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Spag Punctuation posters: KS1 KS2 Years 1 to 6 display pack
A set of 22 A4 posters describing, naming and explaining different types of punctuation
The posters cover all the punctuation outlined in the English National Curriculum.
The titles of the posters are:
Punctuation
Capital letters
Spaces
Sentence
Full stop
Question mark
Exclamation mark
Apostrophes for contractions
Apostrophes for ownership
Comma
Commas for lists
Inverted commas
Ellipsis
Hyphen
Colons to introduce a list
Colons for independent clauses
Semi-colon
Bullet points
Dash
Brackets
Plus 2 'DO NOT...' posters:
Do not use an apostrophe for 'its' when it is a possessive adjective
Do not use an apostrophe for plurals
Each poster contains the title and explanation and an image / examples
Plus a 'Punctuation' banner that prints onto 3 A4 pages and a border to frame a display.
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Homophones and other confusing words
Resources to teach the guidelines for spelling homophones and other words that are often confused.
POWERPOINTS
Each Powerpoint gives definitions/explanations of each homophone, then ends with an activity for the children to work out which homophone is appropriate in different sentences.
Homophones - nouns and verbs: advice advise, device devise, licence license and practice practise.
Homophones 1: aisle isle, aloud allowed, affect effect, altar alter, ascent assent, bridal, bridle, cereal serial, complement compliment
Homophones 2: descent dissent, desert dessert, draft draught, farther father, guessed guest, heard herd, led, lead morning, mourning
Homophones 3: past passed, precede proceed, principal principle, profit prophet, stationary stationery, steal steel, wary weary, who's whose
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES:
Look Write Cover Check x 7: For spelling practice, containing the words in the above PowerPoints
Worksheets x 7: To write definitions of the homophones and think of ways to remember how to spell them.
Definition and word cards x 3: Three sets of homophones and corresponding definitions for matching games etc.
SPaG Year 6 Word Grammar: How words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms
POWERPOINTS:
The history of the English language: A history, plus an explanation of why the English language has so many synonyms.
Synonyms: Explains what they are and gives 11 words with related synonyms.
Antonyms: Explains what they are and gives 12 words with corresponding antonyms, plus 7 words with several antonyms.
Antonyms and prefixes beginning with 'i': Formation of antonyms by adding im, in or il to words.
Antonyms and prefixes recap: Activity to make words by adding a range of prefixes covered in previous years, to make antonyms.
PRINTABLE FILES (PDF):
Synonyms worksheet: For finding synonyms
Antonyms worksheet: re-write the sentences to make it mean the opposite
House for sale - antonyms worksheet: Rewrite the advert using antonyms
House for sale - synonyms worksheet: Rewrite the advert using synonyms
Antonym cards (2 sets): Matching sets - easy and more difficult
Handwriting sheets for KS1: lower and upper case letters and digits
This set contains a variety of writing worksheets to promote correct letter formation.
The font used throughout is Sassoon, plus a slanted dotted handwriting version in the lower case letter packs
PENCIL CONTROL SHEETS: A range of pre-letter formation sheets to get children used to the directions and actions needed for writing letters
Arches
Crosses
Curls
Lines
Peaks
Snakes
Zigzags
Zeds
LOWER CASE LETTERS: This set consists of 4 folders of different handwriting families
SET 1: Downward strokes
Dotted letters l t i j
Dotted letters u and y
Sassoon letters l t i j
Sassoon letters u and y
All downward letters
SET 2: Down and retrace
Downward letters b k h dotted
Downward letters m n r p dotted
Sassoon downward letters b k h k (2 versions with curly/straight k)
Sassoon downward letters r m n p
All down/retrace letters
SET 3: curly letters
Curly letters a c o dotted
Curly letters d g q dotted
Sassoon curly letters a c o
Sassoon curly letters d g q
Sassoon curly letters e f s (curly and straight versions of f)
Sassoon curly letters c o a d g q
SET 4: Zigzag letters
Dotted zigzag letters v w z x
Sassoon zigzag letters v w z x
Plus a digit formation 0-9 sheet
CAPITAL LETTERS: These are divided into similarly formed letters
Curled capitals C G O Q S
Capitals diagonal X Y V W
Capitals straight E F H I L T
Capitals straight then diagonal A M N Z K
Capitals straight then curled B D P R U J
DISPLAY / ACTIVITIES
Topic covers - 5 different versions with the heading 'My Handwriting Book' for children to keep their work together.
Hollow letters: Each letter prints onto 1 A4 sheet. Can be laminated for finger painting etc, or used as activity sheets. There are two versions, one with large letters filling the page, the other with smaller letters.
Lower case letter formation: This can be used for display as a reminder of correct letter formation, or laminated and used in practical activities. The posters show fingers pointing where to begin writing, where to end, and which way to go - children can see at a glance if they are forming their letters correctly.
BLANK HANDWRITING SHEETS
Two different versions with different line widths.
Where possible, alternate ways of writing k and f are included.
SPaG Year 1 Spelling pack: Adding the endings ing ed and er to verbs
A set of resources to teach the guideline/rule in the Spelling Appendix:
Adding the endings ing ed and er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word
POWERPOINTS:
Adding ing: Explains what a verb is and how ing can be added to verbs where no change in spelling is needed. Ends with an activity
Adding ed: Explains what a verb is and how adding ed changes the tense of the verb to the past tense. It ends with an activity
Adding er: Explains the effect of adding er to a verb and gives examples. Ends with an activity for the children to add er to verbs.
PDF:
Adding suffixes er ing ed: A list of words in a grid to add suffixes to.
Word wheel - Adding ed and ing: Verbs and suffixes for word building activities.
Word wheel - Adding ed, ing and er: Verbs and suffixes for word building activities.
WORD:
Outline adaptable plan
KS2 HOMOPHONES posters / flashcards
A set of A4 posters containing all the homophones identified in the Year 3/4 and 5/6 spelling appendix.
Each page is split into 2 so that 2 homophones are printed on one page. You can cut them in half and use as flashcards or leave them whole and display them. For Y3/4 there are 21 pages, plus 3 pages containing just one word. For Y4/5 there are 24 pages plus 1 page containing just one word, plus a set of 4 noun/verb posters.
3 & Y4 HOMOPHONES:
accept except
affect effect
ball bawl
berry bury
brake break
fair fare
grate great
groan grown
here hear
heel heal he’ll
knot not
mail male
meat meet
medal meddle
missed mist
peace piece
plain plane
rain rein reign
scene seen
weather whether
whose who’s
Y5 & Y6 HOMOPHONES:
aisle isle
aloud allowed
affect effect
altar alter
ascent assent
bridal bridle
cereal serial
compliment complement
descent dissent
desert dessert
draft draught
farther father
guessed guest
heard herd
led lead
morning mouring
past passed
precede proceed
principal principle
prophet profit
stationary stationery
steel steal
wary weary
who’s whose
Y5 & Y6 HOMOPHONES - nouns and verbs: Each set prints onto 1 A4
advice advise
device devise
licence license
practice practise
SPaG Year 1 Spelling pack: Adding er and est to adjectives
A set of resources to teach the guideline/rule in the Spelling Appendix:
if the adjective ends in two consonant letters (the same or different), the ending is simply added on.
POWERPOINTS:
Adding er and est for comparisons: Explains that er and est can be added to words for comparison and shows examples in a single word and in sentences. It ends with an activity for children to add er and est to words, then form sentences using the suffixes er and est.PDF:
PDF:
er and est sentences worksheet: A list of words to add er and est to, and space for the children to write sentences with them in.
er and est word cards: For games and activities.
WORD:
Outline adaptable plan
SPaG Year 3 Sentence Grammar: Time, place & cause using conjunctions, adverbs & prepositions
Includes a powerpoint, vocabulary cards and a set of posters.
POWERPOINT: explains the difference between conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, giving examples of where and how to use them.
4 sets of display:
SET 1 Time place and cause connectives: This set contains 3 headings and sets of words in clouds to display around the headings time, cause and place. There are blank clouds for you to add your own.
SET 2) Conjunctions adverbs and prepositions cards: In this set there are 5 words per A4 page which can be cut up for display. The words are organised into conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions with an A4 title for each.
SET 3) Conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions posters: These posters splits the connectives into sets of Time/Cause/Place and conjunctions/adverbs/prepositions. There are 7 A5 pages plus a title page.
SET 4) Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions: These posters explain the difference between the two types of conjunctions and give examples of each in clouds.
EYFS Rhythm and Rhyme phonic activities resource pack
This pack is a collection of PowerPoints and printable resources in pdf. It will help give children experience how words rhyme, and to develop an awareness of rhythm in speech. Listening to and joining in with rhymes and playing rhyming games help children to develop skills to know how letters correspond to sounds.
Fits in with Letters and Sounds Phase 1.
PRINTABLE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES:
• Dominoes – showing pictures of simple cvc words
• Odd one out cards – print, cut and laminate for a rhyming game
• Rhyming pairs – 40 images showing pictures of rhyming pairs. There are 4 per A4 page so can also be used for display or flashcards
• Rhyming soup game – A printable version of the powerpoint. The children have to make a soup out of rhyming objects (eg snake, cake, rake etc)
• Rhyming words bingo – 4 bingo cards with 7 pictures each.
• Two rhyming worksheets
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DISPLAY:
• Large lettering: Rhymes (one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.)
• Large lettering: Rhyme Time(one letter per A4 page, if you want them smaller you can alter the print settings.)
• What rhymes with….posters – A set of 6 A4 colourful posters with pictures of rhyming words. Rhymes include what rhymes with…can / hat / pot / bug / cap and zip.
POWERPOINT GAMES:
• Can you think of words that rhyme - Simple introduction to rhyming.
• Making up rhymes - Explains rhyming words, and then encourages the children to make up rhymes using the images.
• Odd one out - Find the picture that doesn’t rhyme from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback.
• Playing with words - 20 images of words with longer syllables.
• Rhyming pairs - Find the rhyming pair from a choice of 3, with immediate feedback.
• Rhyming puppets - 14 name rhymes for the children to finish.
• Rhyming soup - ake - An interactive version of the game, the children click on the object to put it in the soup bowl.
• Rhyming soup - an
• Rhyming soup - at
• Rhyming soup – ip
• Rhyming soup – ox
• Rhyming words - 11 sets of rhyming words, encouraging the children to make up rhymes with them.
• Words that rhyme - Find the 2 pictures that rhyme from a choice of 3.
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POWERPOINT RHYMES:
• A pig who was big - 9 rhyming verses about pigs
• Action Rhymes - 8 different rhymes: Two little feet / I wiggle / This is the way / Wind the bobbin up / A sailor went to sea / Jack-in-the-box / Clean up/ I’m a little teapot / Row your boat.
• 5 fat peas
• Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
• Down in the jungle
• Head, shoulders, knees and toes
• Katalina Matalina
• Peanut butter
• Ten fingers
• The Farmer’s in his den
• The wheels on the bus
• There was a princess
Year 4 Vocabulary grammar and punctuation terminology posters
A set of A4 posters to print and display.
They contain all the 'terminology for pupils' identified in Appendix 2 for Year 4:
Determiner; Pronoun; Possessive pronoun; Adverb; Adverbial; Fronted adverbial; Plural; Verb inflections; Nouns; Possessive apostrophe; Sentence; Punctuation
SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Contractions
Resources to teach the spelling rules for: The use of apostrophes in contractions
POWERPOINT
Introduction to contractions: Explains what contractions are and shows examples of them in newspaper headlines. It then demonstrates how different contractions are formed. It ends with an oral activity for the children to say the long form of the contraction in each sentence.
Writing contractions: A writing activity where the children have to change the words into contractions
Changing contractions to the full form: As above, but the other way round
Its or it’s: Explains the differences, with sentences for the children to guess which is correct
Your or you’re: As above
ACTIVITIES
Cards - Sentences with contractions: The children can rewrite them in the long form
Cards - Contractions snap
Show me cards - its or it’s
Show me cards - your or you’re
Worksheet - Change the words into contractions
Worksheet - Change the contractions into the long form
Worksheet - Complete the contraction matrix
Worksheet - Find the contractions in the story
Newspaper report
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Contractions: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant contractions
SPaG Year 5 Punctuation: Parenthesis (brackets, dashes, commas) and commas to clarify meaning
This pack contains 2 powerpoint lessons:
Parenthesis: How brackets, dashes or commas can be used to indicate parenthesis.
Commas: Gives examples of what can happen if commas are omitted, and how they are important to the intended meaning.
SPaG Year 3 Grammar: Use of the forms a or an
A powerpoint explaining when to use a and when to use an, with an interactive activity for the children to choose the correct form.
SPaG Year 1 : Plural noun suffixes powerpoint and worksheet
A powerpoint lesson, worksheet and plan on plural noun suffixes:
Plural noun suffixes: A powerpoint explaining the meaning of singular, plural and what a suffix is. It explains what effect the addition of s or es has on nouns.It ends with an interactive game.
Plural noun suffix worksheet
SPaG Year 2 Spelling: the /n/ sound spelt kn and gn
A set of resources looking at the /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words.
POWERPOINT: Explains the spelling and gives a short explanation of why these types of word exist, then gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide and check format
BINGO: Two sets, kn words and kn and gn words
CARDS: Matching cards with words and pictures
WORDSEARCH: kn words
WORD DOCUMENTS: Lists of words and a planning document.
Subordination and co-ordination powerpoint, worksheets and posters: SPaG Year 2 Sentence
A PowerPoint lesson explaining what subordination and co-ordination are with accompanying worksheets and posters, designed to teach the Y2 Sentence objectives.
The set contains:
POWERPOINT:
Subordination and coordination
A 7 page PowerPoint explaining how to connect sentences and clauses using subordination (when, if, that and because) and co-ordination (using or, and or but.)
It gives examples of how to use them in sentences then gives sentence starters for the children to complete using the words above.
ACTIVITIES / WORKSHEETS:
Co-ordination writing sheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words and, but and or.
Subordination worksheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words when, if, that and because
DISPLAY:
Two posters explaining subordination and co-ordination with examples and a heading.
SPaG Year 2 Spelling: Adding the endings ing, ed, er, est and y to words ending in consonant / -e
Resources to teach the spelling rules for: Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –e with a consonant before it
POWERPOINTS
Adding suffixes to words ending in e: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, explaining the spelling rule. It ends with an activity to add ing or ed and er, est or y to different root words.
Quick write - Adding ed to verbs ending in e
Quick write - Adding ing to verbs ending in e
Quick write - Adding er to words ending in e
Quick write - Adding est to words ending in e
Quick write - Adding y to words ending in e
Quick write activities show firstly the the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added.
ACTIVITIES
Words ending in a consonant then e matrix: to fill in
TEACHER RESOURCES
Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes to words ending in e: An adaptable outline plan
Word List - With relevant words ending in e with a consonant before it
SPaG Year 3 & 4 Spelling: The /k/ sound spelt ch
Resources to teach the spelling guidelines for words with the /k/ sound spelt ch
POWERPOINT:
The /k/ sound spelt ch: Explains that these type of words come from the Greek language. It gives examples of the most common words with this grapheme, then ends with a writing activity.
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES
Look Write Cover Check: For spelling practice
Ch for the k sound worksheet
Ch for the k sound picture worksheet
Wordsearch
Although every effort has been made to check wordsearches for unintentional inappropriate words, it is recommended that teachers double check them before giving to children.
TEACHER RESOURCES
Word list
Adaptable outline plan
SPaG Year 5 Sentence Grammar: Degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs
A powerpoint teaching about how to indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs might, should, will, must.
Year 1 Common exception word cards
Set of word cards for games such as snap etc.