Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy Resources File Horror stories have common features, such as: – a setting that is uncomfortable, creepy or scary. Often these are unusual places; – use of darkness and cold to unsettle the reader; – use descriptive words to create an atmosphere – appealing to all the reader’s senses; – create suspense through building up tension and sudden action; – suspense is built through long compound sentences and action is sudden and ‘jumpy’ conveyed through short, dramatic sentences; – dramatic endings and use of cliffhangers. - there will usually be a sinister, evil villain There is often an element of guesswork through clues given in the text. Who is bad – or carried out an evil deed – can be hidden and concludes with a moment of revelation; – include simplistic themes of right and wrong, and good over evil. This sheet is designed to prompt discussions on the features of a specific genre. Leave a review

Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy file. Read chapter 4 ‘The Keeper of the Keys’ from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling to the class. Put a plain cover on the book and do not reveal the title. Set the scene by reading a description of ‘the perfect place’ to stay from the penultimate page of chapter 3 beginning (he) ‘was pointing at what looked like a large rock way out to sea…’ .Explain to the children that as you are reading you would like them to the strategy of listening our for key features to help them decide which genre this story could be classed as. What clues are there? Leave a review.

The story ‘A New Friend’ This book is designed for use with children who are being taught Phase 5 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write using Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with accuracy in their independent writing and be beginning to select and use the appropriate alternative spellings to these where appropriate. Turn to the story and show children the front cover. Discuss what they think the book might be about and then open to the first page. Fold the book so the children can only see the illustration and you can only see the text. This is not a reading assessment. Children are not expected to read the text. Read the text to the group and then ask the questions printed at the bottom of each page. Read each page at a time and ask the questions as they go along, or read the entire book and go back to revisit the questions on each page at the end. Invite children to write the key words on their paper, ensuring that as you say them you do not sound-talk the words or elongate the sounds in the words for them. Leave a review

Jack’s Big Suprise Under the sea theme, This book is designed for use with children who are being taught Phase 3 or 4 Letters and Sounds. Children working at this level should be able to write simple words such as ‘cat’ and ‘mat’ confidently and will be using digraphs and trigraphs, such as ‘ch’ and ‘igh’ with some accuracy in their independent writing. Includes story with highlighted words to identify the key words of the story. Comprehension questions included on each page. Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with answers Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns. Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns. Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns. Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families. Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases. . Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Alternatively, get all 71 sheets from our TES shop 15 sheets with Answers Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns. Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns. Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns. Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families. Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases. Pronouns – to use personal pronouns correctly as subject and object. Verbs – to recognise the infinitive of a verb. Verbs Challenge – to ensure that the subject of a sentence and the verb agree. Verbs – to use auxiliary verbs correctly. Verbs Challenge – to explore the subtle changes in meaning when using modal verbs. Verbs Challenge – to change verbs from one tense to another. Adjectives – to revise adjectives. Adjectives Challenge – to explore synonyms and antonyms of adjectives. Adverbs – to revise adverbs of manner. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Root Words – to extend my vocabulary using root words. Homophones – to investigate homophones. . Noun Phrases – to expand single nouns to noun phrases. Adjectives – to identify adjectives not placed next to a noun. Description – to use descriptive words to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Prefixes – to build words by adding prefixes: tele, circum, bi, trans. Verbs – to revise word classes – verbs. Verbs Challenge – to change the tense of verbs. Prefixes – to add prefixes to verbs: dis, de, over. Suffix Challenge – to change verbs into nouns using suffixes: tion, sion. Suffixes – to change nouns into verbs using suffixes: ate, ise, ify . Prepositions – to identify and use prepositions. Adverbs – to revise word classes – adverbs. Word Class Challenge – to revise word classes – adjectives, adverbs and nouns in similes. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Root Words – to extend my vocabulary using root words. Homophones – to investigate homophones. Noun Phrases – to expand single nouns to noun phrases. Adjectives – to identify adjectives not placed next to a noun. . Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 5 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide is organised in an incremental way, later tasks being built on earlier ones. Step by step, each exercise calls upon skills and terminology already explored. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them The guide has three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. Each section has an introductory page which can be enlarged to create an explanatory poster for display purposes. At the end, there is a glossary explaining the terminology used in the book, as well as an answer section. Leave a review

Get the whole book via our TES shop 15 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Compound Words – to investigate compound words. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to improve my vocabulary. Nouns – to revise word classes – nouns. Nouns – to recognise abstract nouns. Suffixes – to use suffixes: ship, ment, hood, ness. Pronouns – to revise word classes – pronoun. Possessive Pronouns – to use possessive pronouns correctly. Determiners – to explore determiners. Verbs – to revise word classes – verbs. Verbs – to choose the correct form of a verb. Verbs Challenge – to correct past tense verb endings. Prefixes – to use the prefix: re. Adjectives – to revise word classes – adjectives. . Adjectives Challenge – to revise word classes – adjectives Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with Answers Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Compound Words – to investigate compound words. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to improve my vocabulary. Nouns – to revise word classes – nouns. Nouns – to recognise abstract nouns. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 4 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

This is the full book : Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 It includes 71 worksheets with answers. Blurb: Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. The guide comprises three main sections: word, sentence (including punctuation) and text. This guide is organised in an incremental way, earlier tasks acting as the foundation for later ones. Step by step, each exercise follows on from previous or earlier work. In this way, both the child and their teacher will develop a sense of the progress being made. At any particular age, of course, children will be working at different levels and may need either more fundamental or more challenging work set for them. Leave a review

Get the all 71 sheets via our TES shop 15 worksheets: Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Adjectives – to identify adjectives. Adjectives – to experiment with adjectives. Adjectives Challenge – to experiment with adjectives. Determiners – to know when to use a and an. Prefixes – to understand what a prefix is and to recognise some common prefixes. Prefix Challenge – to understand what a prefix is and to recognise some common prefixes. Prefixes – to recognise some common prefixes. Prefix Challenge – to identify and use other prefixes. Suffixes – to identify and use the suffixes: ful and less. Suffix – ful Word Search. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Get the all 71 sheets via our TES shop 5 worksheets: Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Two units from Make Phonics Fun Each topic within Make Phonics Fun is supported by a range of lively and appealing pupil text. The two units are based around the theme of starting school and the weather. Includes fiction/ non-fiction text, vocabularly words and activities based on the texts. Across the different genres, children are introduced through the fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts to a list of key words, enabling them to develop their decoding and blending skills. Real and pseudo words have been chosen to cover the grapheme-phoneme correspondences. Each topic is also supported by photocopiable, labelled picture scenes, providing visual cues for some of the key real and pseudo words to be tested. Care has been taken to ensure that the pictures representing the key pseudo words are of objects and items that are clearly meant to be imaginary. Leave a review.

It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills. Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1. The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it. Unit 1 available free on our both our website and TES shop. Leave a review

It can often be very difficult to teach inference to less able readers because they cannot access challenging texts. Texts that support the teaching of ‘reading between the lines’, or inference and deduction. The use of photographs as a first approach in this resource means all children can develop these important comprehension skills. This resource contains 3 units of work. Each unit contains: Text 1 provides a story or explanation about the photograph that uses inference to give information (there are hints, but the author doesn’t explicitly say what is happening);Text 2 is an alternative text which makes the story really obvious. There is little or no inference and the simplicity of the text provides a good comparison with Text 1. The texts are written to support the teaching of inference and deduction and will probably need to be read to the children. The point of the exercise is not for the children to decode the texts but to understand and answer questions about it. Leave a review

8 Activities for Years 1 or 2 linked to the study of 1950’s Britain. Activity 1: My Kitchen Today Activity 2: Understanding a 1950’s Kitchen Activity 3: Let’s Go Food Shopping in the 1950’s Activity 4: Favourite Food now and then Activity 5: New Toy, Old Toy (Sort the cards into the box 2 sheet activity). Activity 6: Draw your home Activity 7: Understanding the Names of Different Homes All worksheets can be done as homework or for home learning. Taken from the KS1 History Resources File (available to purchase on our website). Leave a review