Test the children's punctuation and grammar with 'The Cat Sat on the Mat'; or use it as a teaching tool. 50 slides all incorporating grammar and punctuation and of course 'a cat and a mat'. Click on the green rectangle to reveal. Includes the deep voice for added explanations :-); Great for teaching Grammar.

This came about because I used to tell children that they had crashed 'the writing car'. This was when they had started well but finished badly. I remind them of it every now and again. It begins with them strapping on their punctuation seat belt'.

A unit of work covering a whole range of literacy activities centred around 'Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens: Playscripts, Diaries, Viewpoints, Biography, Narrative. Goes really well with the movie. Enjoy! :->

Words taken from the Y5 and Y6 New National Curriculum. Sound added to help with learning letter patterns. Should help with spelling part of SPaG test.

Contains several different explanation texts all with speech. What it is? What it consists of? How it works? Other types. ...

Over 40 slides giving an explanation of similes, metaphors and personification followed by poems that use imagery. Includes poetry ideas and templates that can be used by children to create their own poems. Poems have added audio to allow them to be read out from the board.

A selection of newspaper stories on different themes. A few have have been broken down into sections to help with teaching them. Includes voice. Apologies for humour in the stories!

A poem to teach the word meanings of grammar. Get them on their feet reciting and chanting :-> Voice included to help with teaching the rhythm. Common nouns are all around, just go and take a look, a table, chair, a coat, a bag, or empty writing book.

Lots of sentence openers which can be used to practise sentence building. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt; all on the theme of space. Sound is added to each page to help the children get the rhythm of the sentence. Adjectives, Verb Starter, Adverb verb starter, Time – slow time, Time – fast time, 3 for Description, 3 for Action, Preposition Starter, Noun starters, Adjective Starters, Double Adverb, Subordinate Clause, Having done something, With its, soon, easily, Although, As, Unless, The more, the more, Rather than, Despite, Whenever, Verb, Simile, Personification, On, …, Whereas, Point, Evidence, Explain

The Y5 and Y6 spellings taken from the ‘strange word list’ of the 2014 new national curriculum literacy. I’ve added definitions and sound to help with understanding. No doubt they’ll test them on these in the SPaG test.

A very simple sentence builder based around 'Jake and the Neverland Pirates&'. Suitable for younger children.

Starts of with simple sentences and builds up to more complex sentences. All based around the children's morning routines so they don&'t have to think too hard ...includes voice.

Lots of sentence openers which children can listen to. Great for practising how a sentence sounds or to revise them once learnt. Slightly easier than Toys and Boats. (see TES) Animals is just the theme it was based on and is not important apart from being relevant to the children. Apologies for the voice!

A series of slides and printouts to accompany the replay animation. (available on various sites). Included in the pack are printouts that the children can write the narrative on to accompany the story. These can be recorded at the end for dramatic effect.