Theseus & The Minotaur - Comprehension and Text. A superb 3-page booklet containing: A passage from the story ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’. A 2-page booklet of comprehension questions based on the passage. Fully editable.

Can your student’s find the punctuation and spelling errors in the attached passage all about light? 1 worksheet. Fully editable. Answers provided.

Nouns and Adjectives Warm Up Game. Fully editable.

Worksheets and PowerPoints attached. Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability).

Focus: Writing Slogans What is a slogan? A short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising. 2-page activity booklet. Ideal for 7+ Fully editable.

A simple PowerPoint (4 slides) demonstrating CAUSE and EFFECT. Fully editable.

Attached are 42 ‘VCOP’ (fully editable) games and activity suggestions. . Resource 1: A 26-page booklet containing 26 VCOP games & activity-suggestions Page 3: VCOP Games (13 games) Page 7: Connectives ‘Quick Fire’ Activities (4 activities) Page 13: Openers Activity (1 activity) Page 15: Punctuation Activity (1 activity) Page 19: Vocabulary Activities (7 activities) . Resource 2: A 16-page booklet containing 16 VCOP games & activity-suggestions. A ‘mixture’ of VCOP activities . Resource 3: Also attached is a an activity for the children to make their own VCOP pyramid.

3 differentiated place mats to use when writing stories. Higher Ability, Middle Ability and Lower Ability place mats. Helpful words, ideas and phrases to incorporate into a story. Ideal for 6 - 11 years. Fully editable.

Teach your students to write ‘complex sentences’ using these 2 straightforward PowerPoint presentations. I’ve also attached 2 differentiated ‘clauses’ worksheets.

Assessing Reading. Pupil Self-Assessment - Tracking progress sheet. Pupils can self assess their own reading attainment using the following progress indicators: I can do this very well. I can do this quite well. Not bad, not fantastic. I need to practise a bit more. I need to practise this a lot more. Fully editable.

Focus: WORD KNOWLEDGE and DICTIONARY SKILLS. Learning Intention: To predict and clarify. Activity: Student’s must find a word they are unfamiliar with, predict what it means then clarify using a dictionary. Great activity for exploring and deepening vocabulary knowledge. Ideal for 7+ (depending on ability). Fully editable.

Activity: Write names in alphabetical order. PDF and Word formats attached. Fully editable.

Students can summarise a text by identifying the key features. 1 worksheet. Fully editable. Ideal for 5 to 9 years.

A list of high frequency words for Reception and KS1. Fully editable.

A great game to develop inference skills. 10 slides. Ideal age range: 8+ Fully editable. Instructions: One student will be chosen as ‘the guesser’. They will sit under the interactive whiteboard. The teacher will flash one word on the screen. Students in the audience will try to describe a time when they felt this way. They may NOT use the word on the screen! The guesser will try to guess the word on screen.

Attached is a 3-page INFERENCE activity booklet. Activity: Students must read through a variety of situations (15 in total) and choose the most appropriate outcome for each. 3 pages. Ideal for 7+. Fully editable.

2 activities for students to complete BEFORE and AFTER reading Fiction. Activities can be used as ‘link’ activities in Guided Reading or just a ‘stand alone’ activities. Appropriate for 5 - 11 years. Fully editable.

Subject: Reading Focus: Visualisation. Visualisation is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. 3 great worksheets - The 5 senses, Hiding activity and Visualisation worksheet. 5 pages in total. 7 - 11 years. Fully editable.

3 resources attached. A 2-page booklet focusing on activating prior knowledge by make connections with the front cover of a book. A 1-page prior knowledge chart to complete - questions to complete before and after reading a text. 10 objectives to focus on when focusing on prior knowledge. Fully editable resources.

Activity: Describe the imaginary worlds. Students must write a description of each setting as though it is a paragraph in a story. Students should use adjectives to describe the scene. What are the characters doing? Where are they going? Who lives there? Students must try to create a mood and ‘paint a picture with words’ for the reader so that they can easily visualise each setting in their heads.