A page of blank cards that can be cut out, laminated and written on with whiteboard marker. Coloured green to match VCOP colouring for conjunctions. I use these as visual prompts on all my working walls.

Designed for children in Year Six to assess the contents of their own independent writing with ticks or dates. Handy for allowing children to recognise their own areas for development.

A challenge based worksheet aimed at securing a child’s knowledge of Time Adverbials. Activities include using given time adverbials in sentences, varying the position of the adverbials (to help meet the goals of the KS2 Interim Assessment Framework 2016/2017/2018), using time adverbials within a paragraph and using time adverbials in a set of instructions.

Two diary entries based on the same event (visiting the new school wildlife/garden area) One is basically written with very little attempt at adding detail, high-level punctuation and complex sentences. The other is of end of KS2 Standard. I used this activity to get the children to realize that as teachers, we see pieces of text about the same event but the quality of the texts varies drastically. Which would they rather be writing? Which would I rather be reading? Why? Explain why one is better than the other. Files are uploaded as Publisher, PDF and Word.

A worksheet for children to practice using and identifying expanded noun phrases. The worksheet is divided into four challenges. The third challenge mimics the style of the expanded noun phrases questions found on the 2016 GPS Sample and official SATs assessment.

Four different newspaper reports based on the 1969 Moon Landing. Excellent for analysis of texts from around the world and for research purposes.

A worksheet aimed at Years 5-7 to secure their knowledge of passive verbs, Activities include identifying passive verbs, using passive verbs in sentences, converting the active voice into the passive voice and using multiple passive verbs in a single paragraph. Takes children through a progression to mastery, all on one sheet. Easy to understand and easy to mark.

A very simple to use tracking grid that can be passed up with cohorts. All a teacher/LSA needs to do is put in the short date of when a child moved on to the next level/box. Features approximate tracking of: Target Tracker Band Read, Write, Inc group Old curriculum book bands Can track as many or as few children as desired

A challenge based worksheet aimed at Year 5-7 children to secure their understanding of colons and semi-colons. Challenges include choosing the correct form of punctuation to use in a list, inserting colons and semi-colons to demarcate independent clauses (Interim 2016/2017/2018 Greater Depth statement), explaining whether a sentence has been correctly punctuated and using colons and semi-colons in precise, directed ways. Completion of this worksheet would indicate mastery, but it is aimed as a jumping on point for age appropriate children. I have also included an answer sheet with explanations to aid with marking.

A worksheet aimed at Years 5-7 to secure their knowledge of passive verbs. Activities include identifying passive verbs, using passive verbs in sentences, converting the active voice into the passive voice and using multiple passive verbs in a single paragraph, all within Victorian-themed sentences Takes children through a progression to mastery, all on one sheet. Easy to understand and easy to mark.

64 questions. Orange Cards - Questions with a choice. Blue Cards = Word classes. Cards cover: Nouns, Verbs, Modal Verbs, Active, Passive, Past Progressive, Present Progressive, Main clauses, subordinate clauses, possessive apostrophes, omissive apostrophes. Perfect for revision.

This is a two page document about Myths, Legends and Folk Tales, covering the difference between the three and definitions of what each are. Excellent as an activity to get children to summarise the three different types of story or good as reading comprehension.

This resource pack includes a everything you need for the children to have a go at writing a high-level Newspaper. Included is: - An example modeled newspaper article, complete with headline, text, pictures, advertisement and Year Six standard Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (in pdf and .doc format) - A blank template. I've set this so that the text automatically flows into the other text boxes as children write more. This will save a lot of teacher time in lessons. Helpful to allow a bit more independence! Please give feedback or rate this resource. I also take requests.

A perfect way to inject a bit of life into a creative writing planning session! This resource includes two high quality examples of a ‘Speech’ story opening, an ‘Action’ story opening and a ‘Description’ story opening that are intended to be printed double-sided and laminated. The language and punctuation used will reinforce strong writing in Year Five and Six. Possible activities - - Discuss which of the three opening types each card belongs to. - Put them face down on a table and flip them over to quickly analyse the opening type. - Improve the card. Suggest improvement or redraft sections to be more exciting or descriptive.

This teaching PowerPoint is made up of 45 slides. It is useful for children to practise identifying and correcting mistakes in writing so that they can apply their learning to their own independent writing. This resource has teaching slides and answer slides. Activities include: Grammatical errors (sentences) Grammatical errors (paragraphs) Punctuation errors (sentences) Punctuation errors (paragraphs) Spelling errors (sentences) Spelling errors (paragraphs) Mixed practice

Having trouble finding high-quality examples of Year 5 and 6 texts for children to analyse and aspire to? So did I! These texts were shared-written with my class over the course of a year and contain all of the grammatical features a Year 5 or 6 child is expected to have in their writing - including the Greater Depth statements. Examples of features include: Modal and Passive verbs Expanded Noun Phrases Prepositional Phrases The subjunctive Colons and Semi-colons between independent clauses Brackets, Dashes and Commas for Parenthesis Punctuating direct and indirect speech These texts were written to engage a reader and I’m confident they’ll engage your class. The 15 texts include: A biography of Michael Faraday A biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel A Victorian short narrative A spy short narrative An information text about Volcanoes A description/explanation of a World War spy gadget Three dramatic recounts A newspaper article A dragon-themed factfile A non-chronological report of a fictitious creature

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Included: • Comprehension questions for the first twelve chapters of the book. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment. Included: • SATs style comprehension questions for every chapter of the novel. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. Please view the sample pages for an idea of the questions and expectations. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.

This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features exciting sounds and drama. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409 There are 15 questions, testing children’s knowledge of: - The difference between adverbs, subordinating conjunctions and prepositions. - The subjunctive form/mood - The past and present progressive - Determiners - Punctuation - and more! Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas. All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate. N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment. Included: • SATs style comprehension questions for the first sixteen chapters of the novel. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. Please view the sample pages for an idea of the questions and expectations. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.