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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 writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using assonance in KS2. It contains examples of assonance and 5 different assonance 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 writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using consonance in KS2. It contains examples of assonance and 5 different assonance challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
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Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using alliteration in KS2. It contains examples of alliteration and 5 different alliteration 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 pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 2 spelling test are:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -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
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
This Year 5 spelling patterns pack contains 10 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the explorer Marco Polo. The non-fiction fact sheet includes information on subjects such as The Silk Road, Polo’s life in Cathay and his eventual return to Italy.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This is a great resource for topics on famous lives and famous explorers.
These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words spelt with ‘ei’, ‘ey’ or ‘eigh’, 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.
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
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.
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.
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 ‘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 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.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of complex sentences. There are a number of activities that demonstrate what a complex sentence is, and give students the opportunity to write their own.
There are images to included to help inspire children’s writing, as well as prompts and partial sentences for them to complete.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 6 spelling test are:
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer.
Use prefixes involving the use of a hyphen
Distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
Uncommon or more ambitious vocabulary
Use this KS2 grammar game to help children explore different ways of starting sentences.
There are two sets of cards - blue and yellow. The blue cards contains examples of adverbs, conjunctions, onomatopoeia, prepositions, questions, similes and verbs that can be used to start a sentence. The yellow cards contains clauses which can be added to the blue sentence starters. Not all yellow and blue pairs match.
Children can experiment with matching the cards, or coming up with their own sentence starters or endings.
This Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using questions in Year 2.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
Children will need to investigate and define different uses of questions, and there are images to prompt creative written responses.