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Free Book Review Template - KS1
Simple KS1 book review to encourage children to engage more deeply with the story. Really great to have in the reading area for children to use when they have finished reading.
This book review template has a summary account, what did you like about the book? what did you dislike about the book? and a blank 5 star rating.
If you have enjoyed this free resource, please leave a review.
Writing - Season Poetry - Autumn - Senses Star - Lesson 3 - KS1/KS2
With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created this season-based lesson. As reinforced by the National Curriculum, children should experience high-quality discussions on a wide range of poems and learn the poetry tools to create their own.
The season focus for this lesson is Autumn, with mention of the Halloween and 5th of November. Many detailed pictures and videos are attached (leaves, types of leaves, natural views of the process of autumn, chocolates, candied apples). Click on the link on the first page, and slowly go through the slides. Try using detailed words for inspiration and encourage discussion of some photos to share descriptive words (cinnamon rolls- sweet/soft/fluffy, leaf- dry/crunchy/crisp).
Included in this pack is a fully editable PowerPoint with a learning objectives and and task to create a senses star. The purpose of the senses star is to encourage children to use their senses to create a list of relevant words to expand enrich their work. There are 51 slides.
Learning Objective:
To create a senses star using imagery and audio.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Contractive Apostrophes - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using contractive apostrophes to add clarity to children’s writing.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 13 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that requires the children to identify, write and correct sentences with contractive apostrophes.
Learning Objective:
To identify and use contractive apostrophe
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Full Stops, Question & Exclamation marks - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
s to add clarity and avoid ambiguity in children’s writing.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 26 PowerPoint slides for this lesson. There is also a interactive quiz within the teaching slides.
The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that requires the children to identify, write and correct sentences with full stops, question marks or exclamation marks.
Learning Objective:
To use full stops, question and exclamation marks in writings.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Colons & Semicolons - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using colons and semicolons to add clarity and avoid ambiguity in children’s writing.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 20 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that requires the children to identify, write and correct sentences with colons and semicolons.
Learning Objective:
To understand and use colons and semicolons in sentences.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as adding prepositions & prepositional phrases in children’s writing.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 13 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that requires the children to identify and add prepositions & prepositional phrases.
Learning Objective:
LO: To know and identify prepositions.
To use prepositions to write complete sentences.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Relative Clauses - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using relative pronouns to create relative clauses.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 13 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that requires the children to create sentences with relative clauses.
Learning Objectives:
To identify relative pronouns.
To create relative clauses.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Homophones - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as identifying homophones and choosing the correct word to improve their writings.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). An interactive quiz is also included. There are 23 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
Also included a range of homophones, to/too/two, for/four and you’re/your.
The task for this lesson is to complete a Homophones worksheet
Learning Objectives:
To identify homophones
To differentiate words with the same sounds.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Past, Present & Future Tense - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using the correct tenses (past, present & future tenses) and knowing how to use them to improve their writings.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 18 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a past, present & future tense worksheet
Learning Objectives:
To use past, present and future tenses.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Modal Verbs - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using modal verbs and knowing how to use them to improve their writings.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 13 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete an Modal Verbs worksheet
Learning Objectives:
To use modal verbs phrases in writing
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Expanded Noun Phrases - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as using expanded noun phrases (Determiner Adjective, Adjective Noun and Prepositional Phrase) to improve their writings.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 16 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete an Expanded Noun Phrases worksheet
Learning Objectives:
To use expanded noun phrases to add more detail.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Main & Subordinate Clauses - KS2. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6.
Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills such as understanding what a main & subordinate clauses are and how use them to improve their writings.
This lesson comes with a fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, and Engaging Premium Quality Slides). There are 10 PowerPoint slides for this lesson.
The task for this lesson is to complete a Main & Subordinate Clauses worksheet.
Learning Objective:
To understand the difference between the main and subordinate clause.
With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created a set of high-quality Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lessons with tasks attached. Since the 2014 national curriculum, when the SPaG test was introduced and updated to became more challenging. Now, children are taught and officially tested on these specific skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar in year 2 and 6. Children are expected to learn and develop essential English skills that improves their speech and writing quality overall. Hence, it is important children learn these skills
Each Lesson Pack Contains:
A Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Objectives, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides).
The 20 lessons are broken down into the following:
Adverbs, Fronted Adverbials & Adverbial Phrases
Imperative Verbs
Possessive Apostrophes
Contractive Apostrophes
Dashes & Hyphens
Colons & Semicolons
Full Stops, Question & Exclamation marks
Formal & Informal English
Paragraphs
Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases
Determiners
Pronouns
Relative Clauses
Synonyms & Antonyms
Homophones (their/they/re/there and where/we’re/wear)
Homophones (to/too/two, for/four and you’re/your)
Expanded Noun Phrases
Modal Verbs
Past, Present & Future Tense
Time Conjunctions
Learning Objectives;
To use adverbs, fronted adverbials and adverbial phrases to modify sentences.
To identify and use imperative verbs.
To understand singular and plural possessive apostrophes.
To identify and use contractive apostrophe.
To use dashes and hyphens.
To understand and use colons and semicolons in sentences.
To use full stops, question and exclamation marks in writings.
To understand the importance of formal English.
To identify the difference between formal and informal English.
To use paragraphs to improve writings.
To know and identify prepositions.
To use prepositions to write complete sentences.
To identify and use determiners.
To identify and use pronouns.
To identify relative pronouns.
To create relative clauses.
To use synonyms of common words to improve writings
To identify antonyms
To identify homophones
To differentiate words with the same sounds.
To use expanded noun phrases to add more detail.
To use modal verbs phrases in writing
To use past, present and future tenses.
To identify and use time conjunctions.
Success Steps - Writing Checklists - Year 1 & Year 2 - KS1
These resources enable teachers to mark children’s writing with regards to their level (working towards, working at expected and working at greater depth) and expectation for their age group.
Both resources includes 3 writing checklists: working towards, working at expected and working at greater depth for each year group.
The resources are ready to print.
The Year 2 Checklists also contains a self-assessment box.
The resources are ready to print.
Guided Reading Resource - True or False, Prove it! - Takumi Minamino (KS2, Japan)
This reading activity is in an editable word document. Includes two documents, a short article about Takumi Minamino and a True or False, Prove it! activity. These statements are based on the article provided. These statements can be true or false. The purpose is to get children to ‘prove it’ by using the text to retrieve and record key information and then identifying whether the the statement is true or false.
Reading Resource - Definitions - KS1/KS2
This reading resource is fully editable and in the word document format. This activity encourages children to write their own definitions for each one. First predict the meaning, find the definition, write a definition in your own words and then write sentence example (could be from the text). By creating their very own dictionary, children can expand their vocabulary thus writing. This can be completed after reading a text or book.
Reading Resource - Top 5 - KS1/KS2
This reading resource is fully editable and in the word document format. This activity encourages children to recap the 5 most important parts of this text. This can be completed after reading a text or book.
This reading activity can be used as partner, group, and individual work. The Top 5 template can be printed in A4 and A3 formats.
Writing - Poetry - Similes - Lesson 5 - (KS1/KS2)
This lesson discusses and explain in detail the use of similes . Also included are a few examples of poems with similes.
This lesson is in PowerPoint format and can be taught as it is or changed to suit individual classes. Detailed PowerPoint Lesson with 7 slides.
This lesson comes with suggested activity or task that is also attached. The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that involves starting to form a poem that has similes. An additional task is also included, to start writing their own similes.
Learning objectives
• To learn about and use similes in poetry.
Writing - Poetry - Rhythm & Rhyme - Lesson 4 - (KS1/KS2)
This lesson discusses and explain in detail the use of rhythm and rhyme . Also included are a few examples of poems using rhythm and rhyme.
This lesson is in PowerPoint format and can be taught as it is or changed to suit individual classes. Detailed PowerPoint Lesson with 10 slides.
This lesson comes with suggested activity or task that is also attached. The task for this lesson is to complete a worksheet that involves starting to form a poem that has rhythm and rhyme.
Learning objectives
• To learn about rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
