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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 pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating Year 5 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images, each of which demonstrates a different spelling pattern.
A version of the posters without text is also included, so that children can look at the pictures and add their own labels, once they have indentified the correct word. And there are posters without pictures or text which can be used as templates for pupils to develop their own spelling wall displays.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
word endings which sound like ‘shush’ spelt -cious or -tious
word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
words with ‘silent’ letters
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice the -fer suffix in Years 3 and 4.
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.
This KS2 science resource enables teachers to review learning having taught a topic on animals including humans in Year 6. It covers areas on the science curriculum including circulation, digestions, major organs, the heart and healthy lifestyles.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientific vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 5 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
The spelling patterns covered are:
word endings which sound like ‘shuss’ spelt -cious or -tious
word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
words ending in -ant, ance/ancy, -ent, -ence/-ency
words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
words containing the letter string ‘ough’
words with silent letters
words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
This Y2 assessment worksheet for contractions is an excellent way to revise and practise spellings involving these words.
The resource include 5 different activities in which primary children look at spelling patterns, identify mispelt words and apply their knowledge of spellings in context.
These spelling review worksheets, covering Year 2 contractions, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
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.
Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on dinosaurs. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about dinosaurs. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. There are blank posters too so you can customise and create your own display.
The posters include these dinosaurs:
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Triceratops
Stegosaurus
Pteradactylus
Diplodocus
Ankylosaurus
These Year 3 spelling review worksheets, covering words containing ‘ch’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
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 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These review worksheets, covering words which include the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘o’, are an excellent way to revise and practise spelling.
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 spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 5 and above in practising key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.
Included in this pack are:
30 bingo cards, each containing 16 words containing spelling patterns from Year 2.
1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.
The spelling patterns covered in this pack include:
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 spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 3 and above in practising key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.
Included in this pack are:
30 bingo cards each containing 9 words containing a Year 3 spelling pattern.
1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.
The spelling patterns covered in this pack include:
dis- prefix
mis- prefix
re- prefix
un- prefix
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
Add the suffix -ly
Words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Homophones
Words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’
These Year 5 and Year 6 review worksheets, covering the spelling pattern ‘i’ before ‘c’ except after ‘c’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
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. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice words where the ‘r’ sound is spelt ‘wr’.
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 5 interactive posters illustrating Year 6 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:
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer
Use prefixes involving the use of a hyphen
Homophones and other words which are often confused
Uncommon or ambitious vocabulary
Etymophagy and morophology
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice adding suffixes that begin with a vowel to words with more than one syllable.
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.
This comic book comprehension resource is great for reluctant readers and more fluent pupils alike. It helps children become familiar with narrative structures and once this knowledge is embedded it can be transferred to more stretching contexts.
This KS1 and KS2 reading comprehension resource includes:
Three Beano comic strips
Three reading comprehension question worksheets
Comic puzzles for working on narrative sequence
Blank comic template
It’s an enjoyable way for all children to develop their comprehension and inference skills.
An information text on the 8 known planets and 5 dwarf planets. This can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework.
Included are 12 comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of data retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and test the Year 3 and 4 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 3 and 4 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
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This KS2 grammar teaching sequence for modal verbs has been designed to help children revisit and remember a key grammatical concept from the National Curriculum programme of study.
The session provides a motivating and memorable image to stimulate discussion, before introducing the grammar element. Children have time to practise using this feature, before undertaking a short writing task to apply what they have learnt in the context of creative writing.
The resource includes teacher notes and a pupil worksheet.
This KS2 inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a spooky story theme.
In order for children to write engaging stories, they need to be able to visualise the settings and objects they might use in their tales. 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
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the climate change activist Greta Thunberg – looking at everything from her childhood through to her early achievements and possible future role.
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 PSHE lessons, where children can discuss if it is possible to make a difference.