Word banks for year 2 designed to encourage children to use adjectives, adverbs and nouns with suffixes. Editable.

A character description template. Draw a picture, describe appearance, personality, actions and the character changing over time.

A great way to introduce and practise the pronunciation of short and long vowels.

A demo version of Common Exception Words Year 1 Games. A fantastic interactive PowerPoint designed to practise year 1 common exception words. It will save you the hassle of preparing new activities throughout the year and will help children to memorise the spellings while having fun. There are three ways of using the resource: 1) Spelling out activities (e.g. precision teaching); 2) Word scramble; 3) Hangman game (shark version). The features allow you to pick a word from the spelling list, go to the next/previous slide, go to the contents and renew the page to play a new game with the same word.

A fantastic interactive PowerPoint designed to practise year 1 common exception words. It will save you the hassle of preparing new activities throughout the year and will help children to memorise the spellings while having fun. There are three ways of using the resource: 1) Spelling out activities (e.g. precision teaching); 2) Word scramble; 3) Hangman game (shark version). The features allow you to pick a word from the spelling list, go to the next/previous slide, go to the contents and renew the page to play a new game with the same word.

A lovely resource that will save you the hassle of coming up with word lists to practise adding suffixes. Covers all suffixes for year 2. Can be used all year round!

A PowerPoint to introduce Year 1 spellings and common exception words. Covers all spellings covered in the National Curriculum. Can be used as morning work or spelling lesson.

A PowerPoint to introduce Year 2 spellings and common exception words. Covers all spellings covered in the National Curriculum. Can be used as morning work or spelling lesson.

A comprehensive PowerPoint presentation to introduce some / any / a / an in the context of shopping. Goes together with the "What's in your fridge (some / any)" speaking activity.

Pre-reading questions for guided reading.

A fantastic opportunity to include verbs with different suffixes, apostrophe for contraction and a variety of conjunctions in independent writing. This 2-week unit allows children to create a book and write a story about their own fictional character, evaluate and edit it before they proceed to independent writing. The pack includes: - Planning with examples of modelled writing - Support sheets for children working below expected / SEN - PowerPoint - Book pages template My children have written some truly beautiful stories and used the above listed features in their independent writing.

A handout on making questions polite in English.