A set of sentences on a worksheet to reinforce how to use semi-colons in place of conjunctions. Can be used as a worksheet in class or a homework/assessment activity. Teaches children to recognise conjunctions and replace them with semi-colons when the 2 parts of the sentence are both main clauses.
A set of cards which can be used in lots of different ways. Can be cut up and made into cards to play snap. Can be made into a feely box game where children pick a card and write another homophone. Can be used as a game where children have to describe to each other what they word means and then their partner has to write the homophone etc.
A whiteboard introduction Powerpoint and activity for spotting modal verbs in sentences and recognising whether modal verbs show certainty or possibility.
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 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 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.