Two sets of 20+ images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child the opportunity to develop their comprehension skills. One set will link well with a Brazil/ South America theme and will also develop subject knowledge in this area. One set is for a topic on biomes.

Exemplar persuasive letter based on oil extraction in Brazil. To be used as a good example of a persuasive letter for KS2. Uses a wide range of vocabulary and sentence structures.

A series of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills. Each image has at least two questions, particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These images are great to use a a starter to activity and really improve the comprehension skills of readers of ALL abilities. This pack is based around a topic for the Romans.

Three sets of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child to develop their comprehension skills. One set will link well with a Brazil/ South America theme and will also develop subject knowledge in this area. One set is for a topic on the Romans. One set is to link with a topic on flying and aeroplanes.

Two sets of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child to develop their comprehension skills. One set links well with a topic on flying and aeroplanes. The other set is to link with a topic on the Romans.

Two sets of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These questions are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child to develop their comprehension skills. One set of pictures will link well with a Brazil/ South America theme and will also develop subject knowledge in this area. The other set of pictures will link well with a topic on flying and aeroplanes.

A series of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child to develop their comprehension skills. The pictures will link well with a Brazil/ South America theme and will also develop subject knowledge in this area.

Lesson to introduce different types of nouns: proper nouns, pronouns, common nouns and collective nouns. Opportunity to practice within lesson plus separate, differentiated follow up task. Lesson to introduce different types of verbs: action verbs (both physical and mental), ‘to be’ verbs, and modal verbs. Lesson includes opportunity to practise. Used successfully with my capable year 4 class in the summer term, otherwise is suited to year 5.

30 spelling lists for year 4. Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 4 curriculum. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 3 is merged with year 4, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups. Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling. Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach. Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings. These have also been used for recap work in years 5/6. Children may need to recap the spelling work from year 3.

Two SPaG tests for year 4 in the autumn term. Test one: 42 Mark test and answer sheet. Tests children's knowledge on: Using 'a' or 'an' Past/present/future tense verbs Identifying adjectives Identifying verbs Pronouns Paragraph punctuation Punctuating speech Possessive 's' Plural 's' Time conjunctions. Test two: 30 mark SPaG test. Tests children's knowledge on: Adverbs Common nouns Fronted Adverbials Nouns Adjectives Expanded/contracted word forms Expanded noun phrases Use of there/their/they're.

30 mark SPaG test. Ideal for year 4 in the Autumn term. Could also be used for year 3. Tests children's knowledge on: Adverbs Common nouns Fronted Adverbials Nouns Adjectives Expanded/contracted word forms Expanded noun phrases Use of there/their/they're.

Two SPaG tests for year 4. Ideal for the summer term. Both include an answer paper. Test 1 includes: Direct speech Indirect speech Proper nouns Pronouns Articles Subordinate clauses Homophones Co-ordinating conjunctions Subordinating conjunctions Present tense verbs. Test 2 includes: Writing and punctuating fronted adverbials Correct use of being/been Converting indirect/reported speech into direct speech Some year 4 spellings verbs Choosing appropriate co-ordinating conjunctions Correcting tense Correct use of were/where/we're Determiners Using subordinating conjuncitons and writing a subordinate clause.

5 Lesson PowerPoints and resources for activities for teaching or re-covering fronted adverbials. End of unit test on fronted adverbials - answer paper and mark scheme. Ancient Greece theme to all lessons/ resources so really good for supporting writing if you are doing a topic on Ancient Greece. The lessons could also add to children's exploration of Ancient Greek, including of: Gods, heroes, mythical beasts, temples and battles. Lessons explore what a fronted adverbial is and encourage children to consider where in the sentence it goes; what the verb is that it describes; whether it describes when, where or how; and what punctuation is required. Each lesson has a relevant task with it (task for lesson 4 is included within the lesson PowerPoint) Some critical thinking is required from children as they have to reason why their fronted adverbial was appropriate. There are opportunities for peer assessment. Lessons continue to re-cap children's knowledge, whilst also building on it. Very visual with use of images. Learning objectives include: We are learning to... identify a fronted adverbial; re-order sentences to create a fronted adverbial; create fronted adverbials; write fronted adverbials.

SPaG test focusing explicitly on fronted adverbials. Mark scheme included. Assesses: What a fronted adverbial is. What a fronted adverbial describes Punctuation Linking fronted adverbials to sentences Writing fronted adverbials.

Two Y4 SpaG tests, which are ideal for the summer term. Each has an answer paper and mark scheme. Test one assesses children on: Correct use of to/too/two Adverbs Pronouns Some Y4 curriculum spellings Punctuating fronted adverbials Creating expanded noun phrases Determiners Conjunctions Test 2 assesses children on: Possessive pronouns Use of Standard English Paragraphs Past tense verbs Conjunctions Fronted adverbials Homophones Inverted commas Subordinate clauses Brackets

Three easy to follow lesson PowerPoints to build on children’s learning about how to create an expanded noun phrase. Each PowerPoint also has examples for children to practise. Follow up activities for lessons 1 and 2 (lesson 3 is just on the PowerPoint) - each with 2/3 differentiated levels of work sheet. Focus is on building children’s knowledge to create expanded noun phrases e.g. determiner + adjective (s) + noun + preposition phrase. PowerPoints and work sheets are very visual, with supporting pictures. Included is a preposition phrase mat to support children in writing the preposition phrase. You may also want to work with your class on creating a word bank of adjectives.

30 spelling lists for year 3. Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 3 curriculum. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 3 is merged with year 4, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups. Each spelling has space for children to find out what it means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling. Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach. Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings. These have also been used for recap work in years 4/5. Children may need to recap the spelling work from year 2.

14 spelling lists for year 6 (enough to cover the whole year, with room for recapping spellings from years 3/4/5 as necessary, in time for sitting those all important SATs) Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 6 curriculum, or common exception words. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 6 is merged with that of year 5, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups. The bulk of the spellings are in the year 5 spelling lists, to allow ample time for recapping in time for year 6 SATs. Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling. Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach. Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings. Children may need to recap the spelling work from KS1, or years 3/4/5 (also available).