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This resource contains two worksheets on similes and metaphors. Tasks include identifying similes and metaphors and composing similes and metaphors.
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Similes and Metaphors - Set of 16 Worksheets
This resource contains 16 worksheets. Tasks and activities include:
Identifying similes and metaphors in sentences and poetry and literature from The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, Sea Fever by John Masefield, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, several Bible verses and Shakespeare quotes.
Composing sentences and short paragraphs containing similes and metaphors on themes including foggy day, the haunted house, the snow, the combine harvester, candle flame, trees, hate, love, happiness.
There is also a poster on the difference between similes and metaphors and an explanation sheet with examples of metaphors and similes and the difference between them.
Similes and Metaphors PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a 39 slide PowerPoint lesson on similes and metaphors.
The PowerPoint includes:
An explanation and definition of similes and metaphors and the differences between them.
Why they are used.
Examples of similes and metaphors from poetry and literature - I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (William Wordsworth), The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), The Highwayman (Alfred Noyes), My Luv is Like a Red, Red Rose ( Robert Burns) and the Bible
Opportunities for students to identify similes and meatphors
Images to stimulate students to compose their own similes and metaphors.
Opportunities to identify, and distinguish between, similes and metaphors.
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This resource contains two worksheets on wholes and halves for year 2 pupils.
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Year 2 - Fractions - Spring Term - Set of 24 Worksheets
This resource contains 24 differentiated worksheets / workbook (with answers and progress check) of mastery maths resources to support the delivery of the Year 2 Fractions - Block 4 - Spring Term White Rose (WRM) ‘small steps’ programme. These resources are for Week 8.
The worksheets contain tasks (concrete, pictorial and abstract) linked to the White Rose small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme and include reasoning and problem-solving tasks.
The resources focus on the following objectives and small steps:
Year 2 Maths National Curriculum Objectives
Recognise, find, name and write fractions of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
White Rose Small Steps
Make equal parts
Recognise a half
Find a half
Recognise a quarter
Find a quarter
Year 2 Fractions - Halves and Quarters PowerPoint Lesson
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Two differentiated word searches on 'y' at the end of a word with the sound of a long 'i'.
PowerPoint Lesson and Set of 11 Worksheets - 'y' at the end of word with long 'i' sound
A complete teaching and learning resource focusing on the /aɪ/ sound spelt –y at the end of words. (English programmes of study: Key Stage 2 National curriculum)
This resource includes:
- a fully editable, highly visual and interactive 31 slide PowerPoint lesson
- 11 accompanying differentiated worksheets on words ending in 'y' at the end of a word with a long 'i' sound. For example - dry, cry, fry, why, sly July,
Activities include finding the missing words, constructing sentences, word searches and differentiating between 'y' sound with long 'i' and 'y' at the end of a word with long 'e' or 'ee' sound. There are also worksheets to stretch and challenge more able pupils eg find the meaning of words like clarify, rectify, pacify, deny, defy...
All tasks and worksheets are to encourage the identification and correct spelling of these words. Worksheets contain sections for what went well, next targets, level of support and pupil evaluation.
Also appropriate for older SEN pupils who have yet to master the basics in phonics.
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This is a worksheet on number bonds to 10 (number pairs).
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Number Bonds to 10 - Set of 11 Worksheets
Tasks include:
addition and subtraction number bonds to 10
finding missing numbers
simple word problems - addition and subtraction to 10
Number Bonds to 10 PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a highly visual, 90-slide PowerPoint lesson that clearly demonstrates addition (adding up) and subtraction (taking away) focusing on number bonds to 10. It features fish swimming from one bowl to another to visually demonstrate what adding up and taking away mean.
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This resource contains two differentiated worksheets on the soft ‘g’ sound (Year 2 National Curriculum) the /j/ sound spelt g before e, i and y).
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Soft ‘g’ Words -14 Page Workbook
Soft ‘g’ Words - 35-Slide PowerPoint lesson
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This resource contains two worksheets on time for Entry Level 2 students. One worksheet involves reading the time on a 12 hour digital clock and drawing the hands on an analogue clock to represent these times. The second worksheet involves working out the length of TV programmes and completing analogue clocks to show these times.
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Time: Entry Level 2 Workbook
This resource has been designed for students working towards the AQA Entry Level Certificate in Maths who are working at Entry Level 2. It contains an age-appropriate, 32 page workbook (22 worksheets) with progress check, study notes and certificate of achievement on time: Component 5.
Tasks and activities have been designed to help students achieve the following learning outcomes:
2.1 Know the seasons and months and their order
2.2 Know that 1 week = 7 days; 1 day = 24 hours; 1 hour = 60 minutes; 1 minute = 60 seconds
2.3 Read the time displayed on an analogue or 12 hour digital clock in hours, half hours and quarter hours and draw the hands on a clock or the digital display to represent these times
2.4 Read the time to the nearest five minutes on an analogue clock, draw the hands on a clock to show the time, and read any time on a digital clock
2.5 Find the difference between two times given in hours, half hours and quarter hours.
Time Entry Level 1 Maths Workbook
Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Know the days of the week and their order
1.2 Read the time to the hour or half hour on an analogue clock and draw the hands on a clock to show these times
1.3 Order familiar events
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Christmas Snap! This is a bright and colourful resource that can be laminated and used for educational and fun activities. There are 48 Christmas themed cards.
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Christmas-Themed Happy Families
Happy Families involves collecting all 4 members of the family. There are 56 cards ( 14 families) printed with Christmas themed pictures. The resource also includes the rules of the game.
All of these resources can help to develop communication and language skills, social interaction skills, turn taking and following rules.
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This resource contains two worksheets on completing forms for students working towards Entry Level 2 Functional Skills English certification.
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Form Filling - 28 Page Workbook
This is an age-appropriate, 28-page workbook on the Entry Level 2 writing composition component - complete a form asking for personal information (e.g. first name, surname, address, postcode, age, date of birth).
The workbook contains 5 information/explanation pages, 16 application forms/worksheets and a progress check on filling forms with personal details. Tasks include:
writing date of birth in different formats used on forms
understanding the terminology used on forms - title, surname, forename, christian name, family name, date of birth, address, postcode
reading instructions - eg please circle, please tick
completing a variety of forms
Plurals - 80 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This 80-slide PowerPoint lesson clearly explains the rules for forming plurals and includes:
regular nouns - adding ‘s’
nouns ending in ‘ch’ , ‘sh’, ‘x’, ‘ss’ and ‘s’
nouns ending in ‘o’
nouns ending in ‘z’
Opportunities are provided within the PowerPoint for pupils to form plurals and there is a timed plural challenge activity. The PowerPoint also contains two links to short videos on making plurals by adding ‘s’ and ‘es’.
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This resource contains a worksheet and a revision guide on parenthesis and parentheses - the punctuation devices used to mark parenthesis (brackets, commas and dashes).
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Parenthesis - 12 Page Workbook
This resource contains a 12-page workbook that includes three revision sheets and five worksheets about parenthesis and parentheses - the punctuation devices used to mark parenthesis.
The workbook clearly explains what parenthesis is and the different forms of punctuation - brackets, commas and dashes - used to mark it. The worksheets contain tasks for pupils to:
identify parenthesis in sentences
punctuate sentences containing parenthesis
compose sentences containing parenthesis
Parenthesis - 55 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a 55-slide PowerPoint lesson on parenthesis and parentheses.
The PowerPoint clearly and visually explains what parenthesis is, why it is used and the different forms of punctuation used to mark it. Many opportunities are provided within the PowerPoint for pupils to identify parenthesis and to extend sentences to make then more interesting by adding parenthesis - brackets, commas and dashes. The PowerPoint also contains a link to a short video on parenthesis.
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This is a worksheet on adding money taken from a Year 2 Maths Workbook on money.
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These two workbooks (with answers and progress check) contain tasks to support the delivery of the Year 2 Money Block 3 - Autumn Term White Rose (WRM) ‘small steps’ programme. These resources are for Weeks 10 -11.
The workbooks contain tasks (concrete, pictorial and abstract) linked to the White Rose small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme and includes reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The worksheets are available in both PDF and word format to enable editing.
The resources focus on the following objectives and small steps:
Year 2 Maths National Curriculum Objectives
Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence §
Combine amounts to make a particular value
Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money.
Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change.
White Rose Small Steps
Compare money
Find the total
Find the difference
Find change
Two-step problems
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Year 2 Money Workbooks Autumn - Block 3 - Week 10 - 11
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This is a short PowerPoint presentation on the Mexican Festival Day of the Dead.
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Day of the Dead - 67 Slide PowerPoint Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 67 slide Powerpoint presentation on the Mexican Festival / Holiday of Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) which is celebrated on 1st and 2nd November. Day of the Dead is a time when Mexicans remember and honour their departed family members and friends. The PowerPoint makes reference to:
The Aztec origins of the Day of the Dead festival
The Mexican belief that life on earth is a preparation for the next world
The rituals and traditions of Day of the Dead
Building shrines and altars
Cleaning and decorating cemeteries and graves
The symbolism of marigolds, skulls, Katrina figures
Burning copal incense
Food and drink - Pan de muertos bread, tamale, pib, atole, pulque
Sugar skulls
Papel picado
The PowerPoint contains several hyperlinks to explanations of the Day of the Dead festival and the parade in Mexico City.
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This resource contains two worksheets on relative clauses. Tasks include identifying relative clauses in sentences, correctly punctuating sentences containing relative clauses and composing sentences containing relative clauses.
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This resource contains an editable, 80-slide PowerPoint lesson on relative causes. It explains what relative clauses are, the difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses and how relative clauses for objects can have the pronoun omitted .
Opportunities are provided for pupils to identify both defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Relative Clauses - Set of 11 Worksheets/ Workbook
This resource contains an 11-page workbook and 6 revision/explanation sheets on relative pronouns. Tasks include:
Identifying relative clauses
Distinguishing between defining and non-defining relative clauses
Choosing the correct pronoun for a relative clause
Expanding a noun phrase with a relative pronoun
Punctuating non-defining relative clauses
Identifying relative clauses that do not need a relative pronoun or adverb
Combining sentences with a relative pronoun to make a relative clause
Deciding whether the relative pronoun can be omitted in a sentence
Writing using relative clauses
Relative Clauses - Revision/Memo Mat
This is a succinct and handy memo/revision mat on relative clauses. Understanding relative clauses can be a bit tricky.
This mat includes:
a definition of relative clauses
the difference between defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses
how to punctuate relative clauses
how to determine when a relative pronoun can be omitted from a relative clause
The mat contains clear examples. It is available in five different fonts.
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This resource contains two worksheets on the apostrophe for contraction/omission.
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Apostrophe for Contraction 18 Page Workbook
This resource contains a 18 page workbook (18 worksheets) on the apostrophe for contraction / omission. It also includes an information sheet explaining when and how to use the apostrophe for omission / contraction. The worksheets contain a variety of tasks and will help students to master using apostrophes appropriately in their written work and to improve their punctuation skills. Answers are included.
Apostrophe for Contraction 50 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains an editable, 50 slide PowerPoint lesson on the apostrophe for contraction / omission. It explains how to use the apostrophe in contracted words. This resource will help students to use apostrophes appropriately in their written work and to improve their punctuation skills. The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to a short video explaining how to use the apostrophe for contraction.
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This resource contains a short presentation on using the comma in lists in sentences.
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Commas in Lists in Sentences - 35 Slide PowerPoint Lesson
This resource contains a 20-page workbook (18 worksheets and 2 information sheets) with answers on using commas to demarcate items / phrases within sentences and to separate adjectives when there are two or more describing a noun. It is an ideal independent learning pack for home learning, distance learning and remote learning.
Tasks include:
inserting commas in the correct places in sentences
rewriting incorrectly punctuated sentences
composing own sentences containing a list of items
composing own sentences using two or more adjectives
punctuating The Twelve Days of Christmas with commas
composing own lyrics for the Twelve Days of Christmas and punctuating with commas
Commas in Lists in Sentences - PowerPoint Lesson
This is a fully editable, 35-slide PowerPoint lesson on using the punctuation device, the comma, in lists in sentences. The PowerPoint explains how to use the comma in lists in sentences and to separate adjectives when there are two or more describing a noun. There are opportunities for pupils to insert the comma in the correct place and to identify where the comma has been misplaced in sentences.
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This resource contains worksheets on plurals for words ending in -y.
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Plurals PowerPoint Lesson
This resource is a fully editable, 100+ slide PowerPoint lesson on making plurals for nouns. It is appropriate for primary aged pupils and older SEN students due to the highly visual nature of the resource.
The PowerPoint explains the rules for making plurals for:
regular nouns - adding ‘s’
nouns ending in ‘ch’ , ‘sh’, ‘x’, ‘ss’ , ‘x’ , ‘z’ and ‘s’
nouns ending in ‘o’
nouns ending in ‘f’, ‘ff’ and ‘fe’
nouns ending in ‘y’ preceded by a consonant
nouns ending in ‘y’ preceded by a vowel
irregular plurals
exceptions to the rules
Opportunities are provided within the PowerPoint for pupils to form plurals and there is a timed plural challenge activity.
Plurals - Set of 26 Worksheets
This resource contains a set of 26 differentiated worksheets on plurals.
Plurals Revision Memo Mat
This is a succinct revision mat containing the rules and exceptions for forming plurals.
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This resource contains a short presentation on the UK Parliament and Government.
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The UK Parliament and Government - 80 Slide PowerPoint Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The Three Parts of Parliament
The House of Commons
The House of Lords
The Monarch
The Role of Parliament
The Government
Law Making
The end of the PowerPoint contains question slides to check pupils’ understanding. The PowerPoint also contains links to five short videos on elections, parliament, the House of Commons, the House of Lords and law making.
Mock Election Pack
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UK Politics Quiz
Brexit – The Triggering of Article 50
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This resource contains a worksheet on rounding to the nearest 10. It has been designed for students working towards the AQA Entry Level Certificate in Maths who are working at Entry Level 2.
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Rounding to Ten - Functional Skills Maths - Entry Level 2 - 17 Page Workbook
This resource has been designed for students working towards Functional Skills Maths qualifications at Entry Level 2. It contains an age-appropriate, 17-page workbook on rounding to 10 (Outcome 9: Approximate by rounding to the nearest 10, and use this rounded answer to check results).
The 17-page workbook contains 5 information/explanation pages, 12 worksheets, a progress check, a certificate of achievement and answers. Tasks and activities have been designed to help pupils to achieve the following outcomes:
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10
Rounding numbers to get an estimate
Rounding numbers to check calculations
The resource is available in both a PDF and an editable version to enable teachers to personalise the resource if desired.
Numbers to 100 - AQA Entry Level 2 Maths
This resource contains an age-appropriate, 36-page workbook (36 worksheets) with progress check, certificate of achievement and answers for: Component 1: Properties of Number.
Tasks and activities have been designed to help students achieve these learning outcomes:
2.1 Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 100
2.2 Recognise place value in two digit numbers
2.3 Count from 0 in steps of two, three and five
2.4 Round numbers less than 100 to the nearest 10
2.5 Understand and identify odd and even numbers
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This is a short quiz on the FIFA 2022 Football World Cup tournament.
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Football World Cup 2022 -100 Question Quiz
This is a 100-question PowerPoint quiz on the FIFA 2022 Football World Cup tournament. Each question has three possible answers. The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the ball image on gthe bottom right-hand corner of each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to allow individuals/teams to record their answers. The quiz is divided into 6 categories
Past World Cups
World Cup Records
Miscellaneous
Picture Round
World Cup 2018
World Cup 2022
The quiz also contains links to Pele’s 5 top World Cup goals, news report on the stolen world cup in 1966 and Pickles the dog, the World Cup Willie song , the highlights of the 1966 World Cup final, Maradona’s controversial ‘hand of God’ goal against England and the 2022 World Cup mascot - La’eeb.
Football World Cup 2022 -100+ Slide Presentation
This resource contains an informative, fully editable 100+ slide PowerPoint presentation on the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup tournament taking place in Qatar November and December 2022.
The PowerPoint is divided into the following sections:
The history of the World Cup
The structure of the tournament
World Cup Awards
World Cup facts and records
England at the World Cup
2022 World Cup
The presentation contains links to Maradona’s two famous goals, England’s goals in 1966, Englands best football World Cup moments in history, Pele’s goals, the World Cup Willie song, and an interview with the owner of Pickles, the dog, who found the World Cup when it went missing, Roger Milla’s goal - the oldest goal scorer in the World Cup, England’s pethe World Cup 2022 mascot, the World Cup Official Match Ball, and a sneak preview of what to expect at Qatar.
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This is a worksheet on calculating change from £5.
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Year 3 Money Set of 30 Worksheets
These worksheets are designed to support the delivery of the White Rose Maths (WRM) small steps scheme of work for Year 3 Money - Spring Term - Week 4. They cover
Pounds and pence
Converting pounds and pence
Adding money
Subtracting money
Calculating change
Year 3 Tenths PowerPoint Lesson
Year 3 Tenths Set of 26 Worksheets
Year 3 Tenths PowerPoint Lesson and Set of 26 Worksheets
Year 3 White Rose Consolidation Pack – Spring Term
This resource has been designed to consolidate the work undertaken in the White Rose Maths Scheme small steps Year 3 programme delivered in the Spring Term Weeks 1-11. It contains resources for the following blocks of work:-
Money
Length and Perimeter
Multiplication and Division
Statistics
Fractions
This resource contains a short presentation on Sir David Attenborough.
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David Attenborough 85 Slide Presentation
This is a fully editable and informative 90-slide PowerPoint presentation on Sir David Attenboroughs life and achievements. The PowerPoint focuses on:
• His birthdate, birthplace and parentage
• His family – siblings and children
• His education
• His interests
• His position in the BBC as BBC 2 Controller and Director of Programmes
• His wildlife and natural science programmes
• His favourite and most memorable moments in filming and producing programmes
• Plants and animals named after David
• Some interesting facts about him
• His major achievements
• His patronage of Charities and organisations
• His commentary on Adele – the singer
There are several hyperlinks in the PowerPoint to short clips of his documentaries including Zoo Quest, the lyrebird, the bird of paradise, the penguins, the whale, the lost tribe, the lyre bird, the gorillas of Rwanda and his commentary on Adele.
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