Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 5 provide forty-four challenging and engaging Literacy homework activity sheets.
The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 5 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching.
The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 5 and are designed to be used flexibly.
Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types:
• Understanding and engaging with texts;
• Shaping texts;
• Sentence structure and punctuation;
• Spelling.
Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.
40 sheets support the development of other essential literacy skills and four that can be used generically.
They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 5 pupils.
The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also cover speaking and listening skills.
Our Literacy Homework Activities for Year 4 provide forty-eight challenging and engaging Literacy homework activities sheets.
The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 4 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching.
The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 4 and are designed to be used flexibly.
Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types:
• Understanding and engaging with texts;
• Shaping texts;
• Sentence structure and punctuation;
• Spelling.
Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.
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They include parental guidance and spelling sheets, especially for Year 4 pupils.
The Homework Sheets are in Microsoft® Word format and the activities also cover speaking and listening skills.
Our Mathematics Homework Activities provide you with a set of challenging and engaging Maths homework activities for every week of the school year.
Each maths activity addresses a whole or part of a learning objective and all the homework sheets are in Microsoft® Word format.
Includes:
Introduction
Objectives
Homework Answer Sheets
Counting, partitioning and calculating
Counting 1 to 20 / One Less, One More! / Estimate and Count / Placing Numbers / Counting On /
Find the Difference / Addition and Subtraction Problems
Securing number facts, understanding shape
What Comes Next? / Describing Shapes / Making Five / Making Ten Speed Test / Ten Less, Ten
More / Double It! / Shuffling Numbers / Add It Up! / Sorting Shapes
Handling data and measures
Taller or Shorter Than Me / Pizza Chart / Comparing Mugs / Showing Information / Balancing Balloons / Tin of Beans
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Money Amounts / In My Bedroom / Days of the Week / Money Problems / Measuring With Objects
What’s the Time? / Money Towers! / Months of the Year Line / Whole, Half and Quarter Turns
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Counting in 2s / Halves / Counting in 5s / Who Am I? / What Comes Next? / Sharing 20 Sweets /
Quarters / Dice Race!
Our Mathematics Homework Activities provide you with a set of challenging and engaging Maths homework activities for every week of the school year.
Each maths activity addresses a whole or part of a learning objective and all the homework sheets are in Microsoft® Word format.
Year 2
– Introduction
– Objectives
– Homework Answer Sheets
Block A Counting, partitioning and calculating
Quick Counting to 30 / Read and Write Two-Digit Numbers / Odds and Evens / Confusing Digits
Ordering Numbers / Adding and Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers / Addition and Subtraction Number Sentences
Block B Securing number facts, understanding shape
Number Facts / Multiples of Two, Five and Ten / Naming 2-D Shapes / Making Three-Digit Numbers
Adding Multiples of Ten / Symmetry / Doubling and Halving / Making 20 Speed Test / 3-D Solids
Block C Handling data and measures
How Many Centimetres? / More or Less Than a Kilogram? / Carroll Diagrams / Reading Scales
Collecting Family Ages / To the Nearest Centimetre
Block D Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
Use Your Head! / Half-Past Diary / Cheese or Mouse? / Piggy Bank / Estimate and Measure
Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days / Weights and Measures / Match the Times / Whole, Half and Quarter Turns / Right Angles
Block E Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Using a Number Line to Multiply / Using a Number Line to Divide / Double Dice Game
Multiply or Divide? / What’s the Number? / Dart Sums / Arrays / Halves and Quarters
5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school.
Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 3.
These worksheets include:
Instructions and templates to make a cardboard contours island (2 sheets)
River bend investigation
River speed investigation
Understanding Cities in the UK.
5 worksheets to inspire learning and encourage geographical curiosity both at home or at school.
Available as PDF to print. Designed for Year 4.
These worksheets include:
Mapping Puddles Invesitagion
Soaking up Water Investigation
Regional Study: East Anglia
The Water Cycle
Rainfall in the UK
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Encourage your child’s natural curiosity with this River Investigation.
Links to measure in Maths
Taken from the KS2 Geography Resources File. Available in PDF
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It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills.
Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1.
The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it.
Unit 1 available free on our both our website and TES shop.
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6 worksheets taken from our much love resource: Building Blocks- Themed Activities for the EYFS- Age 4 to 5 (48-60 months).
Activity 1: Spotty Blobster Poem
Activity 2: Draw the Spotty Blobster monster from the poem
Activity 3: How to make chocolate crispy cakes
Activity 4: Naming the foods I eat
Activity 5: What’s in the treasure box
Activity 6: Plan a surprise for someone you know
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It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills. This resource contains 3 units of work.
Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1.
The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it.
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This unit links to the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements in the Programme of Study and considers the key historical enquiry question, How do we find out about Florence Nightingale? It introduces the children to the idea of historical sources, introduces the concepts of old and new, and encourages them to think about the life and times of a famous person. The approach used could be applied to the study of other famous people. It provides a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their spoken language. It is helpful if the children have: ordered events in time and used everyday terms about the passing of time; answered questions about people/ events in the past using pictures and written sources; recounted episodes from stories about the past; looked for similarities and differences between today and the past.
Lesson 1: How do we find out about a famous person?
Lesson 2: The story of Florence Nightingale.
Lesson 3: Recording the life of a famous person: Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?
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Grammar and Creativity for Year 5
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them
The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section.
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5 worksheets:
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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15 sheets with Answers
Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns.
Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns.
Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns.
Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families.
Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases.
Pronouns – to use personal pronouns correctly as subject and object.
Verbs – to recognise the infinitive of a verb.
Verbs Challenge – to ensure that the subject of a sentence and the verb agree.
Verbs – to use auxiliary verbs correctly.
Verbs Challenge – to explore the subtle changes in meaning when using modal verbs.
Verbs Challenge – to change verbs from one tense to another.
Adjectives – to revise adjectives.
Adjectives Challenge – to explore synonyms and antonyms of adjectives. Adverbs – to revise adverbs of manner.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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5 sheets with answers
Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns.
Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns.
Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns.
Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families.
Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases.
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Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy Resources File
Horror stories have common features, such as: – a setting that is uncomfortable, creepy or scary. Often these are unusual places; – use of darkness and cold to unsettle the reader; – use descriptive words to create an atmosphere – appealing to all the reader’s senses; – create suspense through building up tension and sudden action; – suspense is built through long compound sentences and action is sudden and ‘jumpy’ conveyed through short, dramatic sentences; – dramatic endings and use of cliffhangers. - there will usually be a sinister, evil villain There is often an element of guesswork through clues given in the text. Who is bad – or carried out an evil deed – can be hidden and concludes with a moment of revelation; – include simplistic themes of right and wrong, and good over evil.
This sheet is designed to prompt discussions on the features of a specific genre.
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Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File
The sheet gets the children to recount the scene where Beowulf slaughters Fiend. Encourages children’s word choice.
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This is the full book : Grammar and Creativity for Year 3
It includes 71 worksheets with answers.
Blurb: Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
The guide comprises three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text.
This guide is organised in an incremental way, earlier tasks acting as the foundation for later ones. Step by step, each exercise follows on from previous or earlier work. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them.
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What? This assessment has been devised to assess children’s ability to segment words and spell them using the Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) introduced in Phase 5 Letters and Sounds.
Unlike the Phase 2 and Phase 3–4 Fun Friendly Phonics assessments this Phase 5 assessment includes elements of the preceding phases to ensure that children have a good overall awareness of the phonetic code and have not forgotten any prior learning. Therefore, within this assessment children will be expected to write tricky words, polysyllabic words and words containing Phase 3 graphemes.
Who? This assessment is designed for use with children who are being taught
Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write using Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with accuracy in their independent writing and be beginning to select and use the appropriate alternative spellings to these where appropriate.
Includes- Story, assessment guidance and assessment grid
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What? This assessment has been devised to assess children’s ability to segment words and spell them using the Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs) introduced in Phase 5 Letters and Sounds.
Unlike the Phase 2 and Phase 3–4 Fun Friendly Phonics assessments this Phase 5 assessment includes elements of the preceding phases to ensure that children have a good overall awareness of the phonetic code and have not forgotten any prior learning. Therefore, within this assessment children will be expected to write tricky words, polysyllabic words and words containing Phase 3 graphemes.
Who? This assessment is designed for use with children who are being taught
Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write using Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with accuracy in their independent writing and be beginning to select and use the appropriate alternative spellings to these where appropriate.
Includes- Instructions, story, and assessment guidance
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