A Powerpoint with activities to be used as a whole class input on synonyms. Suitable for year 5 or 6.

A Powerpoint for introducing what a relative clause is. Suitable for year 5 and 6.

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 with prefixes missing and a set of labels which can be used on a spinner, dice or adapted and put into a feely-box or hoops. children to pick a sentence and then try and match the correct prefix missing form the sentence to make the sentence make sense.

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 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 set of sentences which ca be used in different ways. Can be used as a spinner game, where different types of punctuation are put on the spinner and children have to keep spinning until they have punctuated the sentence correctly. Or can be used as a game where children have to complete the missing punctuation and then run/bounce back to the teacher with their answer.

A powerpoint to revise different types of punctuation using past SATs GaPS questions.

A set of sentences that can be easily adapted to make a worksheet or can be used as a runaround game to teach how to use I or me correctly in a sentence. Could be used in a hall where children have to run to the correct side of the room or hoops to show I or me. Or answers can be removed and it can be used as an assessment worksheet. Can be easily extended by asking children to come up with their own similar sentences to show how I and me are used correctly.

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 set of singular nouns ending in y. Can be made into cards of shrunk into a worksheet. Useful for teaching children to apply the rule for pluralising nouns ending in consonant and y. Can also be used as a sorting activity for those where you would take off y and add ies and those where you would just add an s.

A powerpoint with activities for the children to complete as part of the lesson. Focusing on how brackets are used.

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 sentences with conjunctions. Children are to spot the conjunction and replace it with a semi colon. Useful for teaching main clauses and recognising conjunctions in sentences. Can be easily extended when children have the idea by asking them to think of other sentences with 2 main clauses.

A worksheet where children have to decide whether it is more appropriate to use a semi colon to separate the items in a listed sentence or whether a comma is needed.

A set of sentences where using colons to introduce a listed sentence and using semi colons to separate the items in a list would be appropriate.

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 set of sentences with missing hyphens. Can be printed out as cards or shrunk to make a worksheet. Other punctuation is taken out so it is also a useful activity to reinforce basic punctuation and can be used as a 'rewrite with the correct punctuation' type exercise.

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 for children to read and identify whether they are statements, questions or commands. Also the punctuation is missing, so it can be used as an assessment tool for children to rewrite the sentences with correct punctuation and identify the type of sentence. Include polite commands and commands which do not start with imperative verbs. Alongside this there are also sentences which are questions that don't start with question words. Can be easily shrunk to make a worksheet or made into cards.