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Parts of Speech Triangles (puzzles)
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Parts of Speech Triangles (puzzles)

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Each set of mini triangles fits together to create one large triangle. This pack contains 3 sets. Fantastic for consolidating parts of speech knowledge. Use as: - Morning registration starters - Lesson starters - Plenaries - Intervention activities Perfect for Years 5 and 6, or as a challenge activity for Year 4. Top tip: These triangles work brilliantly in conjunction with our grammatical terminology game, Definition Bingo!
Rhyming Dominoes
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Rhyming Dominoes

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Play dominoes with a twist! Each number of dots has been replaced by a rhyme sound. Children must play by the usual dominoes rules but match rhyming words instead of dots. Includes the sounds air, ite, ell, ing, at, oh and in. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1
Piano Note Finder Snap
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Piano Note Finder Snap

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Match the musical notes on the piano to their letter names in this game of snap, aimed at young beginners. This game works best with two players. One take the letters and the other takes the piano images. Players must read the letter card and look at the piano image, using the pattern of the black notes to identify which note is highlighted. If the players’ cards match when placed, they can race to snap them! The download includes two versions; a single-sided set that you can print on thin card and a double-sided set that you can print on paper, then fold and laminate.
Synonym Snap
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Synonym Snap

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Keep your eyes on the cards with this fast paced synonyms themed game of snap. Includes easy and standard versions.
Unicorns Forever -  Time Signatures
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Unicorns Forever - Time Signatures

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Harness your unicorns and race them around the board in this magical time signature game. In Unicorns Forever, players are challenged to create matching sets of time signatures and bars using a variety of note and rest cards. The game uses the 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures. Note and rest lengths included are semibreves (whole notes), dotted minims (dotted half notes), minims (half notes), dotted crotchets (dotted quarter notes), crotchets (quarter notes), dotted quavers (dotted eighth notes), quavers (eighth notes) and semiquavers (sixteenth notes). The rhythms have all been made up to whole beats so each note/rest card adds up to one, two, three or four beats. Players move their unicorn one step around the board for each set they create. For the non-unicorn lovers of the world, the game can also be played with just the cards, seeing who can create the most sets in five or 10 minutes.
Musical Easter Eggstravaganza Pack
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Musical Easter Eggstravaganza Pack

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This Easter themed pack is aimed at beginner musicians working at pre-grade 1 to grade 1 music theory level. It includes: 14 page Easter activity booklet covering note letters and lengths, rest lengths, time signatures, bar lines, dynamics and tempo. This comes in UK and US versions, plus answer booklets. Easter Note Name Matching Cards Easter Scramble: An Easter board game featuring note letters and lengths, and rest lengths Easter Words and Notes Mat
Musical Four in a Row
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Musical Four in a Row

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Play Musical Four in a Row; it’s like the traditional game but has a special musical twist. The aim of the game is to get four counters in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). However, each spot has a musical note on it and players must name or find the note before they can place their counter. This pack contains 16 game boards, with two from each of the following categories: -Letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G -Letters C,D,E -Letters F,G,A,B -Bass clef G2-C4 -Bass clef five finger C3-G3 -Bass clef five finger F3-C4 -Treble clef C4-F5 -Treble clef five finger C4-G4 For the letter boards, players should find and play the note on the piano. For the musical notation boards in treble or bass clef, players can either play the note on the piano or say the letter name. This game is quick to play so can be easily included within a music lesson. Simply print the game boards and use either two colours of counters or felt tips/stickers in two colours.
Musical Words Matching Pairs - Treble and Bass Clef
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Musical Words Matching Pairs - Treble and Bass Clef

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This is a pictorial game of matching pairs with words spelled with on the stave using the letters A-G and corresponding image cards. It has been designed to give students further practice in identifying note pitches. There are 14 pairs with versions for the treble and bass clefs using the notes on the lines and spaces in a variety of rhythms. The game has two versions, either with colourful backs or with plain low-ink cards so you can choose the set that best suits your printing requirements. The cards have straight edges and have been carefully aligned so you can cut them out easily before either folding and laminating, or folding and gluing them.
Poetry Definitions Follow Me
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Poetry Definitions Follow Me

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Get your children thinking about poetry terminology with this definitions game. Distribute the 25 cards amongst the class or group. Each card has a question (E.g. Who has another word for verse?) and an answer (E.g. I have stanza). The questions and answers follow each other around the room as pupils work out where their card fits into the sequence. Definitions: acrostic, alliteration, assonance, ballad, couplet, free verse, haiku, half-rhyme, internal rhyme, kenning, limerick, metaphor, narrative poem, onomatopoeia, personification, rap, repetition, riddle, rhyme, rhyme pattern, shape poem, simile, sonnet, syllable, stanza The cards are given in order so the teacher can keep a full copy as the answer sheet while pupils receive the cut up cards randomly. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1
Musical Rest Value Snap
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Musical Rest Value Snap

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Improve your beginner music students’ rest value recognition skills with this game of musical snap. It includes the rests for: – Quavers/eighth notes – Crotchets/quarter notes – Minims/half notes – Dotted minims/dotted half notes – Semibreves/whole notes Each card contains a series of notes adding up to 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 beats. Players can snap any two identical cards or any two cards that add up to the same number of beats. Once they can play this game successfully, pupils will have a solid grounding in rest values and their equivalents. Rest Value Snap can be played as a quick 5 or 10-minute game during lessons or your pupils can spend longer playing it at home as part of their practice time. Encourage children to reinforce their knowledge by showing their sibling or parent how to play – they’ll love taking on the role of teacher. These cards can also be used as flashcards. Challenge your students to add the rest values on as many cards as they can in one minute. The pack includes two versions. Version one has a patterned back. Fold over each card and laminate it for a hardwearing copy that can be used in every lesson. Version two has no back so you can print it directly on to card. This game works well alongside Musical Note Value Snap: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/musical-note-value-snap-11784683
Musical Notes Snap for 5 finger piano
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Musical Notes Snap for 5 finger piano

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Improve your beginner pianists’ note recognition skills with this game of musical snap. It includes treble clef notes C4 to G4 (middle C position). There are two different sets for bass clef for students whose method book teaches them either G3 to C4 (middle C position), or C3 to G3 (finger five on the C below middle C) first. Ways to play: Bass clef only Treble clef only Both clefs together (both middle Cs count as a match) Musical Notes Snap can be played as a quick 5 or 10-minute game during lessons or your pupils can spend longer playing it at home as part of their practice time. Encourage children to reinforce their knowledge by showing their sibling or parent how to play - they’ll love taking on the role of teacher. These cards can also be used as flashcards with adults. The pack includes two versions. Version one has a patterned back. Fold over each card and laminate it for a hard-wearing copy that can be used in every lesson. Version two has no back so you can print it directly on to card.
Treble and Bass Clef Musical Note Word Searches
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Treble and Bass Clef Musical Note Word Searches

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Put your students’ note reading skills to the test with these fun Musical Note Word Searches. This pack contains 20 different word searches, each with four words to find. It features four 6×5 treble clef word searches, six 8×5 treble clef word searches, four 6×5 bass clef word searches and six 8×5 bass clef word searches. The words to find are given in normal English underneath the puzzle. Each word search square has a musical note on the stave (staff if you are in the US!). Pitch notation C4 to F5 in the treble clef and G2 to C4 in the bass clef. Students need to find the words in the grid. They are written in simple horizontal or vertical directions. An answer sheet is included. You can also purchase the treble and bass clef sets separately: Treble Clef Bass Clef
Synonym Happy Families
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Synonym Happy Families

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Synonym Happy Families encourages children to up-level the words they use in their writing by thinking of better alternatives. This game, which focuses on emotions, includes an easier version and the standard game that has been designed to increase pupils’ vocabulary. The aim of the game is to collect sets of emotion families. For example, the Happy family. In order to do so pupils must firstly identify the family and then collect the relevant cards from their opponents. Answer cards are included so the children can check their own sets during the game.
Proofreading Guide
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Proofreading Guide

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Give your students clear guidance on how to proofread with this easy-to-understand guide. It can be stuck into their books or attached to a keyring for easy reference. Included: - Quick accuracy checklist - Capital letters and end of sentence punctuation - Making simple sentences more interesting - Writing compound and complex sentences - Expanding your punctuation use
Definition Bingo! (Year 6 grammatical terms)
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Definition Bingo! (Year 6 grammatical terms)

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Encourage your children to remember key grammatical terms with our take on the classic game of Bingo! It includes the important terminology that pupils will need to succeed in the Year 6 SATs. Terms included: active, adjective, adverb, adverbial, ambiguity, antonym, apostrophe, bracket, bullet points, capital letter, clause, cohesion, colon, command, conjunction, dash, determiner, direct speech, ellipsis, full stop, hyphen, modal verb, noun, noun phrase, object, parenthesis, passive, past tense, plural, possessive pronoun, present tense, pronoun, prefix, preposition, relative clause, relative pronoun, semi-colon, singular, speech marks, subject, subordinate clause, suffix, synonym, question, vowel, word family. The pack contains 32 boards so there are enough for the whole class. Give definitions of a grammatical terms or ask a child to give a definition. Pupils with the matching grammatical term must cross it off and the first person to cross off all their terms wins.  To assess and reinforce understanding, ask a child to give the answer after each term has been described. Suitable for whole class or small group work.
Crash Landing – a space themed comprehension pack
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Crash Landing – a space themed comprehension pack

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A perfect accompaniment for those KS2 children studying space, Crash Landing is a five-part comprehension pack, which includes pre-reading questions as well as discussion and comprehension activities. Use either in your daily reading block or use it over a number of weeks to supplement work in English lessons.
Line Lord - Musical Note Recognition Game
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Line Lord - Musical Note Recognition Game

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Line Lord is a block based note recognition game that challenges players to work together to create the most completed lines on the board. Blocks of various shapes and sizes are randomly drawn, rotated to fit and placed on the grid of the game board. Each piece has a musical note on it and players must say the note’s letter name as they place the piece. Versions are included for: Treble clef lines and spaces Bass clef lines and spaces Alto clef lines and spaces Tenor clef lines and spaces Treble clef for five finger piano C4-G4 Bass clef for five finger piano F3-C4 Bass clef for five finger piano C4-G4 The pieces for more than one version can be combined if desired. There are 10 game boards to choose from; skyscraper, tree, rabbit, house and six patterns. Line Lord is played with a timer so you can select a length to fit your lesson perfectly. Five minutes is usually a good starting time.
Spelling Battleships
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Spelling Battleships

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Beat your opponent using this traditional pen and paper game. Use the words from the National Spelling Appendix to create your ships, and keep your fingers crossed that you can guess all of your opponent’s words and positions before they do. Word sets included with this download: Years 1 and 2 (8 sets) Years 3 and 4 (8 sets) Years 5 and 6 (9 sets)
The Gerbil’s Adventure Comprehension Pack
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The Gerbil’s Adventure Comprehension Pack

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This amusing tale, featuring Chika the gerbil, offers pupils the opportunity to enjoy a class story and develop their understanding through targeted questions. Specially written to enhance comprehension skills and put together in a handy PowerPoint format, it contains a story following the adventure of the young gerbil, who thinks he has found the ideal owner but ends up in a noisy Year 3 classroom! There is a new chapter for each lesson, along with discussion points and comprehension questions. It could be used in whole class settings, group interventions or with your children at home.