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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.
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.
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.
Encourage children to explore more powerful vocabulary when writing with this fun synonyms activity, suitable for Years 2-6. Ideal as a lesson starter, as part of any writing task or for home learning, word webs are also a brilliant way of keeping classroom displays purposeful and interactive.
This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on using capital letters for proper nouns, or to revise the topic with pupils.
It includes:
colourful posters for teaching
a word sort activity
worksheets for children to practise and apply their new grammar knowledge
Use these KS2 comprehension worksheets to learn about the history of the Mary Celeste. This non-fiction text tells the story of the ship from its first voyage under the name of the ‘Amazon’ through to its ill fated end.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
A KS2 non-fiction text on Laika – the first living creature to be sent into space.
This can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework. Also included are 12 comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of data retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
This non-fiction information text covers Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Ideal for KS2, it can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework.
A worksheet with 12 comprehension questions is included, which covers the different reading skills of data retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
This KS2 model text pack contains three Norse legends. These can be used to familiarise the children with characters from Norse mythology.
The stories included in this pack are:
The Building of Asgard’s wall
How Thor regained Mjölnir
The Mead of Poetry
A great way to support planning stories with structures.
It has often been suggested that there are only seven basic plots a story can use. This pack contains five story summaries, each covering a different plot type. The pack contains text summaries for five examples of the seven basic plot types.
Overcoming the monster
Rags to riches
The quest
Voyage and return
Rebirth
After familiarising themselves with these texts, children can adapt and change these stories to create tales of their own.
These spelling review worksheets, covering the Year 2 suffixes -ed, -ing, -er and -est, are an excellent way to revise and practise these word endings.
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 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These review worksheets, which show that the ‘or’ sound can be spelt ‘a’ before ‘l’ or ‘ll’, provide an excellent way to revise and practise this Year 2 spelling pattern.
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 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This pack contains 14 interactive posters illustrating Year 2 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images. Each image illustrates a word that includes the same spelling pattern.
There are two versions of each poster. Posters with text – the images on these posters are labelled with the word they are illustrating. Posters without text – the images on these posters are not labelled so that children can look at the pictures and try and identify the words they represent and the spelling pattern or patterns common to them all.
There are also graphics for you to make your own posters, which can be cut out and arranged in different patterns on the classroom wall.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
The ‘j’ sound spelt ‘ge’ and ‘dge’ at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as ‘g’ elsewhere in words before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘n’ sound spelt ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ at the beginning of words
*The ‘r’ sound spelt ‘wr’ at the beginning of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –le at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –el at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –al at the end of words
Words ending –il
The ‘ai’ sound spelt ‘y’ at the end of words
Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in ‘y’
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in ‘y’ with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
This pack contains six SATs style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The spelling patterns covered on this Year 4 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one
Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’
Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
Understand and add suffix -ation,
Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que
Spell homophones and near-homophones
Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4
Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 3 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 3 spelling words are covered across 11 challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.
The spelling patterns covered are:
use the prefix un-, dis-, mis-, re-
add suffixes with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
add the suffix -ly
spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
spell homophones
spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words.
spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’
Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 6 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
The spelling patterns covered are:
use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
understand and use the suffix -ation
add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
spell homophones and near homophones
spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals
understand and use the word ‘ous’
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Abominable Snowman. The text covers sighting and photographs, related geography and famous explorers who claim to have seen evidence of its existence.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
This KS2 story writing inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a science fiction theme.
The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way.
The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail.
The resources include:
A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text
Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories
Images to use as posters
This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on expanded noun phrases. As well as learning how to identify and construct expanded noun phrases, 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
Expanded noun phrase worksheets
Noun cards
Upleveling sentences worksheets
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of persuasive writing in KS2. There are a number of activities that demonstrate different types of persuasive writing, along with a model text, examples of adverts, and writing challenges.
There are images to included to help inspire children’s writing, as well as sentences for the children to rewrite and improve upon.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
This Greek myth, retelling the tale of the Minotaur and how it was defeated by the Greek hero Theseus, can be used to test reading comprehension skills in KS2. It also provides a model text and prompts for writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 17 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.