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 set of words which can be paired together with a hyphen to make a new word. Can be printed out to make a match up game or used on an interactive whiteboard to show the children one of the pair of words and get them to decide on a word which could pair with it to make a hyphenated word.
A set of sentences as a worksheet with missing hyphens. Can be used as a homework assessment or class GaPS lesson. Has an extension activity for compound adjectives and can be further extended by children thinking up other compound adjectives.
A powerpoint which focuses on using the common prefixes: re, mis, dis, un, im, in and anti. Starts by recapping what a prefix is. Includes slides where children are asked to choose a suitable prefix to make a new word and use dictionaries to look up what prefixes mean.
A Powerpoint to teach the rules for using apostrophes to show singular and plural possession. Complete with an activity on the end for the children to demarcate sentences to show singular and plural possession.
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.
An easier and harder hunt activity for teaching agreement between subjects and verbs. Covers using is/are/were/was and other common and less common subject verb combinations. Children have to choose the correct word from a pair to make the sentences grammatically correct.
A whiteboard introduction Powerpoint and activity for spotting modal verbs in sentences and recognising whether modal verbs show certainty or possibility.
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 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 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 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 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.