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.

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 14 interactive posters illustrating Year 2 spelling concepts. Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images. Each image illustrates a word that includes the same spelling pattern. There are two versions of each poster. Posters with text – the images on these posters are labelled with the word they are illustrating. Posters without text – the images on these posters are not labelled so that children can look at the pictures and try and identify the words they represent and the spelling pattern or patterns common to them all. There are also graphics for you to make your own posters, which can be cut out and arranged in different patterns on the classroom wall. The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are: The ‘j’ sound spelt ‘ge’ and ‘dge’ at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as ‘g’ elsewhere in words before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ The ‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ The ‘n’ sound spelt ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ at the beginning of words *The ‘r’ sound spelt ‘wr’ at the beginning of words The ‘ul’ sound spelt –le at the end of words The ‘ul’ sound spelt –el at the end of words The ‘ul’ sound spelt –al at the end of words Words ending –il The ‘ai’ sound spelt ‘y’ at the end of words Adding –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 resources in this KS2 art ideas lesson pack are designed to support teaching the use of warm and cold colours in drawings and paintings. It contains: A lesson plan – The can be used during one lesson or can be broken down and used over more than one session. Children will learn how using warm or cold colours can affect the look and feel of a painting, and then apply this to their own artwork. PowerPoint – This supports the teaching of the lesson plan with examples of different famous paintings, looking at what effect altering the colours has on the viewer.

This pack contains six SATs style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support. The spelling patterns covered on this Year 4 spelling test are: Use more prefixes. Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one Use the suffix -ly Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’ Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’ Spell homophones Spell words that are often misspelt Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’ Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’ Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’ Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto- Understand and add suffix -ation, Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que Spell homophones and near-homophones Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4 Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’ Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals

These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 3 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List. All of the Year 3 spelling words are covered across 11 challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues. The spelling patterns covered are: use the prefix un-, dis-, mis-, re- add suffixes with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable. add the suffix -ly spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’ spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’ spell homophones spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words. spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’ spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’ spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’

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 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on expanded noun phrases. As well as learning how to identify and construct expanded noun phrases, 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 Expanded noun phrase worksheets Noun cards Upleveling sentences worksheets

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.

This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on using capital letters for proper nouns, or to revise the topic with pupils. It includes: colourful posters for teaching a word sort activity worksheets for children to practise and apply their new grammar knowledge

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.