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Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
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.
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
Use these KS2 comprehension worksheets to learn about the history of the Mary Celeste. This non-fiction text tells the story of the ship from its first voyage under the name of the ‘Amazon’ through to its ill fated end.
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.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the civil rights activist Nelson Mandela. The text covers Mandela’s early life as a lawyer, the introduction of apartheid and Mandela’s imprisonment and release, before his election as president.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This is a great resource for topics of famous lives, key historical figures and Black History Month.
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.
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
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 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
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"
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 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.
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.
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 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
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
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice words where the ‘r’ sound is spelt ‘wr’.
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 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
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 2.
1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.
The spelling patterns covered in this pack include:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y
adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
These Year 5 and Year 6 review worksheets, covering the spelling pattern ‘i’ before ‘c’ except after ‘c’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
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 5 and Year 6 pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 3 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 9 words containing a Year 3 spelling pattern.
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
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 ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’