A bundle of activities to help you teach how to use hyphens for clarity and to avoid ambiguity in Upper Key Stage Two. Hyphens activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify words that can be joined with hyphens, how they can be used and how they can change the meaning of a sentence. Hyphen matching cards. A range of words that can be linked together using hyphens, this is a fun matching game that can be used to help children make hyphenated words and go on to use them in sentences for clarity. National Curriculum Year 6 statutory content to be introduced – how hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using hyphens to avoid ambiguity. Differentiation Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how a hyphen makes the meaning of the sentence more clear. Using hyphens to link two words, explaining how hyphens can change the meaning of a sentence and adding hyphens in the correct place. Using hyphens to link three words e.g. mother-in-law and explaining the difference in meaning between words with and without hyphens e.g. re-cover and recover.

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.

A bundle of 35 resources aimed at Year 6 but suitable across Upper KS2. 35 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. This bundle is also ideal for SATs revision. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included Resources for: Correct and incorrect punctuation Semi-colons and colons Commas for clarity Word types including determiners, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, hyphens, punctuation for parenthesis, inverted commas, modal verbs Using a word as a noun and a verb Noun phrases Tense Prefixes and suffixes and word meanings Contractions. Activities include identifying grammar within sentences, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences, matching meanings and improving sentences.

A fifteen-lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own information text about two rainforest creatures. This unit of writing is ideal for students who have already studied the rainforest or to be taught alongside a rainforest topic (try ours here!). Students spend time at the start of the unit reading sample information texts to understand their purpose and structure. They then research two rainforest creatures to write their own texts about, they can use the rainforest fact files provided and we strongly advise also using textbooks or the internet to support their research. The first ten lessons explore the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow time to write the information text. The unit uses three differentiated example text types about giant anteaters and red-eyed tree frogs to support students’ understanding. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Answers (or example answers) are provided, where appropriate. Lesson order: • Hook lesson: read through the sample information texts with parts missing, students can try to work out what the texts are about and gain an understanding of the purpose of information texts. • Identify key features, students use the sample texts to understand and identify the key features in information texts. • Sorting information, students begin researching their rainforest creatures using the rainforest fact files provided and class books/the internet. Students complete a mind map to sort the information they find. • Answering questions in more detail, students use a chatterbox to answer questions about their creatures in more detail. • Using present tense, students will learn how information texts use present tense and practise writing in the present tense. • Using third person pronouns, students will learn how information texts use third person pronouns and practise using them to avoid repeating nouns. • Comparing and contrasting the two rainforest creatures using conjunctions and adverbials. • Writing a glossary for the information texts. • Exploring how rhetorical questions are used in information texts and practise writing them, • Introducing headings and sub-headings, students will use these to plan their information texts in preparation for writing. • Writing the introduction, looking at examples and creating a shared write as a class. • Writing the second and third paragraphs, more detail about the rainforest creatures. • Writing the conclusion. • Students can practise editing using our ‘information text to edit’ before editing their own work. • Publishing texts. Looking for more? Try our newspaper writing units, available for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6. Or our Year 3&4 explanation text.

A bundle of activities that are ideal in Upper Key Stage Two to help you teach pupils how to use colons. Colon activity sheets with three levels of differentiation that have a range of activities allowing children to use colons correctly and correct sentences that haven’t used colons correctly. Answers included. Colon talk cards, a range of questions including questions about how 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 how to use colons. Colon passages. Short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify where the 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. Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by using using a colon to introduce a list. Differentiation Using colons to introduce lists. Using colons to introduce lists and single words. Using colons to introduce lists, single words, speech and to separate independent clauses.

Ideal for use in Y4 when this objective is introduced, covering common verbs and verb forms that are used incorrectly. ‘Standard verb form’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children identify when a particular verb or verb form should be used in Standard English. ‘Standard verb form’ talk cards. A selection of questions cards for children to identify whether or not a sentence is written in Standard English or not. Ideal for use pairs or small groups National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4 Terminology to be introduced in Year 4 – Standard English forms for verb inflections instead of local spoken forms. Was/were and did/done Including the words above and was/were and did/done including for plural verbs. Brought/bought, didn’t/don’t, goes/go. Including the words above and borrowed/lent, have/of and learnt/taught.

Fourteen weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week. These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, 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. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day. These activities are prepared for the first term of Year 4 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year or buy our Autumn and Spring bundle here. Objectives cover: Times tables Writing numbers in words and digits Roman numerals Addition and subtraction Adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs Spelling Writing instructions, play scripts and cartoon strips Editing writing Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Try the first week’s morning activities for free.

Seven weeks of morning work tasks, four tasks per week. These activities are ideal for Year 5s in the Autumn term as it focusses on what is commonly taught in the first term of the year, they can also be used at any point of the year for recap and consolidation. Each week consists of two Maths based activities and two English based activities, covering the following: Addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division, including multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Times tables facts, including factors. Place value. Rounding. Roman numerals. Modal verbs. Relative clauses. Creative writing. Determiners. Understanding the meaning of words. Punctuation.

A detailed and engaging fifteen-lesson writing unit, guiding learners towards writing a persuasive letter, convincing their headteacher to change the school week to four days. Throughout the unit, students read and refer to differentiated example texts to support their learning and understanding of what a persuasive letter is. The first ten lessons explore the text type and sentence level work. The final five lessons allow time to write the persuasive letter, one step at a time. Where appropriate, each lesson is differentiated and carefully planned to suit different students’ needs. Answers (or example answers) are provided, where appropriate. Lesson order: • Hook lesson: students will be given the chance to practise persuading each other to do simple tasks to understand what persuasion is. They will then read the example text, ending the lesson by exploring pros and cons for the idea of a four-day school week. • Identifying the key features of a persuasive letter, sorting and highlighting the features. • Speaking and listening lesson on exaggerating, students will explore what it means to exaggerate, and the language features used. Then practise exaggerating different reasons for having a four-day school week in pairs or groups. • Power of three, students learn what the power of three is, how it is used in the example texts and practise using it. • Talking directly to the reader using first and second person pronouns, students learn what first and second person pronouns are using a snap game. The independent activities include finding pronouns in the example texts, creating a word mat and re-writing sentences using incorrect pronouns. • Writing opinions as facts. Students learn the effect of writing opinions as facts to be persuasive and have the chance to practise writing some. • Fact finding lesson to create simple statistics, students create questions and poll class/staff members to create their own simple statistics for their letters. • Conjunctions to extend ideas, students explore how different conjunctions are used before the main activity, a matching card game where students need to match two parts of a sentence with a conjunction. • Understanding what rhetorical questions are and how they are used in persuasive letters, students either fill in the blank on an example text with rhetorical questions or create a word mat for rhetorical questions. • Planning our persuasive letter. • Writing the introduction and first paragraph, looking at examples and exploring the language used. • Writing the third paragraph, shared write to support students writing. • Writing the conclusion. • Students can practise editing using our ‘persuasive letter to edit’ before editing their own work. • Publishing texts.

An engaging fifteen lesson writing unit, leading students towards writing their own newspaper article based on a fictional event: a school has lost its gravity! This would make a great unit to be taught alongside a Science unit on forces, or as a way to revisit Scientific knowledge. The first ten lessons explore text type, followed by sentence and word level work. The unit uses differentiated example text types throughout to support students understanding. Lesson Order Hook lesson: a school has lost its gravity! Analysing newspaper articles. Formal vocabulary used in newspapers. Relative clauses used in newspapers. Parenthesis used in newspapers. Rhetorical questions to start and link paragraphs. Technical language (explaining gravity). Appropriate descriptive language used in newspapers. Writing a conclusion, focussing on how the structure is different to other parts of the report. Writing the report: writing the introduction. Writing the report: writing paragraphs 2 and 3. Writing the report: writing paragraph 4 and conclusion. Writing the report: editing, with a report for students to practise editing. Writing the report: publishing.

A fun bundle of activities aimed at Years 3 and 4 to keep students busy and focussed. It includes: Spelling anagrams - rearranging Years 3 and 4 common exception words. Silly story writing - completing a story with different word classes. Four operations colouring picture. 6, 7 and 12 x tables race game (the full collection of 1 - 12 tables race games is available here). Drawing challenge - students must follow the instructions to see what they create. End of year reflection. Answers.

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Clear teaching PPT illustrating where on the map of the world the lines of tropics are, explaining the difference between tropical and temperature rainforests and what they mean. -Engaging main activity to find and mark tropical rainforests on the map of the world with three levels of differentiation, some will work towards finding both tropical and temperate rainforests and understanding that tropical rainforests lie within the lines of tropics. Continent maps with tropical and temperate rainforests marked on for students to use as reference points when plotting rainforests on their world map. Geography Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed PPT discussing the needs of different animals and why the different layers may suit them, using the living things fact files to support learning. Creative and fun main activity with 3 levels of differentiation, students will create their own rainforest animal or plant depending on the layer they live in, some will move on to work out the layer in which a brand new animal lives in, based on their features. Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files to support students independent learning. Whole unit planning. NC objective: Science Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Part of our amazing ten lesson Rainforest Topic, aimed at Lower KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons Detailed teaching PPT detailing the largest tribe in the Amazon, the Yanomami. Explore their way of life, focus on the food they eat and how they source it with the help of this resource. An engaging main activity with 2 levels of differentiation, students will identify the foods that tribal people eat and how they source them, some will compare it to food that we eat and how we source it. Whole unit planning. NC Objectives: Geography Describe and understand human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing Anglo-Saxon battles and modelling the main activity. Information text on key Anglo-Saxon battles. Main activity - students summarise the battles they have read about and create ‘battle cards’ which show the key information about these battles ie. who won, when it took place etc. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Part of our amazing enquiry based, ten lesson Anglo-Saxon Topic, aimed at Upper KS2. Available on TES as a bundle for £10 or for download as individual lessons. This lesson summarises our first enquiry Question: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?* Clear teaching PPT introducing a range of Anglo-Saxon past times with opportunity to solve some Anglo-Saxon riddles as a whole class. Carousel of activities: Beowulf storytelling activity, Tafl game and riddle solving. Whole unit planning. Pupils should be taught about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots Non-statutory: Anglo-Saxon invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life. Anglo-Saxon art and culture. Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

Four fun colouring sheets provide children with the opportunity to recognise numbers 1 - 20, supporting your teaching of Early Maths in the EYFS.

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.