A PowerPoint presentation that explains how to use to, two and too. Interactive activity and worksheet. Suitable from year 3 onwards,

An eight page long PowerPoint presentation for shared reading. Suitable from year 4 onwards.

Suitable for shared reading at Christmas. Suitable from year 3 onwards.

Perfect for Shrove Tuesday. A reading comprehension exercise with 11 questions. Suitable from year4 onwards.

Shared reading - a report. Information about Joseph Wilson Swan and Thomas Edison. Great to read while learning about electricity. Suitable from year 4 onwards.

A desktop 'mat' for pupils to use to check punctuation and some aspects of grammar. Suitable from year 3 onwards.

A PowerPoint presentation in which each slide has a different question for groups of pupils to discuss. Questions include: 'If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?' and 'If you could change one of your family's rules, which would you change?' Suitable from year 3 onwards.

A set of posters with 'tricks' to help them remember to how to spell: could, would and should, words containing 'ough and 'ight', believe, piece, because, does, people, separate, embarrass and friend. Suitable from year 3 onwards.

A worksheet on which pupils can use coloured pens to highlight: double letters, a word in a word, 'sandwiches' (two identical letters either side of another letter, e.g. ici) and vowels. They will consider the word's shape and draw a box around it, chunk it into parts using syllables, write it with their 'other' hand, write in capital letters, write with their eyes closed and speed write (write as many times as possible in one minute). A fun activity that children love! Suitable from year 3 onwards.

Suitable from year 2 onwards.

Pupils use information books and/or dictionaries to match terms to definitions. Suitable from year 4 onwards.

Reading comprehension text and questions at two levels of ability. Suitable from year 3 onwards.

Comprehension questions on the men's world records for long jump. Questions at three different levels with answer. Statistics for women's records too but no questions. Suitable for year 4 onwards. Goes nicely with INVESTIGATION: do children with longer legs jump further than children with shorter legs? also by joanneclarew

Includes success criteria, adverts pupils can identify with, 'guess the slogan' activity and lesson ideas that lead pupil to creating an advert to persuade. Suitable from year 4 onwards.

A report that explains the differences between mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish and invertebrates ideal for shared reading or could be adapted into a reading comprehension exercise. Suitable for year 4 onwards,

Interactive activity and worksheet.

An activity in which pupils 'chunk' polysyllabic words ending in -tion and -sion. Includes activity for pupils to match words to definitions too. Suitable from year 4 onwards.

An interactive activity with follow on worksheets and lists.

Introduction to homophones with interactive activity and worksheets for recording common homophones.

Use to teach making plurals from singular nouns ending in f, fe and ff.