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Primary Texts provides resources to help support the teaching of reading, writing and speaking and listening at primary level. Resources are flexible, adaptable, easy to use and meet the requirements of the National Curriculum.
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Primary Texts provides resources to help support the teaching of reading, writing and speaking and listening at primary level. Resources are flexible, adaptable, easy to use and meet the requirements of the National Curriculum.
English language arts
Year 5 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Cohesion
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 5 text objective requiring pupils to explore the use of ‘devices to build cohesion within a paragraph’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
In the Dark, Dark Wood Poem: PPT, Worksheets and Activities
A complete lesson based on the poem ‘In the Dark, Dark Wood’ with PPT presentation and comprehension tasks. This fun spooky poem is ideal for teachers exploring scary poetry with their pupils. Great for Halloween! Useful for reading sessions or literacy lessons. Also includes guidance for two follow-up writing activities. A flexible resource with the potential for extension into a short unit of work. Suitable for KS1.
The PPT contains:
• The poem with supporting visual images
• Background information about the poem
• Discussion questions
• Details of follow-up activities.
The resource also includes:
• A copy of the poem. Useful for pupils to read, make annotations or highlight.
• Two differentiated comprehension worksheets.Worksheet A contains a task to explore pupils’ basic understanding and an activity requiring pupils to visualise aspects of the poem. Worksheet B is more challenging and contains tasks linked to language and expressing opinion.
Year 6 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Formal and Informal Vocabulary
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 6 word objective requiring pupils to understand the difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing. The PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 6 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Formal and Informal Sentence Structure
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 6 sentence objective requiring pupils to understand the difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing. [for example, the use of subjunctive forms and question tags). The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Adverbs KS2 PPT Lesson
A PPT based lesson designed to help pupils recognise and understand the use of adverbs of time, manner and place. The 13 slide PPT contains explanation, activities and practice exercises for pupils to complete as well as opportunities for discussion.
VERBS KS2 PPT LESSON
A PPT based lesson designed to help pupils recognise verbs; understand the use of past, present and future tense and consider subject-verb agreement. The 19 slide PPT contains explanation, activities and practice exercises for pupils to complete as well as opportunities for discussion.
KS1 Story Writing Kit
Resources to support fiction writing in KS1. Includes three story maps / planning sheets, a vocabulary card and a self / peer assessment checklist.
The story maps / planning sheets can be used prior to writing a fiction story. They are suitable for both creating a story map based on a model text, or planning a story.
The fiction vocabulary card can be used to support students during writing. It contains a selection of vocabulary lists enabling students to be more ambitious in their word choice when writing. Word lists are linked to areas such as characters, settings, feelings etc.
The self / peer assessment checklist is useful at the editing stage. It can be used to help students easily identify areas where improvement is needed. The fiction vocabulary card can also help to support students in the editing process.
All resources are fully editable allowing teachers to adapt them to meet the needs of their class.
Year 4 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Pronouns and Cohesion
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 4 text objective requiring pupils to understand ‘Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 6 Writing PPT Lesson: Write an information text
This PPT based lesson will help students to review the skills needed to write an information text. The lesson format is as below:
Discuss: Talk about the features and purpose of information texts and the set task.
Analyse: Identify the features that can be seen in an example text.
Write: Write a short information text about how to look after your health
Edit: Review work and identify improvements that could be made.
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LIfe Cycles Poetry Pack for KS1
Two complete poetry lessons for KS1 based on classic poems written by the poet Christina Rossetti. The poems are ‘Caterpillar ’ about the lifecycle of caterpillar and ‘White Hen Sitting’ about the lifecycle of a chicken. Includes PPT presentations, comprehension tasks and guidance for differentiated writing activities . Also includes guidance for performing the poems. Ideal for teachers exploring classic poetry, lifecycles, performance poetry and explanation texts. Useful for reading sessions, English lessons or science work linked to lifecycles. A flexible resource with the potential for extension into a longer unit of work.
The PPT provided for each lesson contains:
• The poem with supporting visual images
• Background information about the poet and poem
• Discussion questions
• Guidance on how to perform the poem
• A differentiated writing task to support students in writing an explanation text
• Video links to help deepen understanding of the topic.
Each lesson is accompanied by three differentiated comprehension worksheets.
These poems and resources are also available as part of a larger collection of poems in the following pack:
Classic Poetry Bundle for KS1
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Year 5 SPAG Bundle
A pack of eight Power Points linked to the specific national curriculum objectives for year 5 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Each Power Point contains:
* an explanation of the terminology
* a text containing examples linked to the vocabulary, grammar or punctuation objective.
* a short exercise for pupils to complete.
* opportunities for pupils to discuss and reflect on what they have learnt.
In addition, included are short assessment tests containing five SATs style questions linked to each objective with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 3 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Conjunctions of time, place and cause
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 3 sentence objective requiring pupils to understand ‘expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 3 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Forming nouns using prefixes
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 3 word objective requiring pupils to understand the ‘formation of nouns using a range of prefixes’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. n addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 3 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Present Perfect and Simple Past
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 3 text objective requiring pupils to understand ‘Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past’ The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 3 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Word Families
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 3 word objective requiring pupils to understand ‘Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning’. The PPT contains explanation, examples, activities and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
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Year 2 SPAG PPT Bundle
A pack of ten Power Points linked to the specific national curriculum objectives for year 2 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Each Power Point contains:
an explanation of the terminology
a text containing examples linked to the vocabulary, grammar or punctuation objective.
a short exercise for pupils to complete.
opportunities for pupils to discuss and reflect on what they have learnt.
Also includes
short assessment tests each containing five SATs style questions linked to year group objectives with accompanying answer sheets.
Year 2 SPAG PPT and Assessment Pack: Suffixes
Three PPT based lessons linked to the statutory Year 2 word objectives requiring pupils to understand:
Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er
Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less
Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives and the use of –ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
The PPTs contain explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, short assessment tests containing five SATs style questions linked to each objective are included with accompanying answer sheets.
Year 2 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Past and present tense including the progressive form
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 2 text objectives requiring pupils to understand:
• the correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing
• use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress
The PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 2 SPAG PPT and Assessment: Demarcating Sentences
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 2 punctuation requiring pupils to understand the use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences. The PPT contains explanation, examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion. In addition, a short assessment test containing five SATs style questions linked to the objective is included with an accompanying answer sheet.
Year 1 SPAG PPT: Sequencing sentences to form short narratives
A PPT based lesson linked to the statutory Year 1 text objective ‘sequencing sentences to form short narratives’. The PPT contains a variety of examples and exercises as well as opportunities for discussion.