Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Proofreading and editing work is an important part of the writing process. Use our edit rating worksheet and display posters to create an editing station in your own classroom, and to help pupils evaluate and edit previous pieces of writing -both their own and others’ - at the start of English lessons.
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using brackets in Year 5. It is divided into five sections: understand, challenge, test, explain and apply.
Activities include SATs style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
Key Stage 2 English worksheets
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using antonyms in Y6.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
Understand
Match words with their antonyms and find two antonyms for the words given
Challenge
Rewrite the example sentences, replacing each of the words in bold with an antonym
Test
Circle the antonym for each word below. Then circle two words in each sentence that are antonyms of each other
Explain
Write an explanation of the difference between antonyms and synonyms, using at least two examples
Apply
Write a description of the scene shown, using as many antonyms of the four words given as possible
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
What is an antonym?
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word.
Antonym examples
Fast and slow
Big and small
Light and dark
Good and bad
Up and down
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Children will learn how words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms [for example, big, large, little].
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using verbs in Year 2. It is divided into five sections: understand, challenge, test, explain and apply.
Activities include SATs style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using subordinating clauses in Year 3. It is divided into five sections: understand, challenge, test, explain and apply.
Activities include SATs style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This classic texts challenge pack provides a quick burst of comprehension practice - ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text.
Each challenge includes a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key skills of inference, information retrieval and vocabulary use. The classic texts in this pack are:
The stories included are:
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
This Greek myth retells the tale of how Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to man. It can be used to test comprehension skills, including inference, and as a model text for story planning and 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, including Tier 2 words.
A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Greek myth.
These worksheets review the grammar and punctuation objectives covered during Year 4. They are an excellent way to identify areas of strength or weakness in preparation for the next school year, and to revise this content before SATs in Year 6.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
These worksheets review the grammar and punctuation objectives covered during Year 5. They are an excellent way to identify areas of strength or weakness in preparation for the next school year, and to revise this content before SATs in Year 6.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
These worksheets, covering homophones ending in -ce and -se, are an excellent way for children in Years 5 and 6 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.
The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This worksheet is an excellent way for KS2 pupils to revise and practise recognising and using hyperboles. It contains examples of hyperboles and five different challenges, which can be tackled during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This lyrical retelling of the Greek myth about the master craftsman Daedalus and his son, Icarus, can be used to test comprehension skills and as a model text for writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 19 reading comprehension questions. These target key comprehension skills such as: retrieving information, sequencing, predicting, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.
A planning sheet is included, so that children can produce their own Greek myth, using the model text for structure.
These worksheets review the grammar and punctuation objectives covered during Year 3. They are an excellent way to identify areas of strength or weakness in preparation for the next school year, and to revise this content before SATs in Year 6.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
Use this KS2 grammar game to help introduce Year 4 children to fronted adverbials, and to revise the topic with Years 5 and 6.
The activity pack contains more than 100 fronted adverbial sentence starters grouped into categories of ‘how’, ‘where’ and ‘when’. Also included are clauses which can be matched to the fronted adverbials to create sentences.
Teaching ideas:
Children can sort the fronted adverbials into categories, and add their own to the lists
Children can match fronted adverbials with clauses to create sentences (including silly ones!)
Children can use the fronted adverbial cards to start their own sentences
The cards are great for display, too!
These worksheets, covering the ‘s’ sound spelt ‘sc’, are an excellent way for children in Years 3 and 4 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.
The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This spelling Bingo game is a fun way to support children in Year 6 to practise and master key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.
This reading comprehension for Years 1 and 2 focuses on the life and work of Florence Nightingale, and her impact on nursing and hospitals - building children’s skills of recall and inference, and enhancing their vocabulary.
Each challenge includes a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key skills of inference, information retrieval and vocabulary use. The classic texts in this pack are:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
This Coyote tale, from the canon of Native American mythology, retells the story of how Coyote stole fire from the fire beings to give to man. It can be used to test comprehension skills and for SATs preparation. 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.
An ideas sheet is included, to help children plan out their own Coyote legend.
Support teaching of phase 5 phonics with this pack of five illustrated and easily differentiated worksheets. The activities allow pupils to develop their comprehension skills, applying their blending skills to read and understand sentences and produce responses in a range of ways, including drawing and original writing.
Four further phase 5 comprehension packs are available.