5 POWERPOINTS: Introduction to pronouns: Explains what pronouns are and gives an example of what text would look like if they were not used. It ends with an activity where the children read the sentences to see which pronoun should be used to aid cohesion and avoid repetition. Pronoun practice: Exercise to see which pronouns should be used where. Personal pronouns: A study of personal pronouns eg I/my/mine Demonstrative pronouns: A look at this, these, that and those Reflexive pronouns: A study of reflexive pronouns such as he/himself, with exercises to think of sentences containing them. PRINTABLE PDF FILES: Complete the pronoun matrix Find the pronouns ( x 3): Read the stories and find the pronouns. Indefinite pronouns: For display Missing pronouns (x 2): Read the story and fill in the missing pronouns Pronoun count: To use when reading to see which pronouns are the most common. Pronoun list Who am I: Picture cards for the children to describe using possessive pronouns

A powerpoint explaining what paragraphs are and how they can be used to organise ideas around a theme and a sheet to help the children plan out the main ideas in a paragraph.

POWERPOINTS: Fronted Adverbials: Explains what they are and how to use them (including the use of commas from the punctuation objectives) PRINTABLE PDF FILES: Adverbial spotter worksheet: To use with reading books or passages of text Adverbials of time display Adverbials of manner display Adverbials of time display Adverbials of time cards: For composition activities etc Adverbials of manner cards: For composition activities etc Adverbials of time cards: For composition activities etc 5 x Word documents with different passages to use with spotter sheet

A pack of powrpoints and printable resources looking at noun phrases that are expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases. POWERPOINTS: Modifying adjectives: Recap of how adjectives can be used to expand noun phrases. Gives images at the end for practice of adding adjectives. Modifying nouns: Introduction to how nouns can modify noun phrases, eg kitchen table, office chair. Gives images at the end where the children have to use nouns to specify more information about the main noun. Modifying preposition phrases: Explains what preposition phrases are and shows how they can be used to specify where the noun is. It gives examples and ends with images where the children can think of preposition phrases. PRINTABLE PDF FILES: Modifying adjectives worksheet Modifying nouns worksheet Modifying preposition phrases worksheet Adjectives posters: Lots of different adjectives to display Preposition posters: Lots of prepositions/ preposition phrases to display

A powerpoint looking at how suffixes change the way verbs work, with some examples of standard English to use in writing rather than local spoken forms, plus a list of irregular verbs.

3 Powerpoints: Recap of plural s: Revision of previous learning about nouns, singular and plural with a short exercise at the end. Recap of possessive s: Revision of previous learning about possessive -s. Plural or possessive s: Sentences with lots of questions for the children to answer, whether the words contain plural or possessive -s. 1 Worksheet: Plural and possessive s

A powerpoint explaining the terms adverb, preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause, subordinate clause, direct speech, inverted commas, speech marks, vowels and consonants

A powerpoint explaining what direct speech is and how to use inverted commas when writing it down.

POWERPOINTS: Paragraphs:An introduction to paragraphs, explaining what they are and how to write them. Headings and sub-headings:An introduction to headings and sub-headings, explaining what they are and where and how they can be used. Present perfect:Explains what the present perfect tense is and how it is formed. It ends with sentences for the children to rewrite using the present perfect tense. PDF activity: Present perfect worksheet

Includes a powerpoint, vocabulary cards and a set of posters. POWERPOINT: explains the difference between conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, giving examples of where and how to use them. 4 sets of display: SET 1 Time place and cause connectives: This set contains 3 headings and sets of words in clouds to display around the headings time, cause and place. There are blank clouds for you to add your own. SET 2) Conjunctions adverbs and prepositions cards: In this set there are 5 words per A4 page which can be cut up for display. The words are organised into conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions with an A4 title for each. SET 3) Conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions posters: These posters splits the connectives into sets of Time/Cause/Place and conjunctions/adverbs/prepositions. There are 7 A5 pages plus a title page. SET 4) Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions: These posters explain the difference between the two types of conjunctions and give examples of each in clouds.

3 POWERPOINTS: Words and families: Explains what word families are and how to make them. It follows with 10 common exception words and related words . Roots, affixes and word families: Explains how word families can be built by using affixes. Gives examples of the word family related to the word 'act' and also the word 'light'. Word families: Building words using a matrix of prefixes, root words and suffixes. PDF WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES: Cards (x6 – act/give/light/pass/press/sign) containing words belonging to each word family Word derivation sheet – blank Word family – give Word family – pass Word family –press Word family –sign Word list – Latin root words and families (extension work) Plus a Y3 VG&P plan

A powerpoint explaining when to use a and when to use an, with an interactive activity for the children to choose the correct form.

The first powerpoint recaps the terminology noun and prefix then explains how prefixes are added to words and change their meaning. Gives some examples of words with the prefixes super, auto, anti and tele and asks how the meanings have changed. The second powerpoint looks at a range of prefixes the children should have covered in Y2 and introduces new ones alongside their meanings. PDF WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES: Word list – nouns using prefixes Fore/mid/sub jigsaw cards Super/auto/anti jigsaw cards Prefix anti worksheet Prefix auto worksheet Prefix super worksheet DISPLAY: Noun prefixes display Plus a Y3 VG&P plan

A variety of pdf sheets that can be used for different spelling activities. They include: Acrostic poems Bubble words Colourful words Cut out words Look write cover check spelling sheet Rainbow spellings Shape words Silly Sentences Spelling with both hands Stories with spellings Word search with spellings Words in words Writing a poem Writing fun

Resources to teach the spellings of the words in the years 3 and 4 word list INTRODUCTORY POWERPOINT: Spelling strategies: Looks at different ways to learn spellings for children to use 16 SPELLING POWERPOINTS: The words are organised into 15 different categories according to how they are spelt. Each category contains between 6 and 9 words so that they can also be used for spelling tests. Each category contains a PowerPoint with a page for each word and a range of strategies to help remember the spelling of each. The strategies include: Looking at the history of the word Looking at words in the same word family Looking at spelling rules Looking at root words and affixes Using speak and spell Highlighting unusual spelling Mnemonics Looking at words within the word Looking at words with similar spelling patterns The categories are as follows: Spelling words using phonic knowledge Words with schwa digraph 1 Words with schwa digraph 2 Words with schwa spelt a Words with schwa spelt e and i Words with schwa spelt o and u Silent letters 1 Silent letters 2 Words with the grapheme ea Words with the grapheme gh Words with the letter string ough Words with the phonemes tch and sh Words with unusual correspondences 1 Words with unusual correspondences 2 Words with unusual correspondences 3 Words with unusual correspondences 4

POWERPOINTS:Each set gives definitions/explanations of each homophone, then ends with an activity for the children to work out which homophone is appropriate in different sentences. For more difficult or confusing homophones there are additional powerpoints with extra sentence practice. Introduction to homophones All Y3 and 4 homophones Set 1 homophones: accept/except,affect/effect,ball/bawl,berry/bury Homophones accept and except Homophones affect and effect Set 2 homophones Set 3 homophones Homophones heel heal and he'll Homophones here and hear Set 4 homophones Set 5 homophones Homophones who's and whose PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Look Write Cover Check x 5: For spelling practice, containing the words in the above PowerPoints Homophone and definitions cards x 5 TEACHER RESOURCES: Adaptable outline plan

POWERPOINT:Explains what they are and how to use them then finishes with an activity to reword sentences and put the apostrophe in the correct place. PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Possessive apostrophes plurals worksheet PLURAL POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHES POSTERS A set of posters for display TEACHER RESOURCES: Adaptable outline plan

POWERPOINT: Looks at all the common words containing these graphemes for the /ai/ phoneme. Ends with a spelling activity. PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Look Write Cover Check: For spelling practice Wordsearch TEACHER RESOURCES: Word list Adaptable outline plan

POWERPOINTS: gue at the end of words que at the end of words PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Look Write Cover Check x 2: For spelling practice Cards with words ending gue gue for the g sound worksheet Cards with words ending que que for the k sound worksheet que for the k sound picture worksheet que and gue wordsearch TEACHER RESOURCES: Word list Adaptable outline plan

POWERPOINT: Explains that these type of words come from the French language. It gives examples of the most common words with this grapheme then ends with a writing activity. PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES: Look Write Cover Check: For spelling practice Ch for the sh sound worksheet Ch for the sh sound picture worksheet Wordsearch TEACHER RESOURCES: Word list Adaptable outline plan