! This pack contains a teaching PowerPoint and 10 differentiated worksheets at different levels of progression: 2 preposition match pages - draw a line to match the preposition to the picture 2 preposition multiple choice - circle the preposition to match each picture 2 read and draw - draw a picture to complete the sentence 2 semantics sheets - write the sentence to match the cards 2 sentence writing sheets - write a sentence to match the picture Prepositions covered in this pack: in, on, under, between, next to, in front of, beside, behind, around, above, below. Please leave a review or tag me on instagram @simply_semantics, I’d love to hear what you think of this resource!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar themed colourful semantics. The cards help struggling speakers and writers to retell a story, giving them more confidence when they write. A brilliant tool to support children with EFL - ESL - ELD - EAL - SEN! Colourful semantics is an approach created by Alison Bryan. It is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. Colourful Semantics helps children to: •Develop a wider vocabulary •Make sentences longer •Develop use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives •Improve story telling skills The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence: Who? (noun) Doing? (verb) What? (object) Where? (location). Children use the strips included to help them structure their own sentences. This pack contains story specific vocabulary, including: 3 who - noun/person cards 3 doing - verb cards 18 what - noun/object cards 9 time conjunction cards 9 adjective cards 2 where - noun/place cards

This handy pack of 54 fronted adverbials and prepositions helps support struggling writers when writing more complex sentences. The fronted adverbials are used at the beginning of a sentence to give more information about the action in the main clause. The difference in colour helps to remind children that they are separate from the main clause and must include a comma. The pack includes the following: 9 adverbial cards to describe manner (how) 27 adverbial cards to describe time (when) 9 adverbial cards to describe place (where) 9 preposition cards to describe position

A set of 15 help sheets for parents of children in Early Years. Sheets cover everything from blending to number formation, with some writing tasks. Really useful to send weekly to encourage helping at home!

Colourful Semantics adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and negatives growing pack! This growing bundle has everything you need to move on to stages 5-8 of the colourful semantics programme. What’s included in this pack? 15 conjunction cards (coordinating and subordinating) 18 modal verb cards, including negatives 54 adjective cards 9 preposition cards 36 adverb and fronted adverbial cards Level 5 Adjectives: The purple ‘describe’ cards are the adjectives in a sentence. An adjective is a describing word. The ‘describe’ card can be placed at different points to describe different words in the sentence. Various strips are included. Level 6 Adverbs: Adverbs are words that change verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They can modify (or change) a verb by making it more precise. This pack includes adverbs, fronted adverbials and prepositions. Level 7 Conjunctions: Conjunctions are used to join two clauses or expand an idea. This pack contains both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Level 8 Negatives: This pack includes modal verbs to show how possible something is, or how likely it is to happen/have happened. The cards help children learn how to indicate degrees of possibility and how to use them correctly in language. The cards can also be used to help children learn to form questions by inversion. For example: Statement = She can go to the park. Question = Can she go to the park? These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with the Colourful Semantics starter pack (stages 1-4), which can be purchased here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colourful-semantics-starter-pack-12121851 I update the packs regularly as I use them in my own classroom. You will be notified of any updates as they become available.

Past tense verb cards! This set of 45 verb cards can be used with other colourful semantic sets to add more variety to your students’ sentence writing. Perfect for teaching children to use irregular past tense verbs in their writing.

Help your class remember the irregular forms of past tense verbs with I have… Who Has? Game. Great as an English lesson warm up activity or Grammar review.