An activity to encourage children to think and collect alternative words for imperative verbs of direction. Taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Leave a review

Get 15 sheets or the whole book via our TES shop 5 sheets with answers Nouns – to understand the difference between common and proper nouns. Nouns – to identify collective nouns. Noun Challenge – to identify abstract nouns. Noun – to work with singular and plural nouns. Nouns – to investigate how nouns are part of word families. Noun Phrases – to expand nouns into noun phrases. . Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 6 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Get the all 71 sheets via our TES shop 5 worksheets: Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order. Dictionary – to understand that a dictionary gives the meaning of words. Word Families – to recognise members of a word family. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Thesaurus – to use a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 3 Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination. Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules. Leave a review

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 5 Monsters links to Communication and Language and Expressive Art and Design All resources included. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites.

Based on a theme, LCP’s daily home learning plans are here to help give parents ideas for fun and engaging activities for their children. Each day includes a mixture of independent and working with adult activities and a timetable to help structure the day. It includes all resources and hyperlinks. Day 4 Transport includes links to Science, DT, Art, Writing, Reading and Maths. DISCLAIMER: Website addresses are provided in this resource in order to offer additional information sources for teachers. It is not unknown for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to place highly unsuitable materials on websites to which children might have access. It is essential that teachers check the content of websites before allowing pupils to have access to them. In addition, although we try to suggest reliable sources, websites and the individual pages within them can sometimes be removed or have their website addresses changed by their owners. LCP cannot be held responsible for other organisations’ websites which are removed or changed, nor for the content of such websites. Leave us a review

A worksheet to run alongside any publication of Beowulf. Prompts children to look at the meaning of the words found in the text. Leave a review

Promote book talk for all ages with this helpful worksheet. Leave a review

This sheet has been taken from UKS2 Literacy Resources File Encourages children to think about the Features of a Comedy. It links to You Can’t Bring That in Here by Robert Swindells. But activity can be used without this book and can link to any comedy. Dialogue: the repetition of ‘you can’t bring that in here’ which is then used by the gorilla at the end. – Vocabulary: funny similes, for example, ‘the sofa looked like a tatty boat afloat on a sea of can rings and screwed-up crisp packets’. – Action: Jimmy swapping a number of ‘normal’ animals, ending up with a talking gorilla. – Authorial voice: use of the third person makes the reader sympathise with Jimmy and ridicules Osbert.

Taken from Unit 1 UKS2 Literacy Resources File Horror stories have common features, such as: – a setting that is uncomfortable, creepy or scary. Often these are unusual places; – use of darkness and cold to unsettle the reader; – use descriptive words to create an atmosphere – appealing to all the reader’s senses; – create suspense through building up tension and sudden action; – suspense is built through long compound sentences and action is sudden and ‘jumpy’ conveyed through short, dramatic sentences; – dramatic endings and use of cliffhangers. - there will usually be a sinister, evil villain There is often an element of guesswork through clues given in the text. Who is bad – or carried out an evil deed – can be hidden and concludes with a moment of revelation; – include simplistic themes of right and wrong, and good over evil. This sheet is designed to prompt discussions on the features of a specific genre. Leave a review