This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on semi-colons. As well as learning about the purpose and usage of semi-colons, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work. The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons. The resources included in this pack are: PowerPoint Semicolons worksheets Clause cards Writing plan Upleveling sentences worksheets

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of complex sentences. There are a number of activities that demonstrate what a complex sentence is, and give students the opportunity to write their own. There are images to included to help inspire children’s writing, as well as prompts and partial sentences for them to complete. It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s descriptive writing skills when it comes to creating mood. There are a number of activities that help children understand the effect their writing has on the reader, which can be taught in a single lesson or spread over a number of sessions. There are images to give children ideas for their writing, and sections of model text that demonstrate how an author’s choices can change the mood of the text. It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.

Not just classroom wallpaper! This pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating different coordinating conjunctions. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain a GPS concept. Blank balloon templates and display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas or to add to the existing examples.

Teach children how to write amazing fantasy stories with this KS2 text types resource pack. There are sheets to help pupils plan against success criteria, instructions on the ingredients of fantasy tales, two detailed model texts and a story planner to help children structure their stories. The four sections to the resource are: A fantasy text writing prompt mat Inspiring images to help children build a convincing fantasy world A fantasy text writing plan Two example fantasy texts

This KS2 historical settings inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a Victorian theme. In order for children to write stories set in a particular period of history, they need to be able to know enough about the setting to distinguish it from life in their own time. The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way. The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail. The resources include: A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories Images to use as posters

Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Abominable Snowman. The text covers sighting and photographs, related geography and famous explorers who claim to have seen evidence of its existence. A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval. This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.

Enhance your KS2 classroom displays with this set of 28 posters, each of which shows synonyms for common words, accompanied by an eye-catching image, encouraging children to choose more ambitious vocabulary for their own writing. The common words covered in this pack, with the ‘instead of… use…’ message, are: *said (for nine different moods) *walk (for five different moods) *big *small *funny *nice *happy *sad *good *great *bad *scary *pretty *ugly *smart *old

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on coordinating conjunctions. As well as learning how to join clauses with coordinating conjunctions, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work. The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons. The resources included in this pack are: PowerPoint Coordinating conjunctions worksheets Clause cards Writing plan Uplevelling sentences worksheets

This spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 5 and above in practising key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups. Included in this pack are: 30 bingo cards each containing 16 words containing spelling patterns from Year 5 and Lower Key Stage 2. 1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out. The spelling patterns covered in this pack include: dis- prefix mis- prefix re- prefix un- prefix add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable add the suffix -ly words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’ words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’ homophones and near homophones words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’ words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’ words with the ‘ei’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ in- prefix im- prefix il- prefix ir- prefix sub- prefix inter- prefix super- prefix anti-prefix auto- prefix -ation suffix add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’ place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals -ous suffix word endings which sound like ‘shuss’ spelt -cious or -tious word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly words containing the letter-string ‘ough’ words with ‘silent’ letters

This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings. The spelling patterns covered in the Year 6 spelling test are: Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer. Use prefixes involving the use of a hyphen Distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused Uncommon or more ambitious vocabulary

Not just classroom wallpaper! This pack contains six interactive posters illustrating different way to start a sentence. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain a GPS concept. Blank balloon templates and display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas or to add to the existing examples.

Use this KS2 grammar game to help children explore different ways of starting sentences. There are two sets of cards - blue and yellow. The blue cards contains examples of adverbs, conjunctions, onomatopoeia, prepositions, questions, similes and verbs that can be used to start a sentence. The yellow cards contains clauses which can be added to the blue sentence starters. Not all yellow and blue pairs match. Children can experiment with matching the cards, or coming up with their own sentence starters or endings.

Not just classroom wallpaper! This pack contains six interactive posters illustrating subordinating conjunctions which can be used for classroom display. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain a GPS concept. Blank balloon templates and display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas on a working wall, or add to the existing examples.

This teaching resource is a great support for reading, analysing and writing Greek legends in KS2. It contains fact sheets on: The major Greek gods Mythical creatures Settings in Greek mythology Magical artefacts"

The images in this pack are designed to support children in developing their inference skills. Children can practise making inferences based on the visual clues in the pictures provided, and using evidence to support their answers. This pack contains: PowerPoint The powerPoint models how to construct inferences from an image and use evidence to support these. Inference Question cards Children can be provided with cards as individuals, or they can be shared in groups, in order to prompt discussion. Inference Recording sheets These sheets include an image from which children must draw inferences. Space is included for children to include their inferences, and the evidence they have to support these. A space at the top is available for children to add a title for their image. Inference images Each of the inference images is available as a poster. These can be placed on display or shared with groups of children during reading discussions.

This KS2 story writing inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a science fiction theme. The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way. The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail. The resources include: A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories Images to use as posters

Teach children how to write amazing science fiction stories with this KS2 text types resource pack. There are sheets to help pupils plan against success criteria, instructions on the ingredients of science fiction tales, two detailed model texts and a story planner to help children structure their stories. The four sections to the resource are: A sci-fi text writing prompt mat Inspiring images to help children build a convincing sci-fi world A sci-fi text writing plan Two example sci-fi texts

This Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using questions in Year 2. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. Children will need to investigate and define different uses of questions, and there are images to prompt creative written responses.

42 different idioms (a piece of cake, open a can of worms) are presented with exciting and arresting images. The idioms and their meanings are also provided on separate cards, so children can be challenged to match each idiom to its definition, which makes for a great group work activity in KS2 English lessons. Also included are completed idiom cards that can be used for classroom display.