This resource introduces how to use hyphens correctly in numbers and with prefixes before supporting the children to create examples of their own. The challenge activities then really test their understanding by ensuring they can explain which sentences have used hyphens correctly before asking them to explain how hyphens can change the meaning of a sentence and the importance of using them correctly to avoid ambiguity.

This lesson combines the children’s knowledge of using coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns in order to create multi-clause sentences. At first, the children are challenged to identify and name the type of conjunctions in sentences before moving on to recognising main and subordinate clauses in two clause sentences initially, building to 3-4 clause sentences.

This resource supports the children to extend simple sentences by adding adjectival and adverbial prepositional phrases. This puts the focus on the different jobs of prepositional phrases which then helps the children to recognise them within sentences. They learn that prepositions come at the start of these phrases. The challenge then extends the children’s understanding by looking at words that can act as a preposition or conjunction within a sentence depending on whether they are used as part of a phrase or clause.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which ensures the children are secure with singular and plural subjects before introducing them to 1st, 2nd and 3rd person. The resource then encourages the children to apply these skills by identifying singular, 3rd person subjects that will need an ‘s’ adding to the verb to maintain subject-verb agreement. It also asks the children to suggest subjects that will match the verb as well as looking at their ability to apply spelling rules when adding ‘s’ to a verb. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that introduces some of the more complicated rules for maintaining the subject - verb agreement.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which ensures the children can maintain subject - verb agreement with ‘was’ and ‘were’ before looking at spelling rules for adding ‘ing’. It then teaches them how to write in the past progressive before learning some of the scenarios where they might apply it in their writing. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that ensures they recognise when to use the progressive tense and when to just use the simple past.

This resource includes a teacher Notebook which introduces the different types of determiner through active tasks that the children will enjoy. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that will help to assess their level of understanding as well as ensure that they are secure in the difference between a determiner and a pronoun as the overlap can be confusing for some children.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which introduces the fact that some words can belong to different word classes depending on how they are used in a sentence. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that will help to assess their level of understanding as well as ensure that they are secure in the subject - verb - object structure of a sentence and how they can use this to determine whether a word is acting as a verb or a noun.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook resource to introduce the different types of noun to the children - common, proper, abstract and collective - as well as a series of independent student tasks. There is also a challenge task at the end to help assess the student’s level of understanding. The resource could be easily adapted to be used across KS2.

This resource includes a teacher Notebook which introduces the subject and object pronouns, as well as possessive pronouns, through active tasks that the children will enjoy. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that will help to assess their level of understanding as well as promote the importance of using pronouns effectively in their writing to avoid repetition and create links within and across their sentences .

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which revisits using commas and semi colons in complex lists. It then goes on to explain how lists can be introduced with a main clause so that a colon can be used too. It then looks at how bullet points should be punctuated according to whether the items in the list are clauses or phrases. There is a challenge activity where the children need to mark and provide feedback on lists with bullet points which will help to assess their understanding.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which introduces using commas between adjectives in extended noun phrases before looking at examples where two or more adjectives are acting together as one, and ensuring the children understand that these need a hyphen between them to connect them together rather than a comma. There is an independent work sheet for the children to put their knowledge into practice as well as providing an opportunity to revise different word classes. There is also a challenge activity that asks the children to identify how hyphens can help to avoid ambiguity in sentences when they are writing.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which introduces the fact that adjectives modify nouns whereas adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. It then goes on to introduce the fact that some words can act as both an adjective and an adverb depending on the word they are modifying in the sentence. The children are given the opportunity to write their own sentences applying this knowledge before taking part in a challenge activity to see whether they can identify whether words are functioning as adjectives or adverbs.

This resource introduces relative pronouns before looking at how they start a relative clause, which may be embedded within or come after the main clause. The challenge activity then introduces the children to the fact that relative clauses may be defining or non-defining and the impact that this has on comma use.

This resource introduces the fact that clauses have a subject doing a verb before looking at the difference between main and subordinate clauses. It then introduces phrases and helps the children distinguish them from the two types of clauses by focusing on their features. The challenge activity allows the children to mark and give feedback on some of the main misconceptions.

This resource introduces the fact that clauses have a subject doing a verb before looking at how the addition of a subordinating conjunction can turn a main clause into a subordinate clause. It then focuses on how subordinating clauses can come before, after or be embedded within a main clause and the impact this has on the punctuation within the sentence. The challenge then asks the children to add their own subordinate clause to main clauses, which relies on them being secure on the difference between a phrase and a clause.

This resource introduces how to embed parenthesis within a main clause and how to punctuate it with commas, dashes or brackets. It then looks at when parenthesis comes at the end of a sentence and how it needs to be punctuated differently depending on whether you choose to use commas/dashes or brackets. Challenge then looks at choosing the most appropriate punctuation to mark the parenthesis depending on the formality of the writing and the punctuation that is already evident within the sentence in order to avoid confusion.

This resource initially guides the children in how to correctly punctuate direct speech. It then moves into converting reported speech into direct and takes the children through the steps of changing pronouns and determiners to 1st person and changing the tense to present tense verb forms as well as how questions may affect the word order. The challenge then offers an opportunity to consolidate their learning by converting all the reported speech in a passage to direct, and introducing new speaker, new line.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which ensures the children are secure with singular and plural subjects before introducing ‘am’, ‘is’ and ‘are’ as singular and plural verbs. The resource includes noun and pronoun subject led sentences as well as sentences where the subject comes after the verb. There is also an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that introduces some of the more complicated rules for maintaining the subject - verb agreement.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which introduces writing extended noun phrases using adjectives before introducing adjectival prepositional phrases as a way of varying sentence structures by modifying after the noun. Children are taught to use a combination of strategies to avoid over using the determiner - adjective(s) - noun structure. Focus then moves on to introducing the range of prepositions that can start these phrases, and ensuring the children can both use them and recognise them within sentences. There is an independent challenge sheet that will help to assess the children’s level of understanding as well as promote the importance of using a range of prepositional phrases in their writing.

This resource includes a comprehensive teacher Notebook which ensures the children are secure with singular and plural subjects and can identify which person a subject is before introducing ‘have’ and ‘has’ as present tense verbs and how to use ‘has’ for singular 3rd person subjects and ‘have’ for all others. It also explores contracting ‘have’ and ‘has’ with the subject. There is an independent task sheet for the children to put their learning into practice and a challenge activity that introduces some of the more complicated rules for maintaining the subject - verb agreement.