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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.
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice Year 5 and Year 6 words ending in -able, -ble, -ably and -ibly.
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 and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
Using these KS2 English worksheets, children can gain a greater understanding of rhyming couplets and use this knowledge to create their own. Activities encourage children to identifiy and correct rhyming couplets or verses where rhyming couplets do not scan well due to line length, choice of rhyme or a change in topic. Different prompts then encourage the children to get creative and write their own rhyming couplets and verses.
The worksheet contains five different challenges, which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions. Questions encourage creative responses and interesting images are used to stimulate ideas.
Revise Year 6 grammar terms using this fun and challenging tarsia game - perfect for home learning or classroom use!
A tarsia is a simple jigsaw puzzle, in which small equilateral triangles fit together to form one, giant triangle. Here, children need to match grammatical terms with model sentences to complete three separate puzzles.
Templates are also included to allow children to come up with their own model sentences, and create new grammar puzzles for their classmates.
Tier 2 words are ones which children might encounter in text but are less likely to use in everyday conversation. As these words are often unfamiliar to children, they can sometimes act as a barrier to reading. We have chosen 48 Tier 2 words for this Year 6 pack.
The Tier 2 words in this pack (provided as small cards for table sharing, and larger for display) can be used by children to add more adventurous or formal vocabulary to their writing. The worksheets can also be used as a reading comprehension activity.
Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions.
These equivalent fraction worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is also included.
Estimate volume (for example, using 1 cm3 blocks to build cuboids, including cubes) and capacity (for example, using water).
These volume worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 5 children. A variety of volume problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
Divide proper fractions by whole numbers e.g. 1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6.
These dividing fractions worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 6 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
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This KS2 grammar teaching sequence for ellipsis has been designed to help children revisit and remember a key grammatical concept from the National Curriculum programme of study.
The session provides a motivating and memorable image to stimulate discussion, before introducing the grammar element. Children have time to practise using this feature, before undertaking a short writing task to apply what they have learnt in the context of creative writing.
The resource includes teacher notes and a pupil worksheet.
These Year 3 and Year 4 spelling review worksheets, covering the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’, are an excellent way to revise and practise this word ending.
The KS2 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.
Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 5 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
The spelling patterns covered are:
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
words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
These review worksheets, covering words which include the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘o’, are an excellent way to revise and practise spelling.
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
Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 6 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
The spelling patterns covered are:
use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
understand and use the suffix -ation
add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
spell homophones and near homophones
spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals
understand and use the word ‘ous’
Included in this KS2 classroom resource are the nets for 12 festive 3D shapes. Also included are winter versions of the same nets to cater for children who do not celebrate Christmas.
These templates can be used by primary children to investigate shapes as part of a maths lesson, or to create present boxes for friends and family. Both make a great Christmas activity towards the end of term.
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.
This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on writing simple sentences, 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
Tier 2 words are ones which children might encounter in text but are less likely to use in everyday conversation. As these words are often unfamiliar to children, they can sometimes act as a barrier to reading. We have chosen 48 Tier 2 words for this Year 3 pack.
The Tier 2 words in this pack can be used by children to add more adventurous or formal vocabulary to their writing. The worksheets can also be used as a reading comprehension activity.
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.
This display pack is perfect for supporting Year 1 children as they learn to write simple sentences. Two sets of materials are included:
Set 1 reminds pupils to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop, and to read their final sentence to check that it makes sense.
Set 2 builds upon this and includes the information above plus reminders to form letters correctly and use ‘and’ to extend sentences.
Each set could be used at different stages as sentence writing progresses throughout year 1. It also enables you to easily differentiate by giving pupils resources appropriate for their stage of development in writing.
This pack contains all you need to teach a Year 1 lesson on using the co-ordinating conjunction ‘and’ to join words and clauses, or to revise the topic with pupils.