A practice sheet for pupils who find difficulty differentiating between common homophones. 20 questions. Answers included.

Worksheet for KS2/3 pupils who have learnt singular and plural possessive apostrophe. 12 sentences with missing apostrophes. Answer sheet provided.

For younger primary classes. Ten thematically linked sentences containing capital letter and full stop errors which pupils have to correct. The sentences form a mini narrative about a child with a migraine, and suggestions are given in the teacher notes on ways in which the narrative could be exploited in writing lessons on various genres.

The poem about Henry King, who died from chewing string, is the text. Also included in the PDF are a poem analysis sheet and a jigsaw exercise to help with the learning of the text. Probably best for KS2, and would make a good lesson as part of a comic poetry unit of work.

For upper KS2 or lower KS3. This worksheet is for pupils who have studied the different ways in which commas are used, and who need practice in identifying them. There are ten sentences containing various kinds of comma. Some of the sentences contain more than one kind. The first part of the exercise is simple enough: pupils have to insert the missing commas in each sentence. The second part is more difficult: giving an explanation of the type of comma used. Answers are provided.

A set of 3 worksheets, each with 5 word problems. Tasks involve using percentages to calculate interest rates on investments and loans. Answer sheets and exit ticket included.

The second in a series of comprehension exercises from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The text (unabridged) is the description of Scrooge in Stave 1. There are 7 questions on the text, worth 20 marks in all. Mark scheme is provided. The same text is used as a starting point for four other exercises (cloze, punctuation, reading aloud, and spelling). Suitable for Y6 and up.

The beginning of Dickens' A Christmas Carol is set as a comprehension text suitable for upper KS2 and KS3. A mark scheme is supplied. The same text forms the basis of four more worksheets: a timed reading test, a cloze activity, spelling correction, and a missing capital letter exercise.

For upper KS2 and KS3. A sheet with 10 straightforward sentences for grammatical analysis. Each word has to be written in the appropriate column in an accompanying Parts of Speech grid. The first one is provided as an example. Brief teacher notes are provided on the difference between possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives.

A zip file containing three levels of worksheets. Differentiation is achieved by limiting denominators and numerators on the lowest level and by including cardinal numbers in level 3. Suitable for KS2 or 3.

A zip file containing 3 folders, each with 5 fractions worksheets plus answers. Level 1 has simple denominators (2, 3,5 and equivalents), Level 2 has a few more (2, 3, 5, 10, 11), and level 3 has denominators and equivalents of 2-12. This allows the teacher to adapt individual work to suit pupils' tables proficiency. Clear pupil instructions are given at the top of the worksheets.

The zip file contains 3 levelled folders. Each folder contains 5 worksheets plus answer sheets. The easiest level (1) has fewer denominators to work with and lower cardinal numbers. Level 3 is much more challenging. Good for KS3 and for more able Y6 pupils.

Maths resource for upper KS2. 3 sets of worksheets on simplifying fractions. Level 1 has fractions resolving to denominators of 2, 3 or 5 and is appropriate for lower ability pupils or those whose tables are weak; Level 2 questions resolve to denominators of 2, 3, 5, 10, 11; Level 3 to denominators of 2-12. Each zip file contains 5 worksheets plus answer sheets.

Differentiated fractions worksheets. The zip files contains 3 folders of 5 worksheets each with answer sheets. The task is to simplify an improper fraction and then convert it to a mixed number. Level one questions have easy denominators (2, 3, 5); Level 2 has slightly more tricky denominators (2, 3, 5, 10, 11); Level 3 has denominators from 2-12. Easy way to deal with mixed age groups or differing abilities.

The third in a series of comprehension exercises from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The text (unabridged) is the description of Scrooge and Bob Cratchit in the counting-house in Stave 1. There are 8 questions on the text, worth 20 marks in all. Mark scheme is provided. The same text is used as a starting point for four other exercises (cloze, punctuation, reading aloud, and spelling). Suitable for Y6 and up.

Bright interactive PowerPoint game. There are 5 categories (all four operations plus Roman numerals). Four questions, increasing in difficulty in each category. Pupils should be divided into mixed ability teams, and scores kept on a flipchart or whiteboard. Questions answered correctly score the number of points indicated on the home screen. Wrong answers lose that number of points. It is not possible to revisit questions.

Teacher controlled PowerPoint for whole class Look Cover Write Check activity. Words are revealed for reading, then hidden while pupils write them on whiteboards or in books. There are 59 two syllable words in the presentation, including some with medial double letters.

This resource consists of 2 sets of 40 task cards which will need either to be laminated or printed onto card. In the first set, a multiple choice activity, pupils have to identify the sentence type on each card and fill in the corresponding letter on the pupil answer sheet. For more able pupils, an extension activity is provided, where the verbs in each sentence have to be identified and written down on the challenge sheet. This task is trickier than it sounds, and could generate some discussion and further teaching, since some of the verbs are disguised within negative constructions or in contractions. The second set consists of pairs of cards labelled A and B. The A cards are all main clauses, and the B cards are subordinate clauses. Cards have to be paired to make complex sentences which make sense. There is no punctuation provided, so that the subordinate clause can go either first or second. Individual teachers may wish to direct the class to begin by putting the main clause first, then teaching/revising the punctuation rule which they need to apply if the order of clauses is reversed. Pupils’ work should be done in exercise books. A supporting poster is supplied for each set of cards.

This is cursive handwriting from the beginning. The first lesson covers the formation of c,a,d,g,o, and the animation in the PowerPoint show demonstrates top and bottom joins; the second lesson covers i,e, and the animation shows how the dot is put on the i after the word has been completed; the third lesson, which builds on the first two, introduces top loops with the letters l.h. Transitions between slides are teacher-controlled, but individual slide content contains conceal/reveal animation. There are PDF versions of the presentations which are intended for display. The PDFs of small cards are for laminating, and can be used in conjunction with the handwriting lines.