This is a simple worksheet and power point ideal for a Year 4 class. The power point explains what a prefix is and gives examples of the prefix inter-. It then gives the opportunity for a differentiate dictionary task. The worksheet involves dictionary work and a filling in the blank exercise.
This power point explains what a prefix is. It gives the opportunity for students to brainstorm words that contain the prefix il- before directing them via QR code to Quizlet to practice words with beginning with il-. If you are not familiar with Quizlet is allows the children to practice the words interactively on flashcards, test if they can spell the words correctly by playing the game Gravity and also allows them to match the meaning to the word. It is an excellent website which the class always.
Brighten up your classroom and support report writing skills with these Rainbow-Colored Report Writing Display Posters! This set includes 9 ready-to-print PDFs that break down key aspects of report writing in an eye-catching, student-friendly format. These posters provide clear guidance on report structure, language, and conventions—perfect for young writers!
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Essential Report Writing Posters: Includes posters for Structure, Purpose, Language, Conventions, Examples, and Remember—all designed to guide students in creating well-organized, factual reports.
Animal Report Headings: Specific headings like Appearance, Habitat, Diet, Life Cycle, and Fun Facts help students structure their animal reports with ease.
Bonus Display Heading: Includes a bold, colorful heading with cut-out letters, perfect for creating an inviting “Report Writing” display in your classroom.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: These posters provide a vibrant, visual reminder of report-writing essentials, helping students stay focused and organized as they work. They’re perfect for both whole-class displays and individual student reference.
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Support your students’ report writing with this Animal Report Writing Word Mat! Designed to be both fun and colorful, this word mat is a helpful resource for students as they structure and enhance their animal reports. With key headings including Habitat, Diet, Appearance, Behavior, Conservation, and Reproduction, students have a clear guide to organize their writing and enrich their vocabulary.
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Essential Report Headings: The mat’s headings encourage students to explore essential aspects of their animal research, helping them focus on relevant information.
Helpful Vocabulary Boost: Each section includes word and phrase suggestions to inspire students and expand their vocabulary, making their reports more detailed and interesting.
Colorful, Student-Friendly Design: The bright, engaging design keeps students focused and makes report writing a positive experience.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: This word mat simplifies the report writing process, guiding students to think about each area in detail. It’s perfect for supporting independent writing and helping students build confidence as they create well-organized, informative animal reports!
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Engage your students in learning the essentials of report writing with this 14-Slide PowerPoint! This resource is designed to break down the structure and features of effective reports in a clear, student-friendly way, guiding students through each component step-by-step. To wrap up, there’s a 5-slide interactive “Fact or Opinion” game to reinforce learning in a fun and engaging way!
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Clear Structure Overview: Students learn about each key section of a report, from the introduction to conclusions, with explanations that are easy to follow.
Essential Report Features: Highlights important language features, such as factual language, formal tone, and organized paragraphing, giving students a strong foundation for report writing.
Interactive “Fact or Opinion” Game: A 5-slide game that tests students’ understanding of facts vs. opinions, a crucial skill for writing clear, informative reports.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: This PowerPoint makes teaching report writing both effective and enjoyable, covering core report-writing skills and concluding with an interactive game to reinforce key concepts. Perfect for introductory lessons or as a refresher before report assignments!
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Looking for a fun and engaging way to enhance your students’ reading comprehension skills? Check out this “Halloween is Nearly Here” resource based on the humorous poem by Kenn Nesbitt!
This ready-to-use worksheet includes:
Comprehension Questions: Challenge your students with multiple-choice questions that test their understanding of the poem.
Vocabulary Practice: Help your students expand their vocabulary with targeted word questions from the poem.
Inference Skills: Encourage critical thinking with questions that require students to make inferences about the poem’s meaning.
Perfect for 3rd or 4th class, this resource is a fantastic way to make learning fun while reinforcing essential literacy skills. Get your students laughing and learning with this creative, curriculum-aligned activity!
A word search puzzle worksheet featuring vocabulary related to St Patrick’s Day. Use this to introduce vocab or as a treat for early finishers. Kids love puzzles; and word searches are a great way to improve spelling while having fun.
There are 20 vocabulary words to find in this activity and they might be found in any direction including backwards. This means it is fairly challenging so it should keep puzzlers busy for a while.
The works included are: Ireland, Christianity, clover, parade, rainbow, emerald, Patrick, shamrock, snakes, leprechaun, gold, saint, Irish, March, green, seventeen, luck, shoemaker, Celts, top hat.
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Looking for fun and engaging worksheets to teach your students all about nouns? This ready-to-print resource includes 4 high-quality worksheets that cover Common Nouns, Proper Nouns, Collective Nouns, and a Review Sheet to consolidate their learning!
What’s Included:
Common Nouns Worksheet: Activities to help students identify and classify common nouns.
Proper Nouns Worksheet: Practice recognizing and capitalizing proper nouns with real-world examples.
Collective Nouns Worksheet: Introduces groups of people, animals, and objects with fun matching and sorting exercises.
Noun Review Worksheet: A mixed review to reinforce learning, including a variety of challenges that assess understanding of all noun types.
Key Features:
Varied activities to challenge learners at different levels (circling, sorting, fill-in-the-blanks, and more!).
Clear instructions and engaging tasks to help students master noun concepts.
No prep needed – simply print and use in class or as homework!
Perfect for elementary grades, these worksheets are designed to reinforce noun skills while making learning interactive and enjoyable.
Boost your students’ understanding of nouns today!
What’s Inside:
Students will explore the book in-depth by:
Rating the book: Share their personal rating and explain why they liked or didn’t like it.
Summarising the book: Capture the key elements of the story or main facts they learned.
Looking for connections: Encourage students to relate the book to their own life or other stories they’ve read.
Describing the impact: Reflect on how the book made them feel and what lasting impressions it left.
Analysing the author’s intent: Think critically about why the author wrote the book and the messages or themes they communicated.
Recommending the book: Students can decide who might enjoy the book and why they would suggest it to others!
Perfect for Classroom Use:
Compact trifold format: This two-page resource folds into a neat booklet, making it easy for students to complete, review, and present their thoughts in an organized way.
Suitable for any book: Whether your students are reading fiction or non-fiction, this product adapts seamlessly to both, ensuring they get the most out of their reading experience.
Encourages deeper thinking: Go beyond surface-level summaries! This trifold challenges students to engage critically with the text, fostering essential reading comprehension skills.
Transform your classroom book reviews into engaging, meaningful activities that inspire students to think, connect, and share!
Engage your students in thoughtful, structured reflection with our Book Review Trifold! This versatile resource guides readers through a comprehensive review of both fiction and non-fiction books, all in a 2-page, trifold format. The unique design allows for easy printing and folding, transforming the two pages into a fun, interactive booklet that students can fill out!
Make report writing easy and engaging with these Animal-Themed Report Writing Planning Templates! 6 adorable pastel-colored templates featuring animals that students love: Penguins, Capybaras, Axolotls, Reindeer, Red Pandas, and a Blank Template for students to choose their own animal.
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Animal-Specific Planning: Templates guide students to gather and organize details on their animal’s appearance, habitat, diet, behavior, and interesting facts.
Blank Template Option: A blank template allows students to select any animal they’re passionate about, providing flexibility and personal choice.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: These templates simplify the report-writing process by giving students a structured, visually appealing place to brainstorm and organize their research. Ideal for introductory report writing units, this resource makes report planning both effective and enjoyable!
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Bring the power of visualisation to your classroom with this vibrant 23-page PDF poster set! Perfect for guiding students in the comprehension strategy of visualising, this resource is designed to make reading come alive. Here’s what’s included:
5 Strategy Posters – Clear, easy-to-understand posters explaining the visualisation strategy to help students engage with text. 12 Sentence Starter Posters – Encourage students to build vivid mental images with these colourful, accessible sentence starters. 3 Sensory Posters – Focus on sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to deepen students’ sensory connection to reading. Title Letters and Word Mat – Use the rainbow-coloured letters to create an eye-catching display, and support students further with the handy word mat.
Pair these with the Visualisation Task Cards to deepen students’ understanding even more: Visualisation Task Cards
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Enhance your students’ comprehension skills with these 44 Visualisation Task Cards designed specifically for young readers! Each card presents a vivid, sensory-rich description that invites students to read, imagine, and draw what they visualise. These task cards are perfect for encouraging mental imagery, helping students “see” what they read, and building stronger connections to the text.
How It Works: Students will read each short passage—carefully crafted to include sensory details about sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. They’ll then create a drawing of what they see in their minds. This activity is ideal for promoting focused reading, imagination, and sensory engagement!
Benefits of Using Visualisation Task Cards:
Improves Reading Comprehension: Visualisation encourages students to go beyond the words, helping them better understand and remember the text.
Strengthens Sensory Engagement: By including details about all five senses, these cards help students connect more deeply to what they’re reading.
Boosts Creativity and Expression: Drawing what they imagine enables students to express their understanding visually, reinforcing individual interpretation and creativity.
Supports Various Learning Styles: The combination of reading, imagination, and drawing caters to visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic learners, making comprehension practice fun and accessible.
Perfect For:
Literacy centres
Independent reading time
Group discussions
Guided reading sessions
Sub plans or quick, no-prep activities
These Visualisation Task Cards are an effective and engaging way to help students develop a crucial reading strategy that they can carry forward in their learning journey. Transform reading comprehension into an imaginative adventure with this set of 44 cards!
Add to your teaching toolkit today and watch your students’ reading comprehension come to life!
Introduce your students to report writing with these engaging and educational Animal-Themed Report Writing Activities! Featuring six unique animal reports, this resource is designed to make report writing both fun and accessible for students as they learn key skills such as structuring information, choosing subheadings, and identifying effective report language.
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4 Animal Reports with Multiple-Choice Questions: Reports on Axolotls, Capybaras, Adélie Penguins, and Dugongs come with 6 multiple-choice questions each. These questions reinforce report comprehension, animal facts, and the structure of report writing, helping students identify key elements in high-quality reports.
2 Animal Reports with Subheading Activities: Reports on Red Foxes and Tarsiers prompt students to apply their understanding by selecting appropriate subheadings for each of the 6 paragraphs, reinforcing the importance of clear organization and topic relevance in reports.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: These activities provide an ideal introduction to report writing, combining fascinating animal topics with essential writing skills. They help students:
Recognize what a well-structured report looks like.
Understand the purpose of subheadings and clear structure.
Explore language that is informative and engaging.
With animals like axolotls and capybaras to spark curiosity, this set of activities will captivate students while guiding them through the report-writing process.
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Transform your students’ writing unit on Reports with this engaging 9-page Animal Research Booklet! Perfect for young researchers, this booklet guides students through the research process with clear, structured prompts, helping them to confidently create their own animal reports.
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Colorful Cover Page: Your students can decorate and color their booklet cover, adding a personal touch to their research project.
Guided Brainstorming: The first page encourages students to brainstorm and select an animal that excites their curiosity, setting a positive tone for the project.
Detailed Paragraph Prompts: Each page provides students with titles and prompts for essential report paragraphs:
Appearance: What makes this animal look unique?
Habitat: Where does it call home?
Diet: What does it eat to survive?
Life Cycle: How does it grow and change?
Behavior: What interesting things does it do?
Adaptations: How is it designed to thrive in its environment?
Fun Facts: What makes this animal extra cool?
Each topic is introduced with questions to inspire thoughtful research and clear writing, ensuring students stay focused and organized.
Why Teachers Love This Resource: This booklet is not only fun and easy to use but also ideal for structured writing practice in report format, meeting curriculum goals while keeping students engaged. Designed to support independent research and easy to integrate into your writing lessons, this booklet will help your students create informative, organized, and exciting animal reports.
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This resource includes a poem used to show different poetic techniques as well as a power point. It could be used in any KS2 poetry class.
This poem is called Desperate. It is about s child trying to include all the poetic techniques they have learned but they are finding the task difficult. Without knowing they include all the techniques required.
Techniques include alliteration, rhyme, metaphor, simile and personification.
The power point explains alliteration, similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, rhyme and repetition and gives examples of each.
This PowerPoint teaches the children how to put words in alphabetical order. There is then an exercise to practice this. This resource is suitable for Year 3 and Year 4.
This resource helps children identify nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs. It contains 4 posters (adjectives, adverbs, nouns and verbs) and two worksheets. The first worksheet explains what each type of word is before testing the children with the activity. There is an extension at the end of the sheet for students to practice putting the words in sentences. The second worksheet is like the concept of colour by numbers but instead it is colour by word class.
This resource looks at what a suffix is. It then introduces the suffix -ous and what it means. Students then complete different activities based on this suffix. There is dictionary work, matching the meaning to words, creating sentences (this task is differentiated).
Finally there is a fill in the blank exercise, with answers included.