A lesson/ two lessons based on writing and punctuating direct speech. 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 what the two characters may say between one another and ensuring this is punctuated properly.

An activity based around -ay for children. Included are cards with all the letters of the alphabet and the ay 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 focuses on capital letters and full stops. It has been made to be used as an intervention task, requiring children to think about when they would use them and why before then applying this to sentences and their own previous work.

A mini-assessment activity that checks children's understanding of relative pronouns and relative clauses. This is useful to check what children have remembered/ learnt or as a little recap activity to then go through with children afterwards.

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 proper nouns sorting activity that has been created for Upper KS2 SEN but could be used as a normal activity in KS1. A simple sorting activity for proper nouns, focussing on names of people, places and days/ months.

A spelling mat that includes all the words from the 3/4 list and 5/6 list on one page. Useful to laminate and leave on tables for children to use so that they can ensure key words are spelt correctly, particularly in Year 6 with the writing framework.

These writing help mats have been made for Year 6 in mind but can easily be used with other children. Simply print out the two pages and laminate them back to back to give children a work mat to help their writing and ensure they are addressing a number of the statements required for end of Key Stage writing assessments. Included are: The spelling word list for Year 5/6 Help for when to use paragraphs Prepositions Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions Modal and passive verbs Cohesive devices Punctuating Speech Some areas of punctuation

A mini biography/ fact file that introduces Rosa Parks life for KS2 children.

A mini biography/ fact file that introduces Barack Obama's life for KS2 children.

A worksheet that provides some tasks that work on tenses. The first activity requires children to sort words into whether they are past tense or present tense before completing a challenge question linked to read and read. This is then followed up with an activity that requires children to change the tense in the sentence so that it is correct before completing a challenge question. An answer sheet is also included.

A poster/ help sheet for children that looks at the six key relative pronouns and when and how they should be used.

Eight lessons worth of resources for reading comprehension linked to the book Skellig. Included are a range of different skills, including inference, retrieval and vocabulary as well as work on the front cover and back cover to support making predictions about the book. Within the booklet are two different short extracts from the story with the following activities linking to that extract before the new one is introduced. (Any blank pages are for printing it as a booklet that is 2-sided)

A word mat/ poster of generalisers and how they can be used in sentences to help with writing in information texts to help children who may struggle for ideas.

A set of pictures that can be used as writing prompts for independent or engaging writing in KS2 English lessons.

A set of pictures that can be used as writing prompts for independent or engaging writing in KS2 English lessons.

Example grids that children can use for each of their main paragraphs when writing an information text, ticking off the key features for each paragraph as they go/ checking they have more than one of some things. These can be used with one per paragraph to check each paragraph meets the criteria.

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

A simple reading comprehension activity that also focuses on the -oa- phoneme.

A fact file/ knowledge organiser that can be stuck in children's books when doing the newspaper genre in writing or for a help sheet if they are writing a newspaper article in a foundation subject. Included on the sheet is a list of key vocabulary, a labelled image of a newspaper story and a reminder about the key facts to include in any newspaper article.