These challenge cards are very good as an opening or finishing task and, when laminated, can be used again and again. They include various aspects of literacy, including punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, dictionary skills, and other VCOP skills. There are 19 documents in total and the others, if you are interested, will have the same title with a different number. Most of the ideas are my own, but I have used some material from other TES users, just in a different format.

I used this as an assessment piece with Primary 3s and 4s. I had previously systematically taught how to put words into alphabetical order using the first, second, third and fourth letters of a word. This activity contains a combination of all 4 and a final challenge that will allow you to see who has got it!

These challenge cards are very good as an opening or finishing task and, when laminated, can be used again and again. They include various aspects of literacy, including punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, dictionary skills, and other VCOP skills. There are 19 documents in total and the others, if you are interested, will have the same title with a different number. Most of the ideas are my own, but I have used some material from other TES users, just in a different format. I have also included the template if you want to design your own.

This presentation contains images of various mosaic art. Not all pictures are from Roman times, however they were chosen to show the key characteristics of mosaic art.

I created this as an example piece of alliteration poetry. Children would ideally have learned about the technique of alliteration beforehand. They can analyse the poem to pick up on success criteria before going on to write one of their own, either on the same or a different topic.

Homework tasks designed to last up to 10 weeks. A selection of creative and research activities. Can be edited to suit your stage or class.

These challenge cards are very good as an opening or finishing task and, when laminated, can be used again and again. They include various aspects of literacy, including punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, dictionary skills, and other VCOP skills. There are 19 documents in total and the others, if you are interested, will have the same title with a different number. Most of the ideas are my own, but I have used some material from other TES users, just in a different format.

These challenge cards are very good as an opening or finishing task and, when laminated, can be used again and again. They include various aspects of literacy, including punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, dictionary skills, and other VCOP skills. There are 19 documents in total and the others, if you are interested, will have the same title with a different number. Most of the ideas are my own, but I have used some material from other TES users, just in a different format.

I used this to cover topic homework for the term. There are a variety of research and creative tasks which children always seem to enjoy completing. Should be editable so you can adapt for your setting.

These challenge cards are very good as an opening or finishing task and, when laminated, can be used again and again. They include various aspects of literacy, including punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, dictionary skills, and other VCOP skills. There are 19 documents in total and the others, if you are interested, will have the same title with a different number. Most of the ideas are my own, but I have used some material from other TES users, just in a different format.

My pupils loved these quick fill in the blanks tasks. I have made these up myself because I couldn't find any resources like this in school or online. This activity encourages children to improve a piece of writing by adding adjectives, adverbs and other interesting words. These could be simplified or extended depending on ability.

A compilation of general knowledge quiz questions, can be adapted to suit different stages.

Two excerpts from Roald Dahl texts - The Magic Finger and Matilda. These excerpts have been typed out without any full stops or capital letters. I have been encouraging children to read aloud to listen for where the full stops should go. This is a basic skill that so many children need to develop.

Children are required to rewrite the passage, which is an excerpt from The Demon Dentist by David Walliams, including the punctuation associated with speech marks. Children should: put inverted commas around what it being said; use a capital letter at the beginning of speech; separate speech and text using a comma (unless there is already ? or !); and they should take a new paragraph for a new speaker, when the text continues after speech, or where you would normally take a new paragraph.

An activity that requires children to follow directions around a haunted house, includes left and right turns and compass points. Can easily be adapted to suit other needs.

Testing knowledge of times tables with a Halloween theme. I have created this using the tables my class are currently focusing on but it can be easily adapted to suit other needs.

Having previously taught and discussed the technique of personification, this activity allows children to identify and highlight examples of personification in different types of texts.

This activity is very fiddly but contains words to match with their contractions e.g. do not with don't.

This resource allows children to create their own examples of personification using a variety of sentences.

This is a great simmering activity for pupils getting to grips with their times tables. It works best if you have a variety of numbered die and can be modified for addition and subtraction for younger pupils.

I used this in combination with another presentation obtained from TES. This allows children practice in using different why and when connectives in a variety of sentences.