An activity to encourage children to think and collect alternative words for imperative verbs of direction. Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 7 Africa- The Gambia includes links to Geography, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Science and Art. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 6 Pirates includes links to writing, listening and speaking, DT, Art, Science and physical development. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave a review.

Get the full unit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-information-texts-unit-skimming-and-scanning-12330609 This lesson focuses on the features or signposts of information texts. It will lead the children to use the skill of skim-reading to help them to evaluate the usefulness of information texts and to speed up their investigative reading. The more fun the children have within this lesson, the easier they will find it to use and appreciate the skill they are learning. Depending on the class dynamic, this lesson could be made into one big competition with time limits and/or point systems for each activity. WALT • Spot and talk about different parts of information texts, so we can use them to help us find specific information. • Make up questions about a topic and learn to skim read, so we can find out the general idea of the text. Leave a review

Enjoy the first chapter of this fantastic children's fiction text - Milad: The Voyage to Ophir.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents a structured day with fun and engaging activities for their little ones. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities. It includes all resources to complete, with helpful hyperlinks to complete. The tasks are designed to get children engaged. Day 1 includes links to DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Science.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 2 Inventors includes links to DT, Art, Writing, Reading, History and Science. All resources included. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Share your thoughts by leaving us a review.

A crossword to use in conjunction with Treasure Island unit. Leave a review

This resource includes 1 text with activities and questions. Text title: PE picture dictionary The cards primarily address text-level objectives for each year group and focus specifically on reading comprehension of non-fiction texts. The cards are designed to encourage talk and develop listening and speaking skills. There is a main text on the front of each of the reading cards. The main text is followed by talk time , where there are open-ended questions, which are designed to stimulate a personal response to the issues raised and encourage children to think about the card’s theme. The questions encourage discussion between two to six people. Talk time questions that are preceded by a require children to refer back to the text and are suitable for prompting children’s written responses. The box contains an interesting fact related to the card’s theme. This should appeal to the children’s sense of wonder and fascination for the remarkable. The reverse side of each card carries things to do box. This contains activities and challenges that are designed to enable children to pursue the main theme still further. The activities are mainly practical in nature, so that all children can succeed, whatever their levels of literacy Leave a review

See the full Instructions unit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-instructions-unit-12330446 One lesson with plan and resources Good for introducing the topic of instructions WALT: Listen to instructions. • Follow instructions and give instructions on how to move. Focus on speaking and listening skills by getting the children to follow a chant. Leave a review

This sheet has been taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Encourages children to think about the Features of a Comedy. It links to You Can’t Bring That in Here by Robert Swindells. But activity can be used without this book and can link to any comedy. Dialogue: the repetition of ‘you can’t bring that in here’ which is then used by the gorilla at the end. – Vocabulary: funny similes, for example, ‘the sofa looked like a tatty boat afloat on a sea of can rings and screwed-up crisp packets’. – Action: Jimmy swapping a number of ‘normal’ animals, ending up with a talking gorilla. – Authorial voice: use of the third person makes the reader sympathise with Jimmy and ridicules Osbert.

Promote book talk for all ages with this helpful worksheet. Leave a review

Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File The sheet gets the children to recount the scene where Beowulf slaughters Fiend. Encourages children’s word choice. Leave a review

8 Activities for Years 1 or 2 linked to the study of 1950’s Britain. Activity 1: My Kitchen Today Activity 2: Understanding a 1950’s Kitchen Activity 3: Let’s Go Food Shopping in the 1950’s Activity 4: Favourite Food now and then Activity 5: New Toy, Old Toy (Sort the cards into the box 2 sheet activity). Activity 6: Draw your home Activity 7: Understanding the Names of Different Homes All worksheets can be done as homework or for home learning. Taken from the KS1 History Resources File (available to purchase on our website). Leave a review

Includes: Sheet 1: Tense – to change the tense of verbs. Sheet 2: Tense Challenge – to change the tense of verbs. Sheet 3: Tense Challenge – to keep the same tense throughout a piece of writing. Sheet 4:Tense Challenge – to change irregular verbs to the past tense. Taken from our Grammar and Creativity Year 3 book. Easy to follow and use. Leave a review

Includes Poster: Understanding Clauses – explanation. Sheet 1: Clauses – to identify the main clause and subordinate clause. Sheet 2: Clauses Challenge – to add a main clause to complete a sentence. Sheet 3: Clauses Challenge – to create complex sentences by adding subordinate clauses. Sheet 4: Relative Pronouns – to recognise and use relative pronouns. Sheet 5: Relative Pronoun Challenge – to drop in clauses beginning with who, when, where, which, that. Taken from LCP’s Grammar and Creativity Year 4 book Easy to follow Leave a review

3 worksheets focuses on the teaching of adverbs Sheet 1: to revise adverbs of manner Sheet 2: to revise adverbs of time, frequency and place. Sheet 3: to investigate how adverbs can affect adjectives Taken from Grammar and Creativity Year 6 (by LCP) Clear sheets that have instructions so easily to follow. Leave a review

4 worksheets and 1 poster Designed to support the teaching of Commas. Sheet 1: to revise commas and full stops. Sheet 2: to explore the ways commas help to create meaning in a sentence. Sheet 3: to use commas to avoid ambiguity Sheet 4: to use commas to punctuate speech Taken from LCP’s Grammar and Creativity Year 5 book. Leave a review

5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school. Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 3. These worksheets include: Instructions and templates to make a cardboard contours island (2 sheets) River bend investigation River speed investigation Understanding Cities in the UK.

Get the whole book via our TES shop 15 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Compound Words – to investigate compound words. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to improve my vocabulary. Nouns – to revise word classes – nouns. Nouns – to recognise abstract nouns. Suffixes – to use suffixes: ship, ment, hood, ness. Pronouns – to revise word classes – pronoun. Possessive Pronouns – to use possessive pronouns correctly. Determiners – to explore determiners. Verbs – to revise word classes – verbs. Verbs – to choose the correct form of a verb. Verbs Challenge – to correct past tense verb endings. Prefixes – to use the prefix: re. Adjectives – to revise word classes – adjectives. . Adjectives Challenge – to revise word classes – adjectives Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review