Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Ideal for use in lower KS2 or in later years for consolidation, to help children understand how pronouns can be used to avoid repetition or to aid cohesion.
‘Prepositions to avoid Repetition’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, including different activities to help children identify the purpose of pronouns and where to use them to avoid repetition.
‘Prepositions to avoid Repetition’ story, a short story that children need to improve by identifying the nouns and choosing which to change to pronouns.
National Curriculum Links
Statutory content to be introduced in Year 4: Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to
aid cohesion and avoid repetition.
Year 3 and 4 statutory requirements: pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts by choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
Differentiation
Third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns.
First and third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns
First, second and third person pronouns, including possessive pronouns. Used in a range of multi-clause sentences.
A fifteen lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own newspaper article based on a fictional event: people have lost their shadows
This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on light and shadows, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge.
The lessons beginning with exploring the text type, followed by sentence level work and ending with writing their newspaper report. The unit uses differentiated example text types throughout to support students understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students needs.
Lesson order:
Hook lesson: introducing the newspaper story, people have lost their shadows. Students take part in a fun treasure hunt activity to piece together the story.
Identifying and sorting features of a newspaper report, using differentiated example texts.
Sorting facts and opinions, understanding their use in a newspaper report.
Writing headlines.
Writing captions, including using prepositions.
Generating appropriate vocabulary for our newspaper report.
Generating fronted adverbials to be used in our newspaper report.
Understanding and using conjunctions, this fun activity involves students rolling a dice to see which conjunction makes sense in a sentence and which fits best.
Writing in the past tense.
Writing quotes, punctuating direct speech for quotes in a newspaper report. This lesson also includes a hot seating activity for the whole class to engage in.
Writing the report: writing the introduction.
Writing the report: writing the main body.
Writing the report: writing the conclusion.
Writing the report: editing.
Writing the report: publishing.
A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 5 and 6 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes:
Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 5 and 6 common exception words.
Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes and clauses.
Four operations colouring picture.
6, 7, 8 and 9 x tables race game.
Drawing challenge.
End of year reflection.
Answers.
A bundle of resources to teach commas for clarity in Years 5 and 6.
‘Commas for clarity’ activity sheets. A set of sheets with three levels of differentiation, including activities to allow children to identify correct and incorrect use of commas, where to add commas and how commas affect the meaning of sentences. Answers included.
‘Commas for clarity’ cards. A set of cards with pictures of signs using commas incorrectly, perfect to use in pairs or groups to encourage discussion around how commas can cause ambiguity.
National Curriculum Links
Year 5 statutory content to be introduced – use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing.
Differentiation
Commas used to separate items in a list.
Commas used to separate items in a list and to clarify the meaning within a sentence.
Commas used to separate items in a list, to clarify the meaning within a sentence and clauses within multi-clause sentences.
Ideal for in Year 4 when teaching how to punctuate direct speech.
‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ activity sheet with three levels of differentiation and a range of activities to allow children to punctuate direct speech correctly, write direct speech with correct punctuation and mark the punctuation sentences. Answers included.
‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ passage, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to spot the mistakes and punctuate sentences correctly. Ideal as a short activity or in a grammar session. Answers included.
‘Punctuating Direct Speech’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with the correct punctuation. Two versions available – comic strip with completed speech bubbles and blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version.
National Curriculum Links
Year 4 statutory content to be introduced – Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.
Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech.
Differentiation
Capital letters and inverted commas in direct speech.
Above plus commas before and at the end of direct speech.
Above plus ? ! . at the end of direct speech.
A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own explanation text based on a fictional product: a watering robot!
Students spend time at the start of the unit designing their own plant watering robot/machine (there is also an option to write about the ladybird robot in the example texts provided). This allows them to focus on how to write an explanation text, without becoming bogged down in exactly how a specific product works, they can tell us!
This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on plants or living things and their habitats, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge.
This unit begins with ten lessons exploring the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow them to write their explanation text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about a ladybird-shaped plant watering robot to supports students’ understanding.
Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs.
Lesson order:
• Hook lesson: introducing the ladybird robot and its purpose. Students design their own watering robot/machine.
• Questions, students answer questions in more detail about their watering robot/machine to have enough detail for their explanation text.
• Creating diagrams with technical language, students draw and label diagrams of their robots/machines using technical language.
• Identify features of explanation texts, students explore the key features of explanation texts and find examples in the texts provided.
• Writing appropriate noun phrases, students will explore appropriate description for an explanation text and practise writing descriptions of their robot/machine.
• Using prepositions to clearly describe different parts of the robot.
• Writing with fronted adverbials, focussing on fronted adverbials to express time and cause.
• Writing with conjunctions, students will use a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions to add information or to explain.
• Understand and using bullet points, students will explore how they are used and practise writing a list or adding extra information with bullet points.
• Introducing headings and sub-headings, students will use these to plan their explanation texts in preparation for writing.
• Writing the introduction and second paragraph (explaining what the machine does in more detail), looking at examples and creating a shared write as a class.
• Writing the third paragraph (explaining how the machine works).
• Writing the conclusion.
• Students can practise editing using our ‘explanation text to edit’ before editing their own work.
• Publishing texts, including adding detailed diagrams.
Printable bundle, ideal in Year 2 to teach the coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or.
-Coordinating conjunction activity sheets, children can practise joining words and phrases together using coordinating conjunctions and identifying the correct conjunction for the sentence.
-Coordinating conjunction display cards.
Differentiation
Using and to join two words and create a phrase.
Using and, but to join two phrases together.
Using and, but, or to join two phrases together.
National Curriculum Links#
Pupils should be taught to learn how to use co-ordination (using or, and, but)
Ideal for use in Key Stage Two, whether this is introducing the concept of subordinate clauses in Year 3 or consolidating in later years.
Subordinate clause activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and complete subordinate clauses. Answers included.
Subordinate clause passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the subordinate clauses in the sentence. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session to discuss the purpose of subordinate clauses. Answers included.
National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4
Terminology to be introduced in Year Three: subordinate clause.
Pupils should be taught to extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.
Differentiation
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although.
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though.
Subordinating clauses beginning with conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though, since, provided that, unless. Identifying subordinate clauses at the start and end of sentences.
A spelling and grammar themed escape room aimed at Years 5 and 6. Perfect as a fun grammar activity or for SATs revision.
Printable escape room where students try to find clues linked to Years 5 and 6 spelling words.
Printable grammar clue cards - the spelling words hidden in the escape room lead students to grammar questions for them to solve in their pairs/groups. Each solved grammar clue leads to a number, part of the code for the safe in the escape room.
PPT introducing the escape room and clues.
Teacher’s instructions and answers.
A perfect resource to support your teaching of the subjunctive form in Year 6.
Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, allowing children to identify and write sentences in the subjunctive form.
National Curriculum
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing for example the use of subjunctive forms such as If ‘I were’ or ‘were they to come’ in some very formal writing and speech.
A range of activities to teach parenthesis in Upper Key Stage Two.
Parenthesis activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify and use parenthesis within different sentences, as well as the punctuation used.
Parenthesis passages. Short paragraphs about The Titanic with three levels of differentiation for children to underline the parenthesis within.
Parenthesis display cards.
National Curriculum Links
Year 5 statutory content to be introduced – Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 b yusing brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.
Differentiation
Parenthesis using ( ) , and – at the end of sentences.
Parenthesis using ( ) , and – in the middle and at the end of sentences in a range of single and multi-clause sentences.
Parenthesis using ( ) , and – in the middle and at the end of sentences in a range of multi-clause sentences.
A bundle of 10 fun Chirstmas activities suitable across Key Stage Two. Select individual activities or create your own Christmas activity booklet.
Plan a Christmas party with a budget.
Mindfulness colouring.
Christmas elf and bauble colouring and craft.
Spell check a Christmas letter (activities for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6).
Addition and subtraction Christmas trees.
Christmas story writing.
Snowflake symmetry.
Sorting the 12 days of Christmas.
Rearranging instructions for a Christmas recipe.
Sort and identify Merry Christmas in different languages on map of the world.
These activities are also available as part of our Advent Calendar, along with many more Christmas themed activities.
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create nouns and understand their meanings. Prefixes: auto, anti, super, fore, mid, sub, tele, mini, micro, multi, semi. Includes definitions of each word for further support or teacher reference.
Matching cards for children to match a prefix to a word and create a new noun, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
National Curriculum Links
Year 3 – formation of nouns using a range of prefixes.
Lower KS2 – use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them.
– apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
A bundle of activities perfect for teaching passive voice in Year 6.
‘Passive voice’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation. Including a range of activities allowing children to identify active and passive voiced sentences, re-writing sentences in the passive voice and understanding what makes a sentence passive.
‘Passive voice’ cards. Subject, verb and object cards which can be used in small group or paired work to create sentences in the active or passive voice and encourage discussion.
‘Impersonal passive’ word mat. Impersonal passive is a great way to get passive voice into formal writing, this word mat is perfect to support children using this.
National Curriculum Links
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence.
Differentiation
Identifying passive and active voice sentences, re-writing the verbs in a sentence to make it passive.
Identifying passive and active voice sentences and re-writing sentences in the passive voice in single and multi-clause sentences.
Identifying passive and active voice sentences and re-writing sentences in the passive and active voice in single and multi- clause sentences. Writing their own sentences.
Perfect when children are learning how to create verbs by adding suffixes in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6.
Matching cards for children to match nouns and adjectives to a range of suffixes. Ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
‘Ise’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘Ate’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘Ify’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
‘En’ activity sheet allowing children to add suffixes using the correct spelling rule and using them in sentences.
National Curriculum
Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced – Converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using suffixes [for example, –ate; –ise; –ify]
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.
Differentiation
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word or when ‘e’ needs to be removed.
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word, when ‘e’ needs to be removed and removing ‘y’ when adding ‘ify’.
Adding suffixes when no changes need to be made to the root word, when ‘e’ needsto be removed, removing ‘y’, ‘ation’, ‘able’ to add the suffix and exceptions to the rule.
Semi-colon activity sheets with three levels of differentiation that have a range of activities allowing children to use semi-colons correctly, inset them in the correct place and mark sentences that have tried to use them. Answers included.
Semi-colon talk cards, a range of questions including questions about how semi-colons can be used and identifying where they can be used in a sentence. Perfect for use in pairs or small groups to consolidate what children know about using semi-colons.
Semi-colon passages. Short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify where the semi-colons need to go. Ideal as a short activity or as part of a grammar session. Answers included.
National Curriculum
Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – Use of the semi-colon, colon and dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses [for example, It’s raining; I’m fed up].
Use of the colon to introduce a list and use of semi-colons within lists.
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
Differentiation
Separating detailed items in a list and using semi-colons to replace conjunctions.
Separating detailed items in a list, using semi-colons to replace conjunctions and to separate related clauses.
Separating detailed items in a list, using semi-colons to replace conjunctions and to separate related clauses in multi-clause sentences.
Four activities, perfect for morning activities, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it.
These activities are prepared for the first week of Year 3 but can be used whenever. Purchase the whole Autumn term here and keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year.
PPT and worksheets. Answers/examples provided where appropriate.
Spelling activity cards with 30 different challenges for children, perfect for practising spellings in fun and creative ways. Activities range from written activities, challenges that can be done alone, games for pairs or teams to outdoor tasks. These activities can be used or adapted for all ages.
Four activities, perfect for morning activities, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there is a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it.
These activities are prepared for the first week of Year 4 but can be used whenever. Purchase the whole Autumn term here and keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year.
This first week of morning activities starts with a look at emotions and gives students a chance to share how they’re feeling at the start of the school year. The rest of the week includes **using adjectives to describe, writing numbers in words and digits and a fun ‘create as many words as you can’ activity **.
PPT and worksheets. Answers/examples provided where appropriate.