A ‘Spelling Menu’ - students can choose any activity to practice their spellings independently. When they finish, they colour in a star on that activity. This ensures that over time they use a range of strategies to practice their spellings. Great to have stuck in the front of Spelling/English books for a quick 10 minute lesson starter or for Spelling classes. 3 to a page, designed to fit smaller exercise books.

A quick revision activity perfect to remind students of their capital letters.

Looking for ways your students can practice prefixes? 4 activities provided for 8 commonly taught prefixes (un-, dis-, im-, mis-, re-, pre-, auto-, super-). Includes identifying root word and prefix, identifying word meanings, sorting words, matching words to prefix and completing sentences. Excellent as homework, extension activities or classwork. Tried and tested with my own students!

This editable PowerPoint includes over 30 slides to support your class to practice their editing and proofreading skills. Each slide has an error-filled sentence which students correct in their notebooks. The correct form of each sentence is in the slide notes. Editing symbols can appear on each sentence to indicate where the mistakes are. Included: Intro slides, 6 simple slides to use for teaching the routine, and 3 sets of approximately 10 slides - enough for a whole half term of daily practice! Like this daily practice activity? Check out my store for daily Maths retrieval practice too!

This 2 week mini-unit has been a hit every time I’ve taught it! This unit is aimed at Year 3 students, and can be adapted to suit the needs of your class. I have left everything fully editable as you need to adapt it to your own students but please share within the license boundaries of your purchase. The unit takes 10 days (2 weeks of English lessons of approximately 45-60 minutes). Week 1 covers ‘features of a narrative’, ‘comprehension’, ‘skill practice’ and ‘planning’. Week 2 is more open ended to allow you to follow the writing and editing expectations of your school. Week 1 could also be adapted for whole-class guided reading if appropriate. The unit covers: • Beginning, middle and end using the story mountain framework to extend this into introduction, build up, climax, resolution, conclusion • Using quotation marks/inverted commas for speech (this does not explicitly teach use of commas within quotation marks as I build this in later in the year, but you could easily add this in) • Character and setting recap • Brief exposure to ‘Rule of 3’ descriptions