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.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s use of sentence starters in creative writing. There are a number of activities that help children understand the effect their writing has on the reader, which can be taught in a single lesson or spread over a number of sessions.
There are images to give children ideas for their writing, and creative writing challenges based on sentence openings.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
This pack of story planning resources is based on the idea of ‘The Hero’s Journey’, in which the central character of a tale progresses through 12 stages as his or her story unfolds. Once children can recognise this structure in familiar tales, they can use it to plan their own myths, legends or fantasy stories.
Revise Year 4 grammar terms and examples using this fun and challenging tarsia game - perfect for home learning or classroom use!
A tarsia is a simple jigsaw puzzle, in which small equilateral triangles fit together to form one, giant triangle. Here, children need to match grammatical terms with model sentences to complete three separate puzzles.
Templates are also included to allow children to come up with their own model sentences, and create new grammar puzzles for their classmates.
Revise Year 5 grammar terms and examples using this fun and challenging tarsia game - perfect for home learning or classroom use!
A tarsia is a simple jigsaw puzzle, in which small equilateral triangles fit together to form one, giant triangle. Here, children need to match grammatical terms with model sentences to complete three separate puzzles.
Templates are also included to allow children to come up with their own model sentences, and create new grammar puzzles for their classmates.
This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on making plurals by adding ‘s’ or ‘es’, 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
This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on 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
Put an end to ‘definately’ and ‘seperate’ once and for all! This pack provides a number of ways for children to remember and revise how to spell words that are often written incorrectly. 100 of the most commonly misspelt words are presented on:
Bookmarks - these can be given to children, then stuck in books once the spellings have been learnt
Table prompts - place these on tables so children can refer to them when writing
Word mats - ideal for sending home to be studied with parents/carers, or for classroom display
Word fans - a handy reference tool for the whole class
Is the language of SPaG - or GPS, or whatever your school calls it - giving you a headache? This handy booklet, perfect for parents as well as pupils, goes through all the grammar and punctuation terms taught to children in years 3, 4, 5 and 6, with explanations and examples for each… so everyone knows what they’re talking about!
This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using correct punctuation for sentences 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.
In Year 1, pupils need to know the names of the letters of the alphabet and put them in alphabetical order. Children can use our alphabet cards to put letters in order, then use their phonetic knowledge to complete the worksheets.
This reading comprehension for Years 3 and 4 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.
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 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 KS2 PSF word spinner pack helps children identify and use more powerful verbs in their writing, following a fun craft activity.
Templates are included showing interesting synonyms for 10 everyday verbs.
The spinners can be used for matching activities as well as reference tools when children are writing.
Blank templates are also included, allowing children to make their own synonym spinners.
Possible uses
Provide the children with the parts to more than one word spinner and challenge them to find the tops which match each bottom.
Provide the children with the top of a word spinner and a blank bottom. Children can add their own synonyms.
Provide the children with the bottom to a word spinner and a blank top. Challenge them to identify the everyday verb for which all the words shown are synonyms.
Provide children with a word spinner for them to assemble. They can then be challenged to use words from the spinner in their writing over a set period of time.
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
What is a powerful verb?
If verbs describe an action, a powerful verb is a more interesting version of basic verbs that help to make writing more descriptive, exciting and engaging. Learning these will help expand children’s vocabularies and improve their speaking and writing skills.
Powerful verb examples
Sprinted, galloped or strided instead of ran
Shouted, whispered or muttered instead of said
Searched, eyeballed or perused instead of looked
Snoozed, slumbered or dozed instead of slept
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].
In Year 1, pupils learn how to write and punctuate simple sentences. Our poster reminds pupils what a simple sentence needs and the card sort activity and worksheets allow them the opportunity to apply their knowledge creatively.
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 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 modal verbs.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.