Resources linked to the ai-ay phoneme.

A fact file/ knowledge organiser that can be stuck in children's books when doing the discussion genre in writing or for a help sheet if they are writing a discussion in a foundation subject.

A worksheet that gets children to practise using the correct version for there, their and they're. Included are 14 sentences where they need to make a decision on which the correct version is. Also included is the answer page so they can then check themselves afterwards and see where they may have gone wrong.

A story taken from BBC News about the need to charge people a deposit to reduce how many tents are being left at festivals aterwards. Included is the majority of the story and a comprehension activity that includes answers. Also useful for a discussion about plastic and what children think about the tents left behind and how they could be used/ how the issue could be resolved.

A sample of a future product looking at creating a range of grammar starters for each day of the week. These could be used as children come in first thing in the morning/ after dinner or at the start of an English lesson. Included is a week sample with 5 different tasks per day. These are a variety of task styles including find it, fix it, apply it and remember it. The tasks have been written with Year 6 in mind but could be easily used in Year 5 as well. An answer sheet is also included.

A complete writing unit for teaching explanation texts through writing one about the digestive system. It has been created with lower KS2 in mind but is easily adaptable. Each ‘lesson’ is broken into chunks of learning rather than directly being a one hour lesson. This means some of the lessons may take more than an hour and be completed over a sequence of lessons instead, with the focus being on the learning and activities within this rather than ‘rushing’ through in an hour. Altogether, there is approximately two weeks worth of lessons, with slightly longer depending on how long drafting, redrafting and publishing take. The unit includes lessons on: Features of explanation texts Cohesive devices Research Creating simple sentences Drafting and redrafting Publishing All lesson PowerPoints with notes are included as well as a model text, a summary organiser about the digestive system, activity sheets and a explanation text summary sheet.

A simple worksheet that gets children to work on adjectives in various ways.

A presentation and tasks within that get children to recreate images based on a description of a character. Included is a brief focus on adjectives before using extracts to describe dementors and Lord Voldemort. Included for both are then examples of different artwork and how they appear in the film to highlight how we all have slightly different images but that it is the adjectives that show us some form of consistency.

24 different questions for Chapter Thirteen of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

Two lessons that can be used as introductions or as revision for subject and object and active and passive. The lessons link together with one following on from the other. Included is: A lesson that focuses on being able to identify the subject and object of a sentence. Included is the lesson presentation which includes challenge questions and a variation style question as well as an activity for children to work through and an exit task taken from a previous KS2 GPS test on identifying the subject of the sentence. A lesson that focuses on active and passive. Included is the PowerPoint with some key recap elements before working on active and passive. This will include identifying the difference, identifying subject, object and verb and changing sentences into active or passive. Also included are green challenge bubbles for children who finish the tasks whilst others are working on them. There is then an activity for children to work through and an exit question taken from a KS2 GPS test.

40 different questions for Chapter Twelve of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

A worksheet on adjectives for SEN children who are working below ARE by quite a bit. Included are four different pictures with the start of the sentence provided with the aim then being that children write different sentences about the pictures using adjectives at the end e.g. The cat is cute.

A set of differentiated worksheets that require children to pick out examples of different clauses, including being able to identify the subject and predicate in a main clause and then being able to identify fronted adverbials, non-finite clauses, relative clauses and adverbial clauses.

Activities that work on children being able to identify nouns in a sentence. These have been created for LA or SEN children to help them build their understanding of nouns.

A display poster/ grid that can be made for children to stick in their book that includes some of the key features for 6 different text types in writing: Newspaper reports, Information texts, Discussion, Persuasion, Narrative and Instructions. These can be used for children to make comparisons between text types, to self-assess whether they have included the key features or simply as a reminder of some of the different key features.

A lesson/ two lessons based on discussions on being able to write character descriptions. The lesson is based on the mini story of Geri's game that is shown on Literacy Shed with the key element of the lesson focussing on being able to describe one character as if there are two people there. Included in the presentation is work on adjectives, the link for the clip, questions for children to answer (and answers my children came up with) and a small example of being able to write a description of one character as if he is two different people.

47 different questions for Chapter Eighteen of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

34 different questions for Chapter Eleven of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl that test a range of skills. These can be used for guided reading sessions or to give children as activities to support guided reading sessions/ whole class reading comprehensions. The questions follow the order of the chapter but don't have answers attached as the answers can vary depending on the child's opinion.

A help mat for writing paragraphs in response to questions, following the PEAK paragraph model with an example and different phrases included that children may want to include in their own writing.

A sample of the following resource: A fact file about Barack Obama that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 11 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Barack Obama at the same time. Included in the sample is the fact file and first set of 11 questions and answers. For the full set, visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/barack-obama-reading-comprehension-11747920