A 53 slide interactive PowerPoint and quiz on figurative language that looks at similes, metaphors, personification, and alliteration. Perfect for a lesson introduction or recap. TOP TIP: Make the quiz interactive by getting the children to write their answers on whiteboards. Contents - Slides 1 - 4: Introduction - Slides 5 - 10: Similes - Slides 11 - 15: Metaphors - Slides 16 - 19: Alliteration - Slides 20 - 23: Personification - Slides 24 - 52: Quiz - Slide 53: Conclusion ------------------------ If you like this resources, please give us a good rating! Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This reading comprehension is the perfect addition to your sustainability topic. This is a basic text that goes through what wind turbines are, how they work, and why they are an important energy source. Once they’ve read the passage they will use the text to complete the comprehension questions. This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work. Included: Reading passage Differentiated Comprehension Questions Answer key This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning. Check out our ‘Renewable Energy Reading Comprehension’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Lionel Messi with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions. This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work. Included: 1 page reading passage 2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each) Answer key Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your kids will love reading about popular footballer Neymar with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who he is, how he has become such a huge football star, and key points in his career. Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions. This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work. Included: 1 page reading passage 2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each) Answer key Check out our Messi reading comprehension! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a fantastic topic or project with links to living things, maths, art, and business. Your class will create their very own business selling seed bombs where they’ll need to create their business before making, advertising, and selling their seed bombs. It’s great if you can also find some space for them to test and use the seed bombs themselves. This project is fantastic for developing team skills as well as making their learning relevant and meaningful. **Teaching Structure: ** Read through the instruction sheet explaining that they are going to make a business selling seed bombs. Encourage them to think about the importance of local flowers and the benefits they have on the local wildlife. Put the students into teams of 4 or 5 and get them to mind map their business ideas (name, who they’ll sell to, how they’ll advertise them etc.). The following activities and worksheets can be taught in an order which suites you and your class best. Below we have split them into subject areas which best relate to the activities. **Art / Design: ** Design a logo Packaging design **Science: ** Which Flowers: Research which native flowers would be good to include (you can collect or order seeds online). Make the seed bombs by following the instructions. Optional: Design their own seed bombs by changing or adding to the ingredients used. They can then re-write the instructions on how to make their own seed bombs. You could go a step further and get them to create a TV advert for their seed bombs. **Literacy: ** Seed bomb instructions: Highlight the key features of the instructions. My Seed Bomb instructions: Re-write the seed bomb instructions with their own unique ideas. Advertisement: Students will create a poster for their seed bombs. **Math: ** Cost and profits / sale prices: For these activity sheets students will work out how much it costs to produce the seed bombs, decide how much they will sell them for, and figure out their profits. Sales Report: Students will keep a record of their sales, recording their profits on here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing. This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor. How to play: Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups. On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help. Check out Similes Acting Game. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. Enjoy! Contents: 1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting) 2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and stick) 1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and stick) 2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written) 4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written) 1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs Answer Key Check out our store for more great adverbs resources, including our popular 'Acting Adverbs' game.

Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice recognising initial sounds (A-Z) by pairing the letter with the initial sound picutre. This pack contains 5 puzzles (both in color and black & white background) which can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come! **Contents: ** 5 x Tarsia puzzles (color and black & white background) Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years English Animal Phonics Colour Matching Freebie Letter Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Math Dice Addition (1-15) Counting to 10 - Number Recognition

These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This animal themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic. This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column. This pack has a fun animal theme with graphics for each statement. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get creative by creating characters using only natural materials that can be found in your outdoor space. For this activity students will create characters using leaves, sticks, stones and anything else they can find in your outdoor space. The story ‘Stick Man’ fits in really nicely with this activity and can be good to read before letting the students create their own characters. Once you’ve given students time to create their own characters it can be nice to go around and share their creations, getting them to explain a bit about their creations. You can take this activity even further by taking a photo of their character and sticking it on the sheet (quarter page) or getting them to stick their character directly onto the sheet (doesn’t work so well if sticks and stones are used!) and then getting them to write some adjectives or sentences to describe their character around the outside. This activity can make a great display! More ideas… Once they’ve created their characters you can also get a learning assistant to interview them about their characters. Where do they live? What do they like doing? What are they scared of? Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A big set of literacy games that are perfect for a mid lesson brain break or as some fun lesson starters to get your classes minds in gear! Each game is designed to help improve literacy skills, from reading to spelling and writing, they have it all! Contents - Slides 1 – 15: The Riddle Challenge - Slides 16 – 34: Amazing Anagrams - Slides 35 – 41: Describe The Picture - Slides 42 – 47: The Persuasion Game - Slides 48 – 55: The Alphabet Game - Slides 56 – 60: Compare And Contrast - Slides 61 – 66: Complete The Sentence ------------------------ Enjoy! :)

Can you have an outdoor learning area without a mud kitchen? These fun labels are the perfect addition for your mud kitchens. Simply print them out, laminate, and stick them around your mud kitchen. Each label comes with a helpful visual to aid those early readers and EAL students. This pack contains 29 labels as well as an editable version for you to create your own. Click here for the editable version. You may also like our ‘Mud Kitchen Recipe Cards’. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose. I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher. Contents: - Scrapbook cover - Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own) - ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas - ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet - ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas - ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern) - ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas - ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern) - ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas - ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet - Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem) -----------------------------------

Unlock creativity and enhance descriptive writing skills through this engaging personification activity. Nature serves as a rich source for improving descriptive writing, particularly when incorporating personification. This hands-on exercise provides students with the opportunity to experiment with personification while immersing themselves in the natural world. Check out our Outdoor Onomatopoeia Activity! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your students will love using alliteration with this fun poetry lesson. For this activity they will head outside and choose a variety of different items for them to describe and complete the table. Once they have done a few items they can piece together their alliteration poem. This lesson will help students to understand what alliteration is and how to use it in their own writing. Check out our Outdoor Writing Bundle. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about

Who doesn’t love scavenger hunts? This is a great activity to get your students thinking about adjectives and how they can be used to describe things. They will go on a hunt to find objects that match the adjectives in the table. It’s a great way to introduce adjectives to your class or just as a fun recap activity. Resources needed: Scavenger hunt sheet Clipboard (optional) Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting item they can from your outdoor space and write a list of points as to why their item is the best using their persuasive language techniques. Once they have put together a strong argument they can then get into groups of 3 or 4 and have a debate about whose item is the best. As an extension, you could then turn their arguments into a piece of persuasive writing. This is a fantastic and fun activity to encourage the use of persuasive language, especially for your reluctant writers. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Get your students involved with this drawing scavenger hunt where they’ll head outside to see if they can find and draw all the items on the sheet. It’s great if you’re looking at your local area, wildlife, and observation skills. You can also use this activity to help introduce habitats. This resource contains a few different activity sheets that allow you to differentiate based on the things they are required to find. It’s great if you can have a discussion about the scavenger hunt after they’ve completed it. What did they enjoy drawing the most? What did they find exciting to see? What were they surprised they saw? Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This video comprehension takes a look at the ozone layer and its depletion. Your students will watch a video where they will learn about what the ozone layer is as well as what is damaging it and the issues that this has on life on Earth before answering a set of questions about what they’ve just seen. This pack contains 3 levels of differentiation as well as an extension activity where they will draw a diagram to show how the ozone layer works. What is video comprehension? Our video comprehension series is designed to facilitate the learning of those students who find reading tricky. It allows them to access the same level of learning without the need to read large amounts of information as they will watch a video on the topic rather than reading large amounts of text. We have found it especially helpful with our SEN students. Each set is differentiated three times. With the first level of differentiation requiring them to simply circle the correct answers. These worksheets work best if each student has their own device as they can re-watch parts of the video to find the correct answers. However if you don’t have one device per students or pair we have done this with great success by having the video on repeat on the board / tv at the front of the classroom. These activities are also perfect for home and distance learning. We are constantly expanding our range of video comprehension worksheets so be sure to check back frequently for new resources. Check out our other video comprehension packs: - Compost Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!