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.

16 photo cards with a variety of play dough shapes and patterns for children to recreate. These cards provided a fantastic opportunity to develop children’s fine motor skills by creating a range of shapes with play dough, as well as encouraging their creativity to create new shapes or patterns. Ideal for early EYFS, as part of an independent play dough station, or for encouraging development of fine motor skills for children with SEN.

Three interactive and printable spinner activities, perfect to explore how different conjunctions can be used. Each spinner activity is available as an interactive version on a PPT perfect for whole class teaching or quick burst grammar sessions. The printable versions are ideal for small group work and encouraging talk between students. Conjunctions for cause and effect – 6 different conjunctions including because, since and so. Conjunctions for cause and effect – 12 different conjunctions including in order, seeing that, due to. Conjunctions for contrast – 12 different conjunctions including unlike, rather than, however.

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.

Advent calendar with different, fun Christmas activities for each day of advent. These activities are perfect for morning starters or activities during the Christmas build up and can even be extended into full lessons. Christmas themed activities including: Christmas Maths code crackers, addition and subtraction problems and times tables and related division facts. Christmas themed anagrams. Snowflake symmetry. Decoration making. Mindfulness colouring. Christmas around the world facts. Planning and budgeting a Christmas party. Letter to Santa spelling activity (differentiated to lower and upper KS2) Christmas recipe jumble and much more! Days that fall on a weekend have a fun true or false fact for students to discuss and the advent calendar ends with a quiz. Answers included. All questions and activities are displayed on the PPT with activity sheets provided for those activities that need them.

A PPT with top tips for learning and recalling times tables, as well as a times tables wheel for students use or display. The PPT covers: Times tables wheel, this shows the essential tables that a student needs to learn as times tables questions are commutative. If I know 2 x 3, I also know 3 x 2! Silly rhymes for remembering times tables facts. Pattern spotting in the 2, 6, 8 and 10 x tables. Using your hands to work out the 9 x tables.

Worksheets, comic strips and short passages. Perfect for introducing inverted commas in Y3. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ activity sheet with a range of activities to allow children to add inverted commas, write direct speech with inverted commas and mark sentences. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ passage, a short paragraph with direct speech for children to add inverted commas. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. ‘Using Inverted Commas’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with inverted commas. Two versions available – comic strip with complete speech bubbles, blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version. National Curriculum Links Year 3 statutory content to be introduced – Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech

Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems, a range of questions with and without exchanging and carrying. PPT to introduce activity and allow students to practise. Activity sheets with 3 levels of differentiation, answers provided. Addition and subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers.

Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems involving exchanging and carrying. PPT to introduce activity and allow students to practise. Activity sheets with 3 levels of differentiation, answers provided. Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers. Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.

Ideal to teach modal verbs Upper KS2 when this objective is first introduced. ‘Modal verbs’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify how modal verbs are used within sentences. ‘Modal verbs’ passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation children to identify the modal verbs used within sentences. ‘Modal verbs’ display cards for your class display. National Curriculum Links Statutory content to be introduced in Year 5 – Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must] Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility. Differentiation Modal verbs: should, would, will, may, can, could, might, must and shall. Modal verbs: includes the above and wouldn’t, shouldn’t, won’t, can’t and mustn’t, in single and some multi-clause sentences. Modal verbs: includes the above and ought to, in multi-clause sentences. Classifying the modal verbs into positive and negative as well as by certainty and possibility.

Ideal when teaching how to add prefixes to verbs in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6. Matching cards for children to match prefixes to verbs, ideal for use in small groups or pairs. Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create new verbs and understand their meanings. Prefixes: de, mis, dis, over and re. National Curriculum Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced: verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–]. Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.

Ideal for introducing prepositions in Year 3 or consolidation in Year 4. Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children identify prepositions that show the position of a noun in a sentence. Answers included. Preposition passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the prepositions used to show the position of nouns. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included. Preposition matching cards – match the picture to the preposition. Ideal for small group or paired work. Preposition display cards. National Curriculum Links -Statutory content to be introduced in Year 3: -Expressing place using prepositions. Differentiation Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside. Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below. Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below, by, between, near, among, around.

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 bundle of 34 resources aimed at Year 3 or suitable in Y4 for consolidation. 34 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included Resources for: Punctuation Inverted commas Possessive apostrophes Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions Subordinate clauses Verbs, nouns and adjectives Statements, questions or commands. Activities include identifying grammar within sentences/paragraphs, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences/paragraphs and improving sentences/paragraphs.

Initial sounds activity, children can sound out the initial sounds from the pictures and match them to the correct letter. Use the printable letters included or any wooden or magnetic letters you may have in your classroom. This activity is perfect when teaching Phase 2 phonics and introducing the following letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.

A fun road map activity allowing children to practise counting from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 through play. Using the printed out road map, encourage children to follow the correct path with a toy car counting from 1-10 and 1-20. Once children have mastered this, they can cut out the numbers from 1 - 20 and place them on the blank road map, creating different pathways for themselves or their peers.

Four sheets of cutting practise, perfect for developing scissor skills.

Writing Bites! Ten writing prompt sheets, perfect for: morning tasks, English lesson starters or even as a stimulus for a piece of writing. Each sheet has a different image and eight prompts for writing including: vocabulary, writing an alliterative sentence, generating questions and more. PDF document of ten ‘writing bites’ and a PPT with writing bites explained, as well as an example writing bite.

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.