A set of sentences with missing possessive apostrophes for both plural and singular possession. Also contains a sentence with the collective noun children to teach where to place the apostrophe when the noun is plural. Can easily be extended into children writing their own sentences or exploring other plural nouns. Sentences can be made into cards or shrunk easily to make a worksheet.
A set of sentences with either whose or who's missing for children to identify which homophone is correct. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards for a spinner/dice activity. Can also be used as a whole class activity form an interactive whiteboard.
A set of more unusual homophone pairs suitable for Year 5 and . Can be used in lots of different ways e.g. write a sentence to show the meaning, read a sentence aloud and the children to identify which of the pair is the correct card, homophone snap, choose a card from feely box and spell its homophone pair, look up the homophone meaning in a dictionary etc.
2 resources. One set of sentences with missing contractions, which can be used for children to choose a suitable contraction to fit in the gap. The second resource is a list of contracted words which can be used as spelling cards, put onto a spinner or dice to make a match it game with the sentences or be used to write the oner form of the contraction or fit the contraction into a sentence of the children's own choice.
A set of sentences for children to decide whether to use it's or its. Can be shrunk easily to make a worksheet or made into a hunt, feely box, dice or spinner game. No other punctuation is included so can be used to recap on basic punctuation too.
A paragraph for children to demarcate with appropriate punctuation and a correctly punctuated answer sheet on page 2, which can be used as a self-checking exercise. Useful for assessing which punctuation children can apply independently.
A set of simple sentences (with no punctuation included) for children to uplevel by adding a clause. Also useful for recapping basic punctuation as well as teaching children to focus on commas for subordination.
A set of sentences with all punctuation missing for children to revisit basic punctuation and focus on how to use commas in listed sentences for clarity. Can be used on an interactive whiteboard, shrunk to make a worksheet or made into a hunt/feel box activity.
A set of 10 sentences for the children to decide if the punctuation for speech has been correctly applied. Can be easily extended into an activity where children correct the punctuation in the incorrect sentences.
10 sentences for the children to punctuate correctly. No punctuation is included so children have to think about speech marks but also applying other punctuation they know. Can be printed out and made into a hunt/feely-box activity or used as a display.
A set of sentences with missing verbs or adverbs. Good for reinforcing the verb tense and making sure adverbs are appropriate for the type of sentence. 2 sets of sentences easier and harder and can be extended easily through questioning e.g. Can you think of more than one adverb or adjective that would be appropriate? can be made into a hunt/feely-box activity or shrunk to make a worksheet.
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.
A set of colour-coded sentences to teach statements, questions or commands. Can be used as a run-around game to run to the correct hoop to match the sentence type or change the colour-coding to make into a worksheet for children to identify the type of sentence. 25 sentences listed, including some questions that don't begin with question words and some polite commands, which don't start with imperative verbs.
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 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 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 which can be made into a worksheet, read aloud or used as a hunt/feely box activity. Sentences have a missing pronoun. Children can choose an appropriate pronoun to fit in the gap.
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.
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.