A homework worksheet to assess understanding and spelling of apostrophes for contraction.

A Powerpoint for teaching how and where to use commas in listed sentences.

A list of some of the different categories of proper nouns, with examples. Can be used as a prompt sheet on tables whilst children are writing or make bigger to go on the wall. Can also be adapted into an activity e.g. How many examples of proper nouns can you think of in this category in 1 minute? etc.

A series of sentences what can be shrunk to make a worksheet or printed to make a hunt/feely box game. Children have to read the sentences and work out which word/s are adjectives or whether the sentence has an adjectival phrase. Can be used as a sorting game and developed for children to think of sentences which adjectival phrases themselves.

A worksheet/hunt/oral game for identifying how many missing capitals there are in a sentence. Can be used in a number of ways. A separate answer sheet with how many capitals are missing for each sentence that children can use to self-check their work.

A list of different conjunctions and the category they come in. Can be made into a classroom display (I have mine on pieces of paper that are shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Covers time, location, summing up and comping and contrasting conjunctions.

A set of sentences containing lists for children to punctuate. Can be read aloud, printed off as card or shrunk to make a worksheet.

A set of sentences for children to punctuate involving using commas for lists. Can be read aloud, shrunk into a worksheet or made into a hunt/feely box game.

A set of sentences both simple and complex. Can be used as a sorting activity or to look at punctuation using commas. I have used it as both and then asked children to simplify the complex sentences and add a clause to the simple sentences to make them complex. Can be shrunk easily to make a worksheet or made into cards or used on an interactive whiteboard.

A set of sentences and labels for a die/spinner or can be used as a matching activity. Children to read the sentences and decide on a suitable possessive pronoun to go in the gap.

A set of sentences, phrases and clauses for children to sort. Can be read aloud, made into cards or shrunk to make a worksheet. Can also be used on an interactive whiteboard to teach the difference between a sentence, phrase and a clause.

A Powerpoint linked to recapping on proper nouns and then using that knowledge to up level and improve sentences about Queen Victoria for a biography. Teaches children to apply their knowledge. Sentences can be easily adapted to suit teaching proper nouns for any biography.

3 resources: a set of game rules, labels for dice or a spinner and a set of sentences which can be made into cards or read aloud. Children to identify which conjunction they would use to make the sentence make sense.

A set of sentences which can be used as a hunt, read aloud or made into a worksheet. Teaches children when subordinating conjunctions are used to start a sentence that a comma is needed in the sentence. Children have to mark where the comma should go.

A set of sentences with the wrong preposition used. can children spot what is wrong with the sentence and replace the incorrect preposition for on which makes sense? Good activity for teaching proof-reading skills as well as what prepositions do in sentences. Can be read aloud, shrunk to make a worksheet or printed and made into cards to be used as a hunt/feely box game.

A list of different nouns and proper nouns for the children to sort. Can be shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards or read aloud. The nouns cover a range of different types of proper nouns and can be used for discussion of which words need capital letters and why.

2 activities. One to spot the conjunction used in sentences and another to choose an appropriate conjunction to join two clauses.

A set of sentence with missing pronouns. Also a set of pronouns. Can be used as a spinner, dice or feely box matching game and extended by allowing the children to choose more than one suitable pronoun to go into the gap in the sentence.

A long Powerpoint which teaches what pronouns are and how to use them correctly in sentences. Also teaches which ones can be used for one person and which for more than one. With some questions for children to answer on whiteboards or orally where children have to spot the pronoun and choose an appropriate pronoun for sentences.

Lots of adjective cards, which can be used in a number of ways. I have used these to teach children to apply the spelling rules of turning adjectives into adverbs. Can be made into cards or shrunk to make a worksheet. Can be broken into sets to teach spelling rules individually.