Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Resourcefully has an ever growing range of primary teaching resources carefully created by us. Our resources are here to help you build amazing lessons for your pupils without starting from scratch.
Ten lessons containing teaching resources and PPTs on Anglo-Saxons, covering two enquiry questions. Aimed at Year 5 but suitable across Upper KS2.
**Enquiry Question One:Who were the Anglo-Saxons and how do we know about them?
**Enquiry Question 2: How did the Anglo-Saxons live and how have they influenced modern day Britain?
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A bundle of 35 resources aimed at Year 6 but suitable across Upper KS2. 35 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. This bundle is also ideal for SATs revision. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included
Resources for:
Correct and incorrect punctuation
Semi-colons and colons
Commas for clarity
Word types including determiners, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, hyphens, punctuation for parenthesis, inverted commas, modal verbs
Using a word as a noun and a verb
Noun phrases
Tense
Prefixes and suffixes and word meanings
Contractions.
Activities include identifying grammar within sentences, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences, matching meanings and improving sentences.
A PPT with top tips for learning and recalling times tables, as well as a times tables wheel for students use or display.
The PPT covers:
Times tables wheel, this shows the essential tables that a student needs to learn as times tables questions are commutative. If I know 2 x 3, I also know 3 x 2!
Silly rhymes for remembering times tables facts.
Pattern spotting in the 2, 6, 8 and 10 x tables.
Using your hands to work out the 9 x tables.
Worksheets, comic strips and short passages. Perfect for introducing inverted commas in Y3.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ activity sheet with a range of activities to allow children to add inverted commas, write direct speech with inverted commas and mark sentences. Answers included.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ passage, a short paragraph with direct speech for children to add inverted commas. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
‘Using Inverted Commas’ comic strip. A fun activity for children to turn a comic strip with speech bubbles into a short story, writing direct speech with inverted commas. Two versions available – comic strip with complete speech bubbles, blank speech bubbles for children to create their own version.
National Curriculum Links
Year 3 statutory content to be introduced – Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
Year 3 and 4 – using and punctuating direct speech
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 3 and 4, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems, a range of questions with and without exchanging and carrying.
PPT to introduce activity and allow students to practise. Activity sheets with 3 levels of differentiation, answers provided.
Addition and subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with up to 4 digit numbers.
Fun, Christmas themed crack the code activity! Aimed at Years 5 and 6, students need to solve addition and subtraction problems involving exchanging and carrying.
PPT to introduce activity and allow students to practise.
Activity sheets with 3 levels of differentiation, answers provided.
Addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Addition and subtraction with up to 6 digit numbers.
Ideal to teach modal verbs Upper KS2 when this objective is first introduced.
‘Modal verbs’ activity sheets with three levels of differentiation, includes a range of activities for children to identify how modal verbs are used within sentences.
‘Modal verbs’ passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation children to identify the modal verbs used within sentences.
‘Modal verbs’ display cards for your class display.
National Curriculum Links
Statutory content to be introduced in Year 5 – Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs [for example, might, should, will, must]
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
Differentiation
Modal verbs: should, would, will, may, can, could, might, must and shall.
Modal verbs: includes the above and wouldn’t, shouldn’t, won’t, can’t and mustn’t, in single and some multi-clause sentences.
Modal verbs: includes the above and ought to, in multi-clause sentences. Classifying the modal verbs into
positive and negative as well as by certainty and possibility.
Ideal when teaching how to add prefixes to verbs in Year 5 or consolidation in Year 6.
Matching cards for children to match prefixes to verbs, ideal for use in small groups or pairs.
Activity sheets for children to add a range of prefixes to create new verbs and understand their meanings. Prefixes: de, mis, dis, over and re.
National Curriculum
Year 5 Statutory content to be introduced: verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–].
Years 5 and 6 – Pupils should be taught to use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them.
Ideal for introducing prepositions in Year 3 or consolidation in Year 4.
Activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children identify prepositions that show the position of a noun in a sentence. Answers included.
Preposition passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the prepositions used to show the position of nouns. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
Preposition matching cards – match the picture to the preposition. Ideal for small group or paired work.
Preposition display cards.
National Curriculum Links
-Statutory content to be introduced in Year 3:
-Expressing place using prepositions.
Differentiation
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside.
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below.
Behind, on, outside, underneath, above, beside, inside, alongside, upon, below, by, between, near, among, around.
A bundle of 34 resources aimed at Year 3 or suitable in Y4 for consolidation. 34 short grammar activities that can be used in grammar sessions, plenaries or interventions. Can be used independently or as part of paired or group work. Answers included
Resources for:
Punctuation
Inverted commas
Possessive apostrophes
Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
Subordinate clauses
Verbs, nouns and adjectives
Statements, questions or commands.
Activities include identifying grammar within sentences/paragraphs, explaining how it has been used, marking and correcting sentences/paragraphs and improving sentences/paragraphs.
Initial sounds activity, children can sound out the initial sounds from the pictures and match them to the correct letter. Use the printable letters included or any wooden or magnetic letters you may have in your classroom.
This activity is perfect when teaching Phase 2 phonics and introducing the following letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.
A fun road map activity allowing children to practise counting from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 through play. Using the printed out road map, encourage children to follow the correct path with a toy car counting from 1-10 and 1-20. Once children have mastered this, they can cut out the numbers from 1 - 20 and place them on the blank road map, creating different pathways for themselves or their peers.
16 photo cards with a variety of play dough shapes and patterns for children to recreate. These cards provided a fantastic opportunity to develop children’s fine motor skills by creating a range of shapes with play dough, as well as encouraging their creativity to create new shapes or patterns.
Ideal for early EYFS, as part of an independent play dough station, or for encouraging development of fine motor skills for children with SEN.
Writing Bites!
Ten writing prompt sheets, perfect for: morning tasks, English lesson starters or even as a stimulus for a piece of writing. Each sheet has a different image and eight prompts for writing including: vocabulary, writing an alliterative sentence, generating questions and more.
PDF document of ten ‘writing bites’ and a PPT with writing bites explained, as well as an example writing bite.
A bundle of 10 fun Chirstmas activities suitable across Key Stage Two. Select individual activities or create your own Christmas activity booklet.
Plan a Christmas party with a budget.
Mindfulness colouring.
Christmas elf and bauble colouring and craft.
Spell check a Christmas letter (activities for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6).
Addition and subtraction Christmas trees.
Christmas story writing.
Snowflake symmetry.
Sorting the 12 days of Christmas.
Rearranging instructions for a Christmas recipe.
Sort and identify Merry Christmas in different languages on map of the world.
These activities are also available as part of our Advent Calendar, along with many more Christmas themed activities.
A fun way to practise times tables, from 2s to 12s. These snail themed races can be played in groups of 2 -4.
Times tables race tracks, students need to give the answer for the correct times tables.
Inverse times tables race tracks, students need to give the question for the answer given on the race tracks.
Answer cards for students to check their partners answers.
Instruction cards.
You may also need a stopwatch when playing in groups of 2 or 3 and counters to move along the race track.
Ideal for use in Lower Key Stage Two, builds on the work done in Year Two on subordinating conjunctions.
Subordinating conjunction activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and understand the meaning of different subordinating conjunctions. Answers included.
Subordinating conjunction passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the subordinating conjunctions used. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
Coordinating conjunction activity sheets with three levels of differentiation including a range of activities to help children recognise and use different coordinating conjunctions. Answers included.
Coordinating conjunction passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the coordinating conjunctions used. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
Conjunction talk cards. A range of questions including identifying the missing conjunction in a sentence, discussing the effectiveness of a conjunction and explaining how different conjunctions can change the meaning of a sentence. Answers included.
Conjunction display cards.
National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4
Pupils should be taught to extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.
Use conjunctions to express time and cause.
Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements.
Differentiation
Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although.
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or.
Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though.
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, yet.
Subordinating conjunctions: when, because, if, that, however, although, as, until, before, while, even though, since, provided that, unless.
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, yet, for, nor.
Eleven weeks of morning task activities, four activities per week.
These morning activities are perfect for the start of the day, after break or lunch. We know how these times of the school day can be tricky and there’s a lot going on, each day’s activity focuses on one objective with a challenge for any students who need it. They are designed to review curriculum knowledge that students have already learnt about, so are a perfect way to warm up for the day.
These activities are prepared for the second term of Year 4 but can be used whenever, keep an eye out for morning tasks for the rest of the year or buy our Autumn and Spring Bundle here. Objectives and activities include:
Multiplication and division facts
Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100
Multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit
Perimeter
Recognising fractions and their equivalents
Writing decimals
Sequences and patterns
Adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs
Spelling
Following instructions to create an image
Speech
Writing stories and letters
Reading comprehensions
Try the first week of Autumn morning activities for free here.
Ideal for use in Year 4 when fronted adverbials are first introduced or for consolidation in later years.
Fronted adverbials activity sheet with 3 levels of differentiation including a range of activities to allow children to identify and use a range of fronted adverbials. Answers included.
Fronted adverbials passages, short paragraphs with three levels of differentiation where children need to identify the fronted adverbials. Ideal as a short activity or a grammar session. Answers included.
‘Punctuating fronted adverbials with a comma’ activity sheet. A range of activities to encourage and remind children how to punctuate fronted adverbials with a comma. Answers included.
‘Punctuating fronted adverbials with a comma’ passage, a paragraph where children need to add the commas to the fronted adverbials they find. Answers included.
‘Fronted adverbials’ story. A short story about Ursula the Unicorn that children need to improve by adding fronted adverbials.
National Curriculum Links – Years 3 and 4
Terminology to be introduced in Year 4: fronted adverbial.
Years 3 and 4: Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by using fronted adverbials.
Differentiation
Fronted adverbials to show time and ‘ly’ adverbials to show how.
Above + fronted adverbials to show time, place and how.
Above + fronted adverbials to show how often and possibility.