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 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

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

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.

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.

This pack contains eight classroom posters, each of which provides information on one of the wonders of the modern world. Arresting images of each wonder are accompanied by a variety of interesting facts, and blank templates enable you to add further facts and grow the display. It’s a resource that can be used to support geography, or feed into children’s writing. The pack includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, which gained honorary status due to it being the one remaining wonder from ancient times. The posters in this pack are: The Great Pyramid of Giza The Great Wall of China Petra The Colosseum Chichen Itza Machu Picchu The Taj Mahal Christ the Redeemer

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.

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on punctuating direct speech. As well as learning about punctuating direct speech, 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: Teacher notes PowerPoint Punctuating direct speech challenge worksheet Reporting clause cards Writing plan Upleveling writing sheet Jack and the Beanstalk story sheet

This synonym card pack helps children to experiment with using different synonyms to make their writing more interesting. There are 14 sets of 8 synonym cards in this pack, and two larger synonym groups for ‘walk’ and ‘said’. The synonyms can be cut out and given to children or groups of pupils. Each set of synonym cards is available in two sizes, and blank versions are also provided so that children can add their own synonyms to grow a group. The synonym ladders included in this pack can be used to group the synonyms according to intensity, with the loudest, largest or more intense version of that synonym at the top of the scale.

This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on subordinating conjunctions. As well as learning how to break down and indentify the different parts of a sentence, 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 Subordinating conjunction worksheets Clause cards Writing plan Uplevelling sentences worksheet

This Celtic Legend retells the tale of how Cúchulainn defended Ulster during the cattle raid of Cooley. It can be used to test comprehension skills in KS2. It also provides a model text and prompts for 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. A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Celtic legend.

This Greek Myth tale, retelling the tale of Orpheus’ quest to the Underworld, 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 20 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary. A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Greek Myth.

This pack contains five interactive KS inference posters illustrating different ways that children can use context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to illustrate this strategy. Blank balloon templates and wall display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas on your wall display. The posters included in this pack are: Conjunctions Inference Definition Example Antonym Synonym Also included in the pack are 20 unfamiliar words with their definitions so that children can use these to create their own inference sentences.

This KS1 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on the past and present tense. As well as using examples to establish what the past and present tense should look like, there are card sorting activities and sentences with errors to correct - all of which leads to a piece of creative writing about being shipwrecked on a desert island. 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 Tenses worksheet Irregular verb cards Writing plan Upleveling sentences worksheet