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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.
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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.
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The activity sheets are structured around the narrative, non-fiction and poetry blocks of the new literacy Framework. The content comes from common Year 2 fiction and non-fiction themes. The activities are designed to support work done across the curriculum as well as in literacy teaching.
The activities follow the main literacy priorities in Year 2 and are designed to be used flexibly.
Each activity sheet has a clear focus and advice to the adult as well as the child. There are four main types:
• Understanding and engaging with texts;
• Shaping texts;
• Sentence structure and punctuation;
• Spelling.
Each unit contains a mixture of the activity types.
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FREE Poetry in Motion resource pack includes: - 1) Drafting and Presentation, 2) Trees and Woodlands 3) Be Verbose with Verbs! Based on actual poetry work carried out by Roger Butts – a former primary school teacher, headteacher, advisor and lover of the outdoors. The activities encourage children to look carefully and closely for specific details, which will not only help them to understand and appreciate their environment but, helps them to create an effective and lasting image to convey their ideas and emotions.
Many of the ideas can be taught at any primary age group, as different age groups or abilities will produce different outcomes from the same stimuli
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FREE Phonics Resource takes a look at the long E sound. Designed for KS2 children who didn’t quite grasp phonics in KS1 … although perfect for any child who needs phonics help. If you want more, there is an interactive CD (PHONICS to SPELLING by Charlotte Raby) that is filled with excellent phonic activities, games etc. But for now, this a great resource to help instil phonics in a fun and memorable way.
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Racing to English
Great resources for teaching English as an additional language. Free resource includes :-
Set of photo cards and matching words.
Picture Dictionary Sheet.
Worksheets for oral and written work.
If you are looking for a comprehensive English as an Additional language resource then see the full Racing to English resource on LCP’s website. For now, this is a great freebie that we wanted to share. Let us know what you think …
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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.
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Taken from our Upper Keystage 2 Literacy Resource File
Includes all lessons and resources
Lesson 1: Inside a story- LO: To identify a point of view
Lesson 2: 2 Ways into a story- LO: To identify how different stories are opened.
Lesson 3: Colin Thompson’s stories and characters- LO:Identify the main parts of a story and to create a character profile
Lesson 4:Tell me a story- LO:To experiment with writing in different styles.
Lesson 5: Comparing story openings by Michael Morpurgo- LO:Compare the openings of two stories by the same author and comment on what makes an effective opening.
Lesson 6 : Does Tomas Believe in Unicorns- LO:To explore characterisation through drama.
Lesson 7:Tomas and the librarian- LO: To use empathy to explore the character of Tomas
About this unit
There are six units on fiction in this file for years 5 and 6. The second unit focuses on the work of modern authors of children’s fiction. We have chosen to focus on Colin Thompson and Michael Morpurgo, but it is possible to repeat some of the activities using books by other authors with whom the children may be familiar, such as Roald Dahl and David Walliams. The children will examine the story structures and aspects of each author’s style and will have opportunities to write short stories of their own. They will be encouraged to explore various characters and situations through role play and will work towards writing and staging their own short plays. They will develop the habit of keeping a reading journal (on paper or screen) as a way of supporting and extending reading. The Michael Morpurgo lessons are more challenging and you may wish to use them later in Upper KS2 than those on Colin Thompson’s books.
The unit focuses on Books by Colin Thompson, for example The Paradise Garden, The Paperbag Prince, Falling Angels, Sid the Mosquito and other wild stories and I Believe in Unicorns and Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo.
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An excellent piece of children’s fiction, ideal for your primary school library, Scrimshaw is an engrossing fantasy adventure from international author Nazam Anhar that features pirates, rough seas and adventure.
A fantastic journey into the realm of pirates and plunder, join Nathan as he voyages to far off lands and discovers a whole way of life that he never knew existed.
Scrimshaw also provides the perfect opportunity for teachers to explore elements of history, geography and science in their literacy lessons, making it perfect for dynamic cross-curricular teaching.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An activity to encourage children to think and collect alternative words for imperative verbs of direction.
Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File
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Read the adjectives and verbs and sort the words into two groups.
Comic, humerous or funny
Scary, threatening or unpleasant.
Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File
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This sheet has been taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File
Encourages children to think about the Features of a Comedy. It links to You Can’t Bring That in Here by Robert Swindells. But activity can be used without this book and can link to any comedy.
Dialogue: the repetition of ‘you can’t bring that in here’ which is then used by the gorilla at the end.
– Vocabulary: funny similes, for example, ‘the sofa looked like a tatty boat afloat on a sea of can rings and screwed-up crisp packets’.
– Action: Jimmy swapping a number of ‘normal’ animals, ending up with a talking gorilla.
– Authorial voice: use of the third person makes the reader sympathise with Jimmy and ridicules Osbert.
An introductory programme for children not yet ready to embark on the Renewed Literacy Framework
Week2-
To recognise and write letters ‘h m d g c o’
• To read and spell first 23 High Frequency Words
• To recognise sounds at the beginning of words
• To read and write a sentence using some HF words
SENsational Literacy is an introductory programme designed to help those children who are not yet ready for the Renewed Literacy Framework or who have been struggling to keep up with their peers in class. It is an excellent way to help them to them to gain confidence in literacy and build up the skills they need. Most importantly they will have fun with words and letters.
SENsational Literacy can be used by a teaching assistant to teach a small group of children who need extra support in literacy. After completing the scheme they will have gained the necessary skills to be able to join in with the main literacy class. It can also be used by the teacher to teach the whole class if extra literacy support is needed across the board. It is suitable for children in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and it is also suitable for other children coming into the school who may not yet be able be working within the Year 1 curriculum.
How long does the programme last? The children are taught one lesson every day for six weeks. What do the children learn? The children learn the basics of literacy through simple tasks, covering introductory letter recognition and the application of High Frequency (HF) words, underpinned by game-based activities and guided reading. A full overview of the course can be found on page 6.
What does the material consist of? Each lesson is divided into a warm-up and main activity. Once a week the children are required to participate in an activity to help to consolidate their understanding. Additional Resources Sheets offer photocopiable material which can be used in a variety of games during the class. Home Learning Sheets are provided to support each lesson. The children are required to do the worksheets every weekday evening to consolidate what they have studied that day as well as guided reading at weekends. You may wish to write to the parent/guardian to let them know that their child is studying the scheme and may need help with their daily worksheet.
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