This full lesson resource is designed to teach Year 3/4 national curriculum spelling rules for adding -ous as well as expanding children’s knowledge and understanding of these words. It is a fun and active lesson whereby children find synonyms for their -ous words. There are decodable synonyms for children who may struggle to read the -ous words with the definitions and model sentences. Resources Included are: -Teacher notes -Templates for adding post it notes in 2 sizes -Words to print on to post it notes in 2 sizes -Lesson presentation -Link for editing the presentation The lesson could be used to introduce the spelling rules for adding the -ous suffix or as a way to reteach and recap.

This pack contains all you need to teach an outstanding Y2 or 3 writing lesson that includes a SPAG focus and differentiation. The main lesson focus is applying the spelling patterns to add suffixes beginning with vowels- ed, ing, er, est. I used this with my class and the outcomes were really lovely, The children could all achieve it since it’s a well scaffolded lesson and they finished with poems they were really proud of. Resources included: -A fully editable powerpoint presentation -A detailed lesson plan with space for you to add your own teaching notes -A fully editable word document learning objective sheet to stick into books or on to lined paper differentiated 2 ways -A word bank to support children in the first task -A beautiful publishing template with 4 different designs for children to choose from -A supported publishing template for children working towards ARE -A second word bank to support the main writing task