This is a fantastic 16 page resource that will enable pupils to master any text and develop their reading skills. The pack contains 8 full colour anchor charts as well as 8 skills cards that can be laminated for use with a range of texts. For use with a whole class, small groups or individuals, this resource will get you off to a flying start. For ages 7 and up.

This digital handbook will guide you through the range of grammatical knowledge that primary children will need to know by the end of Year 6. It has been carefully mapped so that it clearly shows progression within a skill, and to ensure that each skill builds on the previous one. It gives teachers guidance on subject knowledge as well as ideas for teaching and for challenging the more able. It is designed for you to quickly refer to again and again. It includes: - Articles and determiners - Parts of speech - Sentence structures (simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences) - Punctuation - Apostrophes - Tense

A fast-paced and fun game suitable for a variety of lessons. Teach children sentence structure, the importance of subjects and verbs, discuss parts of speech, or just compete against others to create the most ridiculous headlines.

Beat your opponent using this traditional pen and paper game. Use the words from the National Spelling Appendix to create your ships, and keep your fingers crossed that you can guess all of your opponent’s words and positions before they do. Word sets included with this download: Years 1 and 2 (8 sets) Years 3 and 4 (8 sets) Years 5 and 6 (9 sets)

-The Big Book of Grammar Teaching will give you clear definitions, examples and games to do with you class. -The Grammar Gang characters come in two formats- one as just the characters, and the other has them holding boards so that you can write examples of sentence structures and hang them on your class washing line. -The parts of speech posters will liven up any display, and they use the Grammar Gang characters for familiarity. -Hilarious Headlines is an amazing game that I guarantee your kids will love! The cards all have nouns, verbs and phrases. Children are given 5 random cards they have to make into a grammatically correct sentence. Purple Aliens Dab in the White House anyone? -Our prefix dominoes teach a range of prefixes, and will give you the chance to explain the role of root words without the children even realising! -Synonym Happy Families is a take on the old card game. Challenging in its vocabulary, the game asks the students to create families whose name has a similar meaning. Personally, I don’t think I’d want to be in family with Mr Fury, Mrs Anger, Master Hot-tempered or Miss Livid!

Perfect for teachers and teaching assistants organising interventions, this pack will have your English interventions up and running in no time. Worth £30 but yours for just £20, the pack includes: -Spelling Snakes and Ladders – Make your way to the top of the board without treading on any of those treacherous snakes. Land on a spell square for the chance to get ahead by proving your spelling knowledge. The game includes word sets for Years 1 to 6 based on the National Spelling Appendix with 40-54 words per year group. -Homophone Dominoes – Help your students consolidate their homophone knowledge. With 30 domino cards, they will be homophone stars in no time. -Dictionary Conqueror – Master the dictionary, collect the most books and race to victory in this 2-6 player board game with four levels of difficulty. -Text Detectives – This is a fantastic 16 page resource that will enable pupils to master any text and develop their reading skills. It contains 8 full colour anchor charts as well as 8 skills cards that can be laminated for use with a range of texts. -Prefix Matching Cards – Match the prefix and root word cards. Includes an accompanying prefixes poster. Match the prefix and root word cards. Includes an accompanying prefixes poster. -An hour’s video tutorial explaining techniques to teach reading effectively.

Encourage your children to remember key grammatical terms with our take on the classic game of Bingo! It includes the important terminology that pupils will need to succeed in the Year 6 SATs. Terms included: active, adjective, adverb, adverbial, ambiguity, antonym, apostrophe, bracket, bullet points, capital letter, clause, cohesion, colon, command, conjunction, dash, determiner, direct speech, ellipsis, full stop, hyphen, modal verb, noun, noun phrase, object, parenthesis, passive, past tense, plural, possessive pronoun, present tense, pronoun, prefix, preposition, relative clause, relative pronoun, semi-colon, singular, speech marks, subject, subordinate clause, suffix, synonym, question, vowel, word family. The pack contains 32 boards so there are enough for the whole class. Give definitions of a grammatical terms or ask a child to give a definition. Pupils with the matching grammatical term must cross it off and the first person to cross off all their terms wins.  To assess and reinforce understanding, ask a child to give the answer after each term has been described. Suitable for whole class or small group work.

This amusing tale, featuring Chika the gerbil, offers pupils the opportunity to enjoy a class story and develop their understanding through targeted questions. Specially written to enhance comprehension skills and put together in a handy PowerPoint format, it contains a story following the adventure of the young gerbil, who thinks he has found the ideal owner but ends up in a noisy Year 3 classroom! There is a new chapter for each lesson, along with discussion points and comprehension questions. It could be used in whole class settings, group interventions or with your children at home.

These AfL cards are a quick and easy way to remember ways of assessing the children during lessons. Hole punch them and put them on a key ring as a constant reminder.

A perfect accompaniment for those KS2 children studying space, Crash Landing is a five-part comprehension pack, which includes pre-reading questions as well as discussion and comprehension activities. Use either in your daily reading block or use it over a number of weeks to supplement work in English lessons.

Increase your students’ understanding of prepositions with this fun game, based on the journey of a ladybird.

Keep your eyes on the cards with this fast paced synonyms themed game of snap. Includes easy and standard versions.

Master the dictionary, collect the most books and race to victory in this 2-6 player board game. Dictionary Conqueror has been designed to students the practice needed to be competent dictionary users. In this game, they are challenged to locate words, give dictionary definitions and use the words correctly in sentences. Special race cards give students the chance to be the first to find a word, earning them extra points. Words have been chosen to expand their vocabularies as well as improving their dictionary skills. For an added level of difficulty, Dictionary Conqueror can be played against the clock. Level 1 – Players are given two words and they must say which would come first in the dictionary (frog/egg, hat/hello) Level 2 – Players find simple words in the dictionary (apple, happy, bird) Level 3 – Players find more difficult words in the dictionary (carpet, tulip, sword) Level 4 – Players find tricky words in the dictionary and put them into sentences to expand their vocabularies (haggard, proprietor, cower) Contains 44 pages.

A great resource for encouraging children to use a range of thinking skills. These cards can be used with or without real hats and can be applied to any text. They are particularly useful for KS2.

Match the prefix and root word cards. Includes an accompanying prefixes poster. Suitable for KS2.

Challenge pupils to create a sentence containing the adverb on their card. Includes an accompanying adverbs poster.

Synonym Happy Families encourages children to up-level the words they use in their writing by thinking of better alternatives. This game, which focuses on emotions, includes an easier version and the standard game that has been designed to increase pupils’ vocabulary. The aim of the game is to collect sets of emotion families. For example, the Happy family. In order to do so pupils must firstly identify the family and then collect the relevant cards from their opponents. Answer cards are included so the children can check their own sets during the game.

Parts of speech word searches for: Spring Summer Autumn/Fall (separate versions) Winter Easter Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas Each theme contains two word searches. Word search 1 (easier) asks the children to find nouns. Word search 2 (harder) asks them to find nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and to categorise them correctly. Each word search comes with an answer key showing the correct words and their locations in the grid. This is a fun way for children to revise their parts of speech.

Send your pupils on a book journey using this author themed tube map and booklet of activities. Download and print. Suitable for Year 6+.

This resource can be used at the start of the year as a quick revision of the four different sentence types. Towards the end of the year use it to consolidate the year’s teaching.