This Celtic Legend retells the tale of how Cúchulainn defended Ulster during the cattle raid of Cooley. It 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 Celtic legend.

This Greek Myth tale, retelling the tale of Orpheus’ quest to the Underworld, 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 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 Greek Myth.

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on powerful verbs. It opens up discussions about word choices and how choosing the right verb can change the impact a sentence has on the reader. It explores synonyms and, for example, different words to use instead of ‘said’. Activities include challenges such as writing a five sentence story about an image, using at least three powerful verbs, and playing verb charades. 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: Whole-class PowerPoint Powerful verb worksheets Powerful verb cards sets Five images for writing inspiration A writing planning sheet An upleveling writing worksheet

This pack contains five interactive KS inference posters illustrating different ways that children can use context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to illustrate this strategy. Blank balloon templates and wall display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas on your wall display. The posters included in this pack are: Conjunctions Inference Definition Example Antonym Synonym Also included in the pack are 20 unfamiliar words with their definitions so that children can use these to create their own inference sentences.

This KS1 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on the past and present tense. As well as using examples to establish what the past and present tense should look like, there are card sorting activities and sentences with errors to correct - all of which leads to a piece of creative writing about being shipwrecked on a desert island. 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 Tenses worksheet Irregular verb cards Writing plan Upleveling sentences worksheet

This pack contains six posters illustrating different ways a writer can show a character’s feelings instead of telling the reader how that character is feeling. Each poster uses an arresting image. These are accompanied by text boxes or word balloons which include example text to illustrate the skill being taught. Blank balloon templates enable you to use the children’s own ideas and add to the existing examples. There are three versions of each poster: Completed poster - these writing posters can go straight on your classroom wall. The image is accompanied by text which illustrates ‘show’ words or phrases for an emotion. Blank poster - these posters are blank and ready for the class to add their own text in the blank speech bubbles provided. These can then be arranged around the poster. Our example text bubbles can be included as well. Pupil worksheets - These templates are blank except for the image at the centre of the page. Children can use the blank boxes to add their own ‘show’ sentences.

This pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating different ways in which a writer can begin a story in an engaging way in KS2 English lessons. Each poster uses an arresting image to suggest a story and these are accompanied by model opening sentences. Children can use these sentences as inspiration and they can be magpied as a structure for similar opening sentences to hook in the reader. Blank word balloon templates enable you to use the children’s own ideas for display - pupils can find great opening sentences in books they have read and add these to the posters in the balloons provided. There are two versions of each poster: Completed poster - these writing posters can go straight onto your classroom wall. The image is accompanied by model text opening sentences for a story start device. Blank poster - these posters are blank and ready for the class to add their own text in the blank speech bubbles provided. These can then be arranged around the poster. Our example text bubbles can be included as well. Also included are: Pupil worksheets - these templates are blank except for the image at the centre of the page. Children can use the blank boxes to add their own story starter sentences.

Help children learn how to spell the words from the Year 3 and Year 4 word lists with these crosswords. Not only are these a fun way to test and improve children’s spelling skills, the clues help to clarify word meanings, developing vocabulary and enabling children to use these words more confidently in their writing. The pack contains six crosswords and answer sheets are included.

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s descriptive writing skills when it comes to creating tone. 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 sections of model text that demonstrate how an author’s choices can change the tone of the text. It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.

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 contains 12 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 ‘or’ sound spelt a before l and ll The ‘u’ sound spelt o The long ‘e’ sound spelt –ey The ‘o’ sound spelt a after w and qu The ‘er’ sound spelt or after w The ‘or’ sound spelt ar after w The ‘zh’ sound spelt s The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly Contractions Possessive apostrophes Words ending in -tion Homophones and near homophones

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on adjectives. As well as learning about the purpose and usage of adjectives, 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 Adjectives worksheets Noun cards Writing plan Upleveling sentences worksheets

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on cohesive devices in fiction. Model texts can be used to clarify what a cohesive device is and to illustrate how it can improve a piece of writing. There are activities for the children to complete in task, which build to pupils using cohesive devices to create their own story that creates tension. 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: Whole-class PowerPoint Selkie story model texts Cohesion within paragraphs worksheet Five image cards Little Red Riding Hood storyboard Jack and the Beanstalk text for uplevelling writing

Using these KS2 English worksheets, children can gain a greater understanding of rhyming couplets and use this knowledge to create their own. Activities encourage children to identifiy and correct rhyming couplets or verses where rhyming couplets do not scan well due to line length, choice of rhyme or a change in topic. Different prompts then encourage the children to get creative and write their own rhyming couplets and verses. The worksheet contains five different challenges, which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions. Questions encourage creative responses and interesting images are used to stimulate ideas.

Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence §; combine amounts to make a particular value. These money worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 2 children. A variety of money problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions. A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.

These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving. Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking. National Curriculum Links Year 1 Measurement – Measure and begin to record the following: capacity and volume. Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: capacity and volume (for example, full/empty, more than, less than, quarter, half full, half). Maths Focus Children will estimate and measure the capacity of a range of containers, using a variety of non-standard units. Maths Mastery Children can estimate and measure the capacity of a range of containers, using non-standard units such as cups and scoops. Children are aware of the need to measure using uniform units, and they understand the effect of altering the size of the units used.

These km to miles worksheets provide extra challenge for Y6 children. A variety of problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a single lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions, or home learning. Y6 maths objective: convert between miles and kilometres.

Combine design and technology with maths and English at KS1 and KS2, by getting children to make their own never-ending cards, which can be continually be folded to reveal different surfaces. The resource pack includes the templates you need to make a never-ending card, a video you can show the class with step-by-step instructions, and maths and English resources for KS1 and KS1 that can be added to the cards to turn them into fun and effective revision tools for the classroom and at home.

This powerful KS2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on relative clauses in Year 5, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.

This powerful KS2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on modal verbs, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.