Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using metaphors in KS2. It contains examples of metaphors and 5 different metaphor challenges, which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using assonance in KS2. It contains examples of assonance and 5 different assonance challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
*This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using consonance in KS2. It contains examples of assonance and 5 different assonance challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
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Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using onomatopoeia in KS2 English lessons. It contains examples of onomatopoeia and 5 different onomatopoeia challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using personification in KS2 English lessons. It contains examples of personification and 5 different personification challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using idioms in KS2. It contains examples of idioms and 5 different idiom challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This Lower KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using homophones. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This classroom vocabulary resource pack is designed to support learning with children learning to speak English as an additional language. Children will visit key vocabulary through familiar images and build up a word bank which is then used to discuss and describe images with similar themes.
This can be done individually, in pairs or in small groups. The resources can be used for one lesson or spread over a number of sessions. Once children have completed a task, these resources can be used to support them again in other lessons.
This pack contains:
Lesson plan
4 images of playparks
18 unlabelled images
18 labelled images
This lunchtime classroom vocabulary resource pack is designed to support learning with children learning to speak English as an additional language. Children will visit key vocabulary through familiar images and build up a word bank which is then used to discuss and describe images with similar themes.
This can be done individually, in pairs or in small groups. The resources can be used for one lesson or spread over a number of sessions. Once children have completed a task, these resources can be used to support them again in other lessons.
This pack contains:
Lesson plan
4 lunchtime images
18 unlabelled images
18 labelled images
Stuck for fun ways to teach spelling, punctuation and grammar? This Year 2 grammar pack contains a number of games that can be used to teach conjunctions, vocabulary, punctuation or any other SPaG focus of your choice.
The pack comes with conjunction cards and a set of thought-provoking images to use around the classroom and with the games.
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This KS2 grammar teaching sequence for relative clauses has been designed to help children revisit and remember a key grammatical concept from the National Curriculum programme of study.
The session provides a motivating and memorable image to stimulate discussion, before introducing the grammar element. Children have time to practise using this feature, before undertaking a short writing task to apply what they have learnt in the context of creative writing.
The resource includes teacher notes and a pupil worksheet.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using alliteration in KS2. It contains examples of alliteration and 5 different alliteration challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 1 spelling test are:
‘ff’ words
‘ll’ words
‘ss’ words
‘zz’ words
‘ck’ words
‘nk’ words
syllables
‘tch’ words
‘v’ sound at the end of a word
add ‘s’ and ‘es’ at the end of a word
add ‘ed’ ‘ing’ and ‘er’ to action words
adding –er and –est to adjectives where no change is needed to the root word
words with ‘ai’ and ‘oi’
words with ‘ay’ and ‘oy’
a_e words
e_e words
i_e words
o_e words
u_e words
ar words
‘ee’ words
‘ea’ as in sea words
‘ea’ as in head words
‘er’ as in her words
‘er’ as in summer words
‘ir’ words
‘ur’ words
‘oo’ as in ‘food’ words
‘oo’ as in ‘book’ words
‘oa’ words
‘oe’ words
‘ou’ words
'ow’ as in ‘now’ words
'ow’ as in ‘blow’ words
'ue’ words
‘ew’ words
‘ie’ as in ‘lie’ words
‘ie’ as in ‘chief’
‘igh’ words
‘or’ words
‘aw’ words
‘au’ words
‘air’ as ‘fair’ in words
‘ear’ as in ‘hear’
‘ear’ as in ‘bear’
‘are’ as in ‘care’ words
words ending in ‘y’
‘ph’ words
‘wh’ words
‘k’ words
adding the prefix –un
compound words
*This Year 3 spelling patterns pack contains 14 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
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Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 2 spelling test are:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y
adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
This Year 4 spelling patterns pack contains 12 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
This pack contains a variety of Upper Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The Spelling patterns covered in the year 5 spelling pack are:
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shus’ spelt -cious or -tious
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
Spell words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
Spell words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
Spell words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
This pack contains six SATs style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The spelling patterns covered on this Year 4 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one
Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’
Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
Understand and add suffix -ation,
Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que
Spell homophones and near-homophones
Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4
Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals
This Year 5 spelling patterns pack contains 10 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
These Year 2 spelling review worksheets, covering words which include ‘gn’ or ‘kn’, are an excellent way to revise and practise spelling.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.