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.
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 the co-ordinating conjunction ‘and’ to join words and clauses, or to revise the topic with pupils.
These challenging, fun worksheets offer quick grammar practice for pupils in KS1 and KS2. Three versions of the activity are available, differentiated for Year 2, Years 3/4 and Years 5/6. Each worksheet revises key grammar skills for the curriculum to ensure skills and terminology are revisited regularly – providing a perfect activity to use as an English lesson starter or at any point during the school day.
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.
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using adjectives 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 year 2 common exception word (CEW) pack allows pupils to practise reading and spelling a selection of the 64 tricky words. Each worksheet includes two or three words for pupils to read, spell and understand, with an opportunity to develop letter formation using handwriting line guides.
Common exception words included in this pack are:
both, old
cold, gold
every, everybody
hold, told
most, only
The activities in this pack help KS2 children understand the subtle differences between adjective synonyms so that they can use them accurately in their own writing. They include cards for sorting, and cloze procedure worksheets.
This primary resource pack includes:
Description synonyms worksheet
Each page contains synonyms for a different word, such as ‘big’, ‘young’ and ‘loud’, and children need to fill in the blanks in sentences using the synonyms where they fit best
Description synonyms answer sheet
Description synonyms word cards
Printable PDFs to cut out and use
Teacher notes
What is a synonym?
A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase.
Synonym examples
Nice and kind
Big and large
Tiny and minute
Quick and fast
Smelly and stinky
Thrilling and exciting
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Students will learn how words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms [for example, big, large, little].
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
These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words ending in -sure or -ture’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these spellings.
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 3 and Year 4 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
Teach pupils where to use capital letters and full stops in their simple sentences. Eye-catching posters show how this punctuation is used and the card sort activity and worksheets allow pupils to apply their skills.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using prepositions.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This teaching resource is a great support for reading, analysing and writing Norse legends in KS2.
It contains fact sheets on:
The major Norse gods
Mythical creatures
Settings in Norse mythology
Magical artefacts
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using verb suffixes.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using similes in KS2 English. It contains examples of similes and 5 different simile challenges, which can be used 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 review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using synonyms.
These worksheets are divided into 5 different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using fronted adverbials.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using subordinating conjunctions.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using modal verbs.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using formal and informal writing.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using relative clauses.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.