This Greek myth, retelling the tale of the Minotaur and how it was defeated by the Greek hero Theseus, can be used to test reading comprehension skills in KS2. It also provides a model text and prompts for writing activities. The text is accompanied by 17 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of cohesive devices within paragraphs. There are a number of activities that demonstrate different types of cohesive writing, and challenge students to rewrite passages to improve the flow. 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 spelling Bingo game is a fun way to support children in Year 6 to practise and master key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.

The activities in this pack help KS2 children understand the subtle differences between adjective synonyms so that they can use them accurately in their own writing.

This Greek myth retells the tale of how Pandora released all the evils of the world. It can be used to test comprehension skills, including inference, and as a model text for story planning and writing activities. The text is accompanied by 20 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, including Tier 2 words. A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Greek myth.

In Year 1, pupils need to learn about exclamation marks. Teach how they are used in sentences with this brightly coloured poster, then allow children to apply their skills with the card sort activity and worksheets.

Encourage children to explore more powerful vocabulary when writing with this fun synonyms activity, suitable for Years 2-6. Ideal as a lesson starter, as part of any writing task or for home learning, word webs are also a brilliant way of keeping classroom displays purposeful and interactive.

These editing dice are a fun way to engage children with editing and improving their work. After completing their writing, children roll the die. Each face of the die highlights a different aspect of their writing for children to look at, and suggests an improvement to make.

These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words ending in -sure or -ture’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these spellings. The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. The worksheets are suitable for Year 3 and Year 4 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

These reading challenge worksheets provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text. Each activity sheet contains a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language. The stories included are: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe"

This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using similes in KS2 English. It contains examples of similes and 5 different simile challenges, which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions. Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.

This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using direct speech. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.

This review mat for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is an excellent way to revise and practise using ‘a’ or ‘an’. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.

These reading challenge mats provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text. Each mat contains a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language. The stories included are: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Time Machine by HG Wells

Not just classroom wallpaper! This pack contains six interactive posters illustrating key grammar, punctuation and spelling concepts. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain a GPS concept. These word balloons are optional. Blank balloon templates and display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas or to add to the existing examples. The SPaG posters included in this pack are: expanded noun phrases modal verbs passive voice perfect verb form relative clauses subjunctive form

A fun and exciting way to teach writing for a purpose in KS2 English lessons – asking pupils to convince a school member to eat insects! The resources in this pack provide an engaging way to gather writing evidence. Included in this pack are: 5 lesson plans on persuasive writing. PowerPoint – an introduction to entomophagy (the eating of insects) including a quiz. 6 question cards to prompt discussion about entomophagy. 6 question prompt cards with answers. 1 research prompt card to support children in researching the eating of insects. 1 research card with answers. Entomophagy vocabulary – 11 technical words and their definitions for children to use in their writing. Edible insects fact sheet. Persuasive writing planning worksheet. Persuasive writing editing cards.

Teach children how to write engaging and scary stories with this KS2 text types resource pack. There are sheets to help pupils plan against success criteria, instructions on the ingredients of scary tales, two detailed model texts and a story planner to help children structure their stories. The three sections to the resource are: A vocabulary and scary story writing guide A scary story text writing plan Two model scary story texts

This Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using the -er and -est suffixes in Year 2. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity for KS1 pupils, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. Children will need to define the -er and -est suffixes using their own words, and there are images and challenges to prompt creative responses.

Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on zoo animals. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals: elephants giraffes lions camels rhinos hippos

Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on pets. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals: Dogs Cats Rabbits Fish Tortoises Hamsters