This lesson acts as an introduction/ recap of synonyms and antonyms as well as focussing on adjectives. The activities will help children identify how changing adjectives can create effective sentences. Included are all the resources needed for the lesson.

A fact file/ knowledge organiser that can be stuck in children's books when doing the instruction genre in writing or for a help sheet if they are writing a set of instructions in a foundation subject. Included on the sheet is a list of key vocabulary and a set of examples for time adverbials and for imperative verbs.

Resources linked to the oi/oy phoneme.

An activity that works on children being able to identify verbs in a sentence. These have been created for LA or SEN children to help them build their understanding of verbs.

Different activities that can be used when teaching Phase 2 phonics.

An activity based around -er for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the er phoneme where children can then practise seeing what words they can create when blending sounds together. Recommended to print two sets of the letter cards.

An activity that includes pictures where each word includes -ch within it. For each one, children need to identify what it is before then trying to sound it out to spell it accurately.

Five activities that work well for KS2 children in English looking at Fireworks night. Includes: defining the meaning of words, reading for understanding and creating written pieces themselves.

45 flash cards that can be used for common exception words in Year 1 or higher up where children are still struggling with these words.

Word cards that include the different words from the statutory list of spellings for children in Years 3 and 4.

An activity based around -ay/ ai for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the ay/ai phoneme where children can then practise seeing what words they can create when blending sounds together. Recommended to print two sets of the letter cards.

A simple grid resource that can be used as part of a 50 word writing challenge. This could be used to write poems or short stories or plan concise paragraphs, with the 50 block grid ensuring children are concise in their written work.

A three-way differentiated resource that is a reading comprehension based on an extract from the first chapter of The Iron Man.

Different word cards that include the air phoneme/ grapheme on them that children can read through blending together.

A mini fact file that introduces information about Remembrance Day for KS2 children.

Two versions of the poem ‘In Flanders Field’ (one is a normal version and one has numbered lines for getting children to find answers via line numbers) that also then includes a vocabulary activity and a comprehension activity that link to the poem. Answers are also included for both activities.

Two different simple noun sorting activities that can be used as an activity. The first is a simple noun sorting activity that requires children to sort eight labelled pictures of nouns into people, places or things. The second is a simple noun sorting activity that requires children to sort different nouns into whether they are common or proper. The common nouns are all examples of nouns they would expect to see in a classroom so that these can be put in context.

This lesson acts as an introduction/ recap of synonyms and antonyms as well as focussing on verbs. The activities will help children identify how changing verbs can create effective sentences. Included are all the resources needed for the lesson. N.B The lesson resources are titled lesson 2 as it is the secondlesson from a bigger sequence of learning.

Resources linked to the -er phoneme.

A reading comprehension activity linked to the first chapter from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The chapter has a comprehension activity that includes 20 questions that work on different skills as well as also having the answers included separately.