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SPaG Year 4 Text Grammar: Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
A powerpoint explaining what paragraphs are and how they can be used to organise ideas around a theme and a sheet to help the children plan out the main ideas in a paragraph.
SPaG Year 4 Text Grammar: Use of pronouns or nouns within and across sentences
5 POWERPOINTS:
Introduction to pronouns: Explains what pronouns are and gives an example of what text would look like if they were not used. It ends with an activity where the children read the sentences to see which pronoun should be used to aid cohesion and avoid repetition.
Pronoun practice: Exercise to see which pronouns should be used where.
Personal pronouns: A study of personal pronouns eg I/my/mine
Demonstrative pronouns: A look at this, these, that and those
Reflexive pronouns: A study of reflexive pronouns such as he/himself, with exercises to think of sentences containing them.
PRINTABLE PDF FILES:
Complete the pronoun matrix
Find the pronouns ( x 3): Read the stories and find the pronouns.
Indefinite pronouns: For display
Missing pronouns (x 2): Read the story and fill in the missing pronouns
Pronoun count: To use when reading to see which pronouns are the most common.
Pronoun list
Who am I: Picture cards for the children to describe using possessive pronouns
SPaG Year 3 & 4 Spelling: Endings which sound like /ʒən/ spelt as sion
Resources to teach the spelling guidelines for word endings which sound like /ʒən/ that are spelt as sion
POWERPOINT:
Words ending sion: Explains and looks at words with these endings, then ends with a spelling activity using the most common words ending in sion.
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES
Look Write Cover Check: For spelling practice
2 x word cards, one set with pictures, the other containing more difficult words.
TEACHER RESOURCES
Word list
Adaptable outline plan
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Endings which sound like /ʃəl/ usually spelt -cial or -tial
The powerpoint lesson explains that cial is common after a vowel letter and tial after a consonant letter and gives examples of the exceptions. It ends with a spelling activity
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES:
LWCC cial words: For spelling practice
LWCC tial words: For spelling practice
Word endings cial or tial worksheets x 2
Wordsearch cial and tial word endings
Word list
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Word endings that sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
Resources to teach the spelling guidelines for endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt cious or tious
POWERPOINTS:
Shus endings spelt cious: Powerpoint explaining the rules If the root word ends in –ce, the /ʃ/ sound is usually spelt as c. It ends with a look, write cover check interactive activity.
Shus endings spelt tious: Explains the guideline If you can think of a noun from the same root word that ends in –tion, then the /ʃ/ (sh) sound is usually spelt as t. It ends with a look, write cover check interactive activity.
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES:
Look Write Cover Check cious words: For spelling practice
Anagrams ending cious worksheet
Look Write Cover Check tious words: For spelling practice
Anagrams ending cious worksheet
cious and tious wordsearch
Word list
SPaG Year 4 Terminology powerpoint
A powerpoint explaining the terminology for pupils in Y4 - determiner,pronoun, possesive pronoun and adverbial.
SPaG Year 4 Punctuation: Apostrophes to mark plural possession lesson, activity and display
A powerpoint lesson and worksheet to explain who apostrophes mark plural possession.
POWERPOINT:
Possessive apostrophes with plural words: Explains what they are and how they are used. Ends with an activity to rewrite phrases using possessive apostrophes.
PDF ACTIVITY:
Possessive apostrophes with plural words: Similar activity to the PowerPoint above.
DISPLAY
Plural possessive apostrophes posters
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer
Resources to teach the spelling guidelines for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in fer
POWERPOINT
Adding vowel suffixes to words ending fer: Explains the rule then gives the children opportunity to write the words applying the spelling rule.
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES
Complete the fer matrix worksheet
Word list
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Word endings able, ably, ible and ibly
A pack of resources to teach the spelling guidelines for Words ending in able, ably,ible and ibly
POWERPOINTS
able word endings
ible word endings
PDF (PRINTABLE) RESOURCES
Look Write Cover Check able ably words
Look Write Cover Check ible ibly words
Word cards - able endings
Word cards - ible endings
Wordsearch - able and ible words
Word endings ible or able worksheet x 2
Word lists
SPaG Year 5 & 6 Spelling: Words containing the letter-string ough
A set of resources ( 1 powerpoint lesson, 6 printable files) to teach about the many different words with the ough spelling.
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.
Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation school assessment Years 1 - 6
A set of materials to assess Appendix 2 for Years 1 to 6 in the English curriculum 2014. It contains a booklet for individual assessment and also class recording sheets.
SPaG Year 6 Sentence Grammar: Informal and formal writing powerpoint
The powerpoint explains how to change writing styles/register according to audience, purpose and text, and what tone to use for each. Shows examples of similar sentence written in a formal and an informal style. Ends with an activity where the children have to turn an informal sentence into a formal one.
Letters and Sounds Phonics tracking assessment booklet Phases 2 - 6
This is a 9 page booklet in Microsoft word and a copy in pdf which assesses phases 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. It is written in Sassoon Infant font which is embedded in the file so will work even if you do not have it installed on your computer.
It includes assessment of letter sounds; tricky words; CVC words; non-word reading tasks; oral blending and oral segmentation; consonant digraphs; vowel graphemes; letter formation; alternative pronunciation for graphemes; alternative spellings for phonemes; and progression of reading skills in phase 6.
The Microsoft Word file can be edited and changed if needed.
Phase 1 Aspect 1 Environmental Sounds Letters and Sounds Phonics resource pack
A mixture of powerpoints and printable activities to encourage sound discrimination by listening to sounds in the environment.
SPaG Year 6 Sentence Grammar: Use of the passive
POWERPOINT: Explanation of active and passive sentences and how to arrange an active sentence to make it passive. Explains how and when passive sentences can be used
PRINTABLE FILES (PDF): Passive sentences worksheet: Change the active sentences into passive sentences
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
Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: set 1 letters- s a t p - powerpoint introductions
There is one powerpoint for each new letter. Each introductory powerpoint:
Introduces the new letter, shows a picture mnemonic, demonstates correct letter formation then reinforces it with an initial sound game.
Also in the pack:
A powerpoint showing each letter in the set with a picture to help the children remember the sound;
A set of letter flashcards of all letters learnt so far
A 'what begins with....' game where the children have to select an object that begins with the specified letter.
Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: set 2 letters- i n m d - powerpoint introductions
There is one powerpoint for each new letter. Each introductory powerpoint:
Introduces the new letter, shows a picture mnemonic, demonstates correct letter formation then reinforces it with an initial sound game.
Also in the pack:
A powerpoint showing each letter in the set and previous sets with a picture to help the children remember the sound;
A set of letter flashcards of all letters learnt so far
A 'what begins with....' game where the children have to select an object that begins with the specified letter.
Phase 2 Letters and Sounds phonic resources: set 3 letters- g o c k - powerpoint introductions
There is one powerpoint for each new letter. Each introductory powerpoint:
Introduces the new letter, shows a picture mnemonic, demonstates correct letter formation then reinforces it with an initial sound game.
Also in the pack:
A powerpoint showing each letter in the set and previous sets with a picture to help the children remember the sound;
A set of letter flashcards of all letters learnt so far
A 'what begins with....' game where the children have to select an object that begins with the specified letter.