Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
This Greek myth retells the tale of how Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to man. It can be used to test comprehension skills, including inference, and as a model text for story planning and 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, including Tier 2 words.
A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Greek myth.
In Year 1, pupils need to learn about exclamation marks. Teach how they are used in sentences with this brightly coloured poster, then allow children to apply their skills with the card sort activity and worksheets.
In year 1, pupils need to be able to recognise capital letters and form these correctly. Children can use the alphabet cards to match capital and lowercase letters and then apply their knowledge using the worksheet in the pack.
Use these KS2 comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the activist and campaigner Mahatma Gandhi. The fact sheet has information about Gandhi’s childhood, the time he spend in South Africa and his peaceful campaign for Indian independence.
The resource can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework and includes comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
This pack is also a great prompt for PSHE lessons where children can discuss issues of equality, fairness and how to make a change.
A KS2 non-fiction text on Laika – the first living creature to be sent into space.
This can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework. Also included are 12 comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of data retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
These reading challenge mats provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text.
Each mat contains a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language.
The stories included are:
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Time Machine by HG Wells
A fun and exciting way to teach writing for a purpose in KS2 English lessons – asking pupils to convince a school member to eat insects!
The resources in this pack provide an engaging way to gather writing evidence.
Included in this pack are:
5 lesson plans on persuasive writing.
PowerPoint – an introduction to entomophagy (the eating of insects) including a quiz.
6 question cards to prompt discussion about entomophagy.
6 question prompt cards with answers.
1 research prompt card to support children in researching the eating of insects.
1 research card with answers.
Entomophagy vocabulary – 11 technical words and their definitions for children to use in their writing.
Edible insects fact sheet.
Persuasive writing planning worksheet.
Persuasive writing editing cards.
The Winning Goal.
This KS2 grammar teaching sequence for formal and informal language has been designed to help children revisit and remember a key grammatical concept from the National Curriculum programme of study.
The session provides a motivating and memorable image to stimulate discussion, before introducing the grammar element. Children have time to practise using this feature, before undertaking a short writing task to apply what they have learnt in the context of creative writing.
The resource includes teacher notes and a pupil worksheet.
A New Pet.
This KS2 grammar teaching sequence for ellipsis has been designed to help children revisit and remember a key grammatical concept from the National Curriculum programme of study.
The session provides a motivating and memorable image to stimulate discussion, before introducing the grammar element. Children have time to practise using this feature, before undertaking a short writing task to apply what they have learnt in the context of creative writing.
The resource includes teacher notes and a pupil worksheet.
This Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using the -er and -est suffixes in Year 2.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity for KS1 pupils, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. Children will need to define the -er and -est suffixes using their own words, and there are images and challenges to prompt creative responses.
This KS2 imaginary settings inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a fantasy theme.
In order for children to write stories set in a particular genre, they need to be able to know enough about the genre to include its key features and themes. The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way.
The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail.
The resources include:
A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text
Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories
Images to use as posters
Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on zoo animals. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals:
elephants
giraffes
lions
camels
rhinos
hippos
This pack contains 8 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:
‘ff’, ‘ll’, ‘ss’, ‘zz’ and ‘c’ words
-nk words
Syllables
-tch words
Words that end in the ‘v’ sound
Adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ to words
Adding -ed, -ing and -er
Adding -er and -est
These Y2 spelling review worksheets, covering the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Loch Ness Monster. The text covers Scottish folklore, sighting, photographs and modern day interest.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
These spelling review worksheets, covering the Year 2 suffixes -ed, -ing, -er and -est, are an excellent way to revise and practise these word endings.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This pack contains 14 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 ‘j’ sound spelt ‘ge’ and ‘dge’ at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as ‘g’ elsewhere in words before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘n’ sound spelt ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ at the beginning of words
*The ‘r’ sound spelt ‘wr’ at the beginning of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –le at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –el at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –al at the end of words
Words ending –il
The ‘ai’ sound spelt ‘y’ at the end of words
Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in ‘y’
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in ‘y’ with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 5 and 6 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words are covered across five challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.