These review worksheets for Years 5 and 6 provide an excellent way to practise spelling words with the -cial or -tial suffix. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

This KS2 English pack contains three interactive posters illustrating different ways to use creative magery in writing. Each poster is based on an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain this idea. These word balloons are optional. Blank balloon templates enable you to use the children’s own ideas, or to add to the existing examples. It’s an ideal resource for starting up conversations about the choices we make as writers, and what effect these choices have on readers. The writing techniques demonstrated in this pack are: *Metaphors *Similes *Personification

*This Upper KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using homophones. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. * Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.

These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice Year 5 and Year 6 words ending in -cious and -tious. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

A pack designed to support teaching reading skills in preparation for the end of KS2 SATs reading test. It should be used in conjunction with the 2018 KS2 reading test materials. This pack contains: Lesson plans The pack is made up of three lessons. Each of these focuses on a different reading skill, and prepares children for the test by enabling them to gain confidence in these key areas. The children complete simple activities based on that skill before answering practice questions. Following a review of the question answers, the children can then complete the relevant questions on the past SATs paper. Lesson 1 – 2b – Retrieve and record information / identify key details from fiction and non-fiction. Lesson 2 – 2a – Give / explain the meaning of words in context. Lesson 3 – 2d – Make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text. Practice questions and additional resources are included for each lesson. PowerPoint A slideshow to support the teaching of the three reading lessons.

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of story settings and descriptions in KS2. There are a number of activities that demonstrate how authors create and evoke settings, with model texts for children to discuss and comment on. The resource includes some inspiring images of settings for children to write about and English lessons. It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.

*Support children’s writing with this Wild West fact file. It includes a great selection of images and facts that will help pupils create a convincing historial setting for their stories. It includes information about food, transport, communication, jobs, shops, leisure and the dangers of the Wild West - everything they need to produce great creative writing. *

This Coyote tale, retelling the tale of how Coyote stole the sun and moon, can be used to test comprehension skills in KS2.It also provides a model text and prompts for writing activities. The text is accompanied by 20 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary. A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Coyote tale.

This pack contains posters and cards illustrating 19 different prepositions to support activities in KS2 GPS lessons. There are two versions of each poster: Labelled – each image is accompanied with the preposition it is illustrating. Unlabelled – the pictures appear without text. Children can then be challenged to identify the preposition each poster represents There are four sizes of each poster: Table use – these cards can be used at a table to support writing. Completed poster – these SPaG posters can go straight onto your classroom wall. The image is accompanied by a label. Blank poster – the posters here are blank and ready for your class to add their own text in the speech bubbles provided. These can then be arranged around the poster. Giant poster – a large version of the blank poster. This can be printed off in four parts and assembled to create a larger display. Blank speech bubbles are also included in the pack.

These Y2 spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice words where the long ‘i’ sound is spelt ‘y’. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

These Y2 spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice words where the long ‘e’ sound is spelt ‘ey’. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

These Y2 spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice words where the ‘zh’ sound is spelt ‘s’. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

This rhyming Bingo pack supports KS1 children in recognising and learning rhyming pairs. The pack contains games that can be played as a class or in smaller groups. Included in this pack are: 30 bingo cards each containing nine words 1 tick-list with words that rhyme with those on the 30 bingo cards

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on apostrophes for possession. As well as learning where to place apostrophes correctly, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work. The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons. The resources included in this pack are: PowerPoint Apostrophes for possession challenge worksheets Noun cards A writing plan Upleveling sentences worksheet

This lower KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on how using pronouns can improve cohesion in writing. As well as revisiting how to identify pronouns, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work. The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternatively, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time, or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons. The resources included in this pack are: PowerPoint pronouns to aid cohesion worksheet image cards writing plan uplevelling writing worksheet

This Y3 spelling, punctuation and grammar revision worksheet opens up plenty of ways to practise root words and word families in KS2 English lessons. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions, and there are engaging images to inspire children’s responses to the questions.

The resources in this word family pack will help children in KS1 to practise recognising letter patterns. The resource includes: Word family posters – which are colour coded according to the vowel with which the letter string starts. Letter cards – these cards present the letter string in the centre of the card. Space is left around the letter string so that children can write words containing the letter string around it. Alternately, children could stick the word cards (see below) in this space. Word cards – these cards each contain a word from the posters. Children can investigate sorting these into piles according to their shared letter string.

Help children practise and identify common letter strings in one syllable words using these word wheels. Children turn the wheels to see how different prefixes and suffixes create different words, and how the same spelling patterns apply to groups of words. Word Wheels covering 28 letter strings are included, such as words ending in ‘ab’, ‘ip’ and ‘ell’. The spinners are colour coded to identify the vowel with which each letter string begins. Blank templates are also included so that children can create their own word spinners.

The Victorian idioms in this pack are a fun and interactive way to practise inference and reading comprehension skills. For example, did you know that if a Victorian were to say ““Nanty narking”” they would mean something is ‘great fun’. Children can also enhance their writing by adding idioms or extra detail to stories which take place in historical settings. The pack contains: Victorian phrase cards – the cards are presented on separate pieces of paper so that they can be shared amongst pupils in a group. Children can discuss the meaning of these phrases out of context. Also included are larger versions of the idioms so that they can be used for display. Victorian phrase definitions – these definition cards can be matched up to the Victorian idioms. These definitions are available in a small size for sharing at a table and also for display. Victorian phrase answer sheet – this sheet presents the Victorian idioms with their definition. Victorian phrase sentence worksheets – children can read the idioms in context and then try to infer their meaning. Two worksheets using different Victorian phrases are included.

The Wild West idioms in this pack are a fun and interactive way to practise reading inference skills. For example, if in the Wild West is ‘stringing a whizzer’ it means they’re telling a tall tale. Children can also enhance their writing by adding idioms or extra detail to stories which take place in historical settings. The pack contains: Wild West phrase cards – the cards are presented on separate pieces of paper so that they can be shared amongst pupils in a group. Children can discuss the meanings of these phrases out of context. Also included are larger versions of the idioms so that they can be used for display. Wild West phrase definitions – these definition cards can be matched up to the Wild West idioms. These definitions are available in a small size for sharing at a table, and also in a larger size for display. Wild West phrase answer sheet – this sheet presents the Wild West idioms with their definitions. Wild West phrase sentence worksheets – children can read the idioms in context and then try to infer their meaning. Two worksheets using different Wild West phrases are included.