A fun and engaging space-themed booklet - designed to help students practice their key spelling, grammar and punctuation skills. This 30 page booklet contains activities and tasks covering:
word classes
prefixes / suffixes
plurals
verb tenses
capital letters
speech marks
high frequency words
proofreading
comprehension
end/ beginning sounds
synonyms/ antonyms
and more!
This document can be used as a booklet or printed off as individual worksheets. Perfect for whole class use, SEND/EAL/Lower ability interventions, homework, home learning and more.
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Fifty-one multiple choice questions and one writing task designed to give you valuable insights into your students’ language abilities.
This test covers a range of topics including:
Basic Language Skills: This section assesses the students’ knowledge of the English language by testing their understanding of the alphabet, adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, and connectives.
Sentence Structure Identification: This section tests the students’ ability to identify different types of sentences, including simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Noun Types and Modifiers: This section tests the students’ ability to identify collective nouns, plural nouns, fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, concrete nouns, and abstract nouns.
Figurative Language
This section tests the student’s understanding of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, oxymorons, descriptive language, sensory details, alliteration, and assonance.
Punctuation Usage: This section tests the students’ knowledge of common punctuation symbols, such as full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, quotation marks, and apostrophes.
Creative Writing Techniques: This section assesses the students’ ability to structure and organise their creative writing, as well as their ability to use different writing techniques to capture the reader’s attention.
Reading Comprehension
This section of the test helps you assess a student’s reading comprehension abilities. It can also help you to identify if your students may need additional support or instruction in this area. Additionally, this exercise can help you to gauge how well your students are able to extract and comprehend information from written material, which is an essential skill in many academic areas.
Creative Writing
This section is designed to help you assess your student’s ability to communicate their ideas in a clear and organised manner, their ability to engage and maintain the interest of the reader, and their ability to use appropriate grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. This information can help the you tailor your instruction to meet the needs of individual students and to help them improve their writing skills.
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Not only will this test help you identify areas where your students need additional support, but it also comes with a mark scheme that includes low, mid, and high-ability example answers for the writing section. This makes it easy for you to quickly evaluate your students’ work and track their progress over time.
Each slide in this PowerPoint focuses on a different grammatical element. There is a section explaining the rules of the grammatical element to the student and another section with a task that allows the student to practise the usage. These slides can be slotted in to any PowerPoint as a starter task, used as an extension task, used as targeted feedback when marking or as extra revision for students. Or, they could be printed out and given to students as a SPaG booklet to work through. The aim being to improve students’ AO2, AO5 and AO6 skills.
Elements covered:
Adjectives
Adverbials
Apostrophes
Clauses
Colons
Commas
Complex Sentences
Compound Sentences
Coordinating Conjunctions
Discourse Markers
Modal Verbs
Nouns
Parenthesis
Past Tense
Perfect Tense
Prepositions
Present Tense
Pronouns
Relative Clauses
Semi Colons
Sentence Starters
Simple Sentences
Speech Marks
Subject Verb Object
Subordinate Clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Verbs
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Bright, clear and child-friendly display posters to support the teaching of punctuation in Key Stage 2. This resource includes individual posters for a wide range of punctuation marks:
Full stops
Commas
Finger spaces
Dashes
Question marks
Brackets
Apostrophes
Ellipses
Semi-colons
Colons
Inverted commas
Exclamation marks
Hyphens
Capital letters
Perfect for English working walls, grammar displays or punctuation reference points during writing lessons. The simple design makes each poster easy for pupils to see and use as a visual reminder when drafting and editing their writing.
These posters can be used for:
Displaying on classroom walls
Adding to table toolkits for writing support
Revising punctuation in grammar lessons
Encouraging independence in written work
I wrote this based on the sample materials that have been published. It is the same format, with the same number of questions as the new Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation SATs test and should be done in 45 minutes. Hope it is helpful
Enough starters to last you 18 months!
I’m an English teacher of 20 years and I have created…
80 PowerPoint slides, one activity per slide. These are all writing activities:
word classes, punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, connectives, tenses, imagery, descriptive writing techniques, devices, language devices, similes, metaphors, personification, adverbs, adjectives, word classes, nouns, sentence structure, speech, paragraphs, verbs…
Perfect for KS3 year 7, year 8 and year 9. Or KS4 low to mid ability/SEN/Special needs. Dyslexic students will find the instructions clear and the design non-stressful. ADHD students will like the variety of activities and the change of task on each slide as will non SEN students. You could always print the slide for a child with writing difficulties and they can work on the slide.
I’ve used lots of pictures stimuli as per the GCSE exam and have included:
Minecraft, Barbie movie, Fortnight / fortnite, Pokemon and modern student interests. All the skills included build towards KS3 English Launguage writing and towards the GCSE English Language exam. All examboards are covered.
A nice idea would be to print off 4 or 5 activities; put one on a different table/stations and put the kids into groups of 5 and spend 10 minutes on each station; make a whole lesson out of it! Literacy groups could use them as a whole main activity, slides could be printed two to a page and given as hard copies to very low ability kids that struggle to write, this would help them keep up and understand the concept more, then you could stick them in their books. The rest of the class can copy from the board.
The slides could be printed off and turned into a writing homework booklet as everything in the powerpoint is relevant to the UK GCSEs AQA, Pearson, the other boards and the functional skills exams level 1 and 2.
Year 6 teachers, are you tired of drilling practice papers? Ditch the photocopier and bring grammar revision to life with The Unfair Game: Punctuation Edition a thrilling, high-energy way to prepare for Year 6 Grammar SATs Paper 1.
This brand-new edition focuses on punctuation, ensuring your students have opportunities to practise the punctuation skills needed at KS2, including:
• Full stops, commas and question marks
• Exclamation marks
• Apostrophes for possession and contraction
• Inverted commas
• Commas in lists and to clarify meaning
• Colons, semi-colons and dashes
• Hyphens
Questions are SATs-style, inspired by the 2023 and 2024 papers, so your students are revising exactly what they need in an engaging, strategic format.
Why Choose The Unfair Game?
Unpredictable Point Values: Each question has a hidden score – but will it be positive or negative? Players only find out after answering!
High-Stakes Strategy: Answer correctly, then make a tough call – keep the points or pass them on? You must decide before knowing the value!
Full Engagement: With fast-paced, competitive gameplay, this is SATs revision disguised as fun! Your class will be buzzing with excitement as they strategise, collaborate, and apply their grammar knowledge.
Perfect for SATs Prep: Say goodbye to revision fatigue! The Unfair Game keeps students motivated, focused and actively learning key grammar concepts right up to SATs week.
If you are ready to liven up your SATs grammar revision, choose The Unfair Game: Punctuation Edition. It makes SPAG practice engaging, exciting and – most importantly – unfair!
Download now and let the games begin!
A second worksheet in the series, designed to further develop students’ punctuation accuracy and confidence.
This resource builds on core skills and introduces more varied and challenging tasks, including:
Adding full stops, question marks and exclamation marks
A comma check activity to reinforce correct usage
Using semicolons and colons effectively
Applying brackets, dashes and parenthesis
Practising apostrophes for possession
Accurately punctuating direct speech with quotation marks
Editing a longer paragraph containing multiple punctuation errors
The worksheet also features:
A ‘Top Tips’ section for proofreading strategies
A ‘Remember’ box summarising key punctuation rules
A challenge activity encouraging independent sentence writing
Ideal for:
GCSE English Language preparation
KS3–KS4 grammar and writing support
Targeted intervention sessions
Independent practice or homework
Complete Punctuation and SPaG scheme of work for Key Stage 3 and GCSE. It’s time to win the battle against poor grammar and punctuation once and for all!
Complete unit of work which will allow your students to master advanced punctuation as well as engage with a range of exciting creative writing tasks. If you are anything like me, explicit teaching/reminding of how to properly apply punctuation is ESSENTIAL for all ability ranges, especially with the new specification GCSE placing so much emphasis on AO6.
These lessons are certainly geared more towards KS3 and KS4 students. Powerpoints are light hearted and fun, with plenty of images/colour and silly jokes to keep your students engaged and entertained. I’ve found these lessons serve as an excellent ‘crash course’ in punctuation either at the beginning of the academic year or in the run up to the GCSE exams. Below is a list of contents:
Commas (£2 if purchased on its own) -
Commas powerpoint lessons
Commas in a list worksheet
Commas in a complex sentences worksheet
Colons (£2 if purchased on its own) -
Colon powerpoint lessons
Mastering colons worksheet
Semi-Colons (£2 if purchased on its own)-
Semi-colon lesson powerpoints
Semi-colon worksheets (x2)
Semi-colon writing success criteria worksheet
Speech- (£2 if purchased on its own)
Speech powerpoint lessons
Speech worksheet
Speech mixed practice worksheet
Writing success criteria worksheet
Editing and proof reading - (£3 if purchased on its own)
Editing and proof reading mini scheme powerpoint (nearly 50 slides)
Editing and proof reading worksheets (£2 if purchased separately)
A wide range of proof reading worksheets that you can use to consolidate and improve your student’s SPaG and proof reading abilities after you have finished the unit of work.
This unit would suit a range of abilities as there is lots of scope for stretch and challenge, with ambitious success criteria and extension tasks built in throughout. Scaffolding and differentiation options are built in where appropriate.
Fully resourced and ready to roll, minimal adaptation or tweaking required.
This is obviously a SPaG/Punctuation scheme of work, but it is equally focused on creative/descriptive writing too. Much of the content is therefore ideal for teaching general creative writing skills or preparing for the fiction writing task on the new specification (9-1) GCSE English Language exam.
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A set of 25 clear, colourful grammar and punctuation display cards for Year 5 and Year 6. Perfect for SPaG working walls, grammar displays, SATs revision and writing lessons.
A set of 25 clear and simple grammar and punctuation display cards designed for Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and Year 6) classrooms.
These printable posters introduce and explain key KS2 grammar terminology with concise definitions and examples, making them ideal for working walls, writing displays, and SPaG revision.
Each card focuses on one grammatical concept, helping pupils quickly understand and remember key terms used in the KS2 national curriculum and SPaG tests.
Included Grammar and Punctuation Concepts
Word Classes
Nouns
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Adjectives
Determiners
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Grammar Structures
Expanded noun phrases
Fronted adverbials
Relative clauses
Relative pronouns
Modal verbs
Sentence Structures
Active voice
Passive voice
Past progressive tense
Subjunctive form
Punctuation
Commas
Apostrophes (contractions and possession)
Colons
Semi-colons
Hyphens
Parenthesis (dashes, brackets and commas)
Perfect For
UKS2 working walls
Grammar reference displays
Writing lessons
Editing and proofreading tasks
SPaG revision and SATs preparation
The cards give pupils a clear visual reference to key grammar terminology, helping them apply these features confidently in their own writing.
Key skills for KS2 and KS3 - even KS4 if needed.
Apostrophes, articles, commas, capital letters, compound sentences. complex sentences, exclamation marks, full stops, main and subordinate clause, modal verbs, prepositions, questions marks, speech marks, subject and object.
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Dyslexia Friendly
1 What is included: Apostrophes
12 Slide Dyslexia Friendly Power Point with link to BBC Bitesize clip
5 Activity sheets, Dyslexia Friendly to STRENGTHEN and CHECK if they understand the conventions of apostrophes, these worksheets will perform a quick check of students knowledge.
These can either be used individually as an extension activities or as a homework booklet.
2 What is included: Basic Grammar
A 14 slide colourful interactive power point, children can work in pairs or small groups
Revision of basic grammar, sentencing and descriptive language, it allows the teacher to see any holes in learning
A worksheet to practice knowledge -can be peer marked
A colourful handout poster for students to stick in books.
3 What is included: Grammar Stretch and Challenge
A brilliant 15 page work pack containing six exercises of general punctuation, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives for my GCSE English language revision class. I found that getting close to GCSE’s my students sometimes forgot basic punctuation.
The work pack is easy to use and has a definition with examples and then exercises to be completed. (Answers are included)
4 What is included: Punctuation
A Dysleixa friendly, colourful, fun interactive 19 slide power point with links to BBCbitesize
3 Activities to complete on the PP
2 Worksheets
Answers included
This resource contains a quiz/revision resource on KS2 SATS English - spelling punctuation and grammar. It can be used as a quiz or as a revision resource.
The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the question image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is included to record answers.
The quiz includes SATS style questions on:
grammatical terms, word/classes - nouns, verbs, adjectives, coordinating and subjunctive conjunctions, pronouns possessive, relative, adverbs, adverbials, prepositions, determiners, subject and object, verb tenses, modal verbs, present and past progressive,passive and active, clauses - main, fronted adverbials, subordinate, relational, punctuation - full stops, commas in lists, commas to clarify meaning, question marks, exclamation marks, inverted commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, capital letters, hyphens, direct speech, brackets, determiners, articles - definite and indefinite, function of sentences - declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences (statement, question, command, exclamation), vocabulary -synonyms and antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, spelling - homophones and plurals.
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This powerpoint dedicates each slide to a different area of the punctuation and grammar SATs test. It is highly useful when revising the concepts the children must know for the test in an engaging way. All slides followed by an answer slide!
The powerpoint covers:
Phrases (adverbial, prepositional & noun)
Prepositions
Co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Main & subordinate clauses
Relative clauses
Modal verbs
Determiners
Prefixes and suffixes
Root words
Subject-verb agreement
Pronouns
Active & passive voice
Synonyms & antonyms
Progressive tense
Perfect tense
Word classes
Hyphens
Colons, semi-colons and dashes
Apostrophe for contraction and possession
Over 60 Short daily sessions of grammar and punctuation.
Editable Powerpoint presentation.
Positive.
Children enjoy doing grammar and punctuation.
Commas
Contractions
Possessive apostrophes
Speech marks
Brackets
Dashes
Run-on sentences
Differentiation
This versatile worksheet is designed to strengthen students’ grammar and punctuation skills. Suitable for learners of all ages, it includes exercises on sentence structure, verb agreement, and punctuation use, with a focus on common pitfalls. Clear examples and practice tasks make it an excellent resource for building writing accuracy and confidence in both ESL and native-speaking students.