Metaphor acting is a great addition to your figurative language topic which will encourage your students to think about and use metaphors in their descriptive writing. This resource contains 20 game cards each with a different metaphor. How to play: Get a student to come to the front of the class and choose a game card at random. They must act out the metaphor for the rest of the class to guess. This game can also be done in small groups. On each card there are acting clues to help if needed. If the students are finding it difficult to guess you can give them part of the metaphor to help. Check out Similes Acting Game. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This is an outdoor scavenger hunt with a twist. Before finding each item they must first figure out the fun outdoor riddle. This resource contains both task cards with the nature riddles as well as an activity sheet containing all of the riddles. Once they’ve figured out the riddle they can write or draw the answer before heading off to find it in your outdoor area. After they’ve completed the riddle scavenger hunt they could have a go at creating their own nature riddles for their friends. Love Outdoor Learning? Check out our years worth of outdoor learning challenges here! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Your kids will love reading about the popular Youtuber ‘KSI’ with our fun reading comprehension! This is a basic text that goes through who KSI is, how he became famous, and what challenges he has faced… Once they’ve read the passage they will complete the differentiated comprehension questions. This no-prep close reading activity is perfect for both remote learning and classroom work. Included: 2 page Lego reading passage 2 x differentiated comprehension questions (1 page each) Extension questions Answer key This resource is perfect for both distance and classroom learning. Check out our Minecraft reading comprehension. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Homophones with Larry The Knight PowerPoint, games, and worksheets lesson makes for a fun way to teach these tricky words. This highly visual and interactive PowerPoint will keep your children engaged and thinking carefully about the homophone spellings. I find this PowerPoint works best if all the children have a whiteboard to record their answers. This means there can be no hogs or logs! Contents - Slides 1 – 4: Introduction - Slides 5 – 21: Game 1: Homophone or Not? Children must decided whether the word is a homophone or not. - Slides 22 – 35: Hunt The Homophone. Children must find the homophone using wrongly in the sentences. - Slide 36: Conclusion Check out some of our other grammar resources! Figurative Language PowerPoint and Quiz Literacy Games PowerPoint Sentence Fixers PowerPoint Activity Adjective Acting Game Figurative Language Acting Activity Flash Cards: Similes ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Children will get lost in their imagination and creativity with this fun and engaging story telling / writing activity. It is a great way to practise creating exciting stories, thinking carefully about describing characters and settings. The children must select one of each card (character, lives, problem, & solution) and base their stories around each of the cards. The children will absolutely love it! We have used this very successfully for a few days worth of lessons. The children spend the first lesson playing with the cards and enjoying telling stories. They then choose four cards, stick them in their books, and do a big write based on those cards they have chosen. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have! ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A set of 5 Christmas themed literacy games that your class will love as we head towards this festive season. This PowerPoint is perfect for fun starter activities, as quick brain breaks, or just for some Christmas literacy fun! This PowerPoint contains the following games: - Christmas Jokes and Riddles - Christmas Anagrams - The Alphabet Game - Class Debate - Picture ‘Odd One Out’ ------------------------ Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Thank you! Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

The pack is a great way to get your children outdoors learning and exploring lines of symmetry. There are different activities and worksheets that will get your children exploring the outdoors while thinking about and creating patterns and shapes with one and more lines of symmetry. We have aimed this pack at grades 3 – 5, however it can be used in most grades with different levels of support and outcomes. Contents: - 1 x Symmetry Collecting Worksheet - 1 x Stick Bugs Activity Task Card - 1 x Symmetry Hunt Worksheet - 9 x Natural Symmetry Task Cards We hope you enjoy these as much as we did! ------------------------ If you liked this resource please don't forget to give us feedback.

These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving! This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas: - Adjectives - Adverbs - Connectives - Punctuation - Sentence Openers - Writing Checklist This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too!

Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate. Poetry rhyming schemes: - Acrostic - Couplet - Quatrain (aaaa) - Quatrain (aabb) - Quatrain (abab) - Quatrain (abca)

Adjectives (Worksheets / Activities): Get your children practising their adjectives with this fun pack of differentiated worksheets / activities and they will be an adjective pro before you know it! Contents: - Adjectives Safari (highlight the adjectives) x 2 - Add The Adjective (cut and stick / fill the gap) x 2 - Adjective Surgery (fill the gap) x 2 - Describing Me x 1 - Invent An Animal x 2 - Scavenger Hunt (outdoor activity) x 2 - Sort The Mess (sorting adjectives from nouns) x 1 - Beat The Snake (board game) x 1 For more adjective related activities check out our store. We hope you enjoy!

This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. It contains 11 differentiated worksheets and activities that will help your children practice recognizing and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. Enjoy! Contents: 1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting) 2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and stick) 1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and stick) 2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written) 4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written) 1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs Answer Key Check out our store for more great adverbs resources, including our popular 'Acting Adverbs' game.

Contractions Bundle (Worksheets, Pair Cards, Activities, Display Posters): Our contraction pack is everything you could need to teach contractions all in one place. From differentiated worksheets to practical activities and displays, we have it all in this 54-page pack. We hope you enjoy teaching this unit as much as we did! For the individual resources please visit our store. Contents: 55 pages in total 1 x differentiated cut and stick activity 2 x differentiated worksheets 1 x board game 1 x set of pairs cards + activity ideas 6 x sets of contraction dominoes train Display resources

Adjectives (Pair Cards): Adjectives have never been so easy with our set of 4 adjective pair cards. Engage your children with our fun activities either individually, as a group, or as a class and they will be Adjective Pros before you know it! Check out our preview to see just how exciting you can make adjectives! Contents: - Opposites train - x1 (23 pairs) - Opposite pair cards pack x 1 (11 pairs) - Synonym pair cards pack x 1 (14 pairs) - Who am I? pairs pack x 1 (17 pairs)

This activity develops letter recognition and fine motor skills as your class complete task cards by making letters of the alphabet out of natural materials.Each card comes with visual aids to support learners. You can give out these cards and ask your class to create the suggested word using the natural material depicted in the card. You can also create your own activities using these cards. Contents: A – Z letter art cards

Perfect to be used as a literacy station, these fun animal puzzles are great for your early readers to practice their phonics, beginning to recognise and blend simple sounds. This pack contains 5 differentiated puzzles, however it can be further differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come! Contents: 5 x differentiated Tarsia puzzles Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you liked it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A sentence fixer PowerPoint activity designed to help those children who forget the simple sentence punctuation along with some commonly mixed up homophones. The Sentence Snake has stolen some punctuation / mixed up the spellings. The children must read the sentence and see if they can find all of the errors. It’s a great way to get your children editing their writing, learning to spot the common mistakes and improve their writing. Contents - Slides 1 – 10: Capital letters & full stops - Slides 11 – 21: Apostrophise - Slides 22 – 32: Homophones - Slides 33 – 39: Capital letters, full stops, question marks, & exclamation marks. ----------------------------------- Please don’t forget to rate this product and provide feedback to earn credits that you can use toward future purchases on TpT. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales! ----------------------------------- Enjoy!

This diary writing & research project is a great way to get your class learning about and having fun with first person narrative in the form of diary writing (recounts) in the outdoors. This differentiated resource has been used very successful with grades 2 – 5 (years 3 - 6). The children are to choose a min-beast and spend a few days finding, exploring, and researching their chosen mini-beast. They will then have great fun planning and writing a diary entry for their chosen mini-beast based around ‘a day in the life of’. Contents: - Teacher’s Guide - Mini-Beast Identification Sheet - 2 x differentiated drawing sheets - Instructions Sheet - Diary Extract Eample - 2 x differentiated research templates - 1 x Diary Writing Checklist - 1 x planning sheet - 2 x Differentiated writing checklists This resource is a great way to get the children exploring the outdoor while learning about a key writing style. ----------------------------------- Enjoy!

This activity is all about hugging trees! It’s perfect to encourage students to use adjectives in their descriptive writing as they use their senses (apart from sight and taste) to describe a tree as best as they can. Teaching Structure: Recap on what an adjective is. Put the students into pairs with one blindfolded. The partner which isn’t blindfolded will lead their blindfolded partner to a tree of their choice. The blindfolded students must think of adjectives to describe the tree using touch and smell. Their partner can record the adjectives they are thinking of on the activity sheet. After a couple of minutes the blindfolded partner is carefully taken back to the spot they started away from the tree and the blindfold is removed. They then must see if they can find the tree that they were just describing. - Swap the blindfold and repeat. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

It’s time for an adjective hunt! This activity will get your student thinking about adjectives for all letters of the alphabet in and around your outdoor space. Simply provide your students with the activity sheet and let them walk around your outdoor or indoor space and think of adjectives for each letter of the alphabet to describe items they can see. This activity is great to be used as an extension challenge for your early finishers. Check out our fun phonics word searches here! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Perfect to be used as a phonics station, these fun puzzles are great for your early readers to practice matching colors to their name. This FREE pack contains 1 puzzle, however it can be differentiated by students working in pairs or completing the puzzle with adult support. Be sure to laminate these puzzles so you can use them for years to come! Contents: 1 x Tarsia puzzle Check out our other Tarsia Puzzles for Early Years English Animal Phonics Math Dice Addition (1-15) Counting to 10 - Number Recognition