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Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
These Y2 spelling review worksheets, covering the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Loch Ness Monster. The text covers Scottish folklore, sighting, photographs and modern day interest.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
These review worksheets, which show that the ‘or’ sound can be spelt ‘a’ before ‘l’ or ‘ll’, provide an excellent way to revise and practise this Year 2 spelling pattern.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using assonance in KS2. It contains examples of assonance and 5 different assonance challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using alliteration in KS2. It contains examples of alliteration and 5 different alliteration challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 2 spelling test are:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y
adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
This pack contains six SATs style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The spelling patterns covered on this Year 4 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one
Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’
Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
Understand and add suffix -ation,
Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que
Spell homophones and near-homophones
Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4
Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals
This Year 5 spelling patterns pack contains 10 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
This pack contains 6 SATs style-spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The Spelling patterns covered in the Year 5 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable
Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shus’ spelt -cious or -tious
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
Spell words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
Spell words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
Spell words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters
Spell some of the Year 5 and 6 words correctly
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
These KS2 reading comprehension worksheets include lots of information about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo moon missions, telling the story of Apollo 11 and other Apollo missions that came before and after. The resource can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework.
Also included are 12 comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of data retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words spelt with ‘ei’, ‘ey’ or ‘eigh’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these spellings.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 3 and Year 4 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice Year 5 and Year 6 words ending in -able, -ble, -ably and -ibly.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This pack contains six SATs-style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The spelling patterns covered on the Year 3 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
*Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’ e.g. division, decision
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt (English Appendix 1)
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words e.g. myth, gym
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ e.g. scheme, school, echo
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’ e.g. chef, machine
Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ e.g. eight, they
This KS2 reading comprehension resource tells the tale of how Robin Hood thwarted the Sheriff’s trap and won an archery competition, claiming the golden arrow. It can be used to test comprehension skills and as a model text for writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 20 reading comprehension questions (with answers provided on a separate sheet). These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.
A planning sheet is included to help children map out their own piece of writing inspired by the model text.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of complex sentences. There are a number of activities that demonstrate what a complex sentence is, and give students the opportunity to write their own.
There are images to included to help inspire children’s writing, as well as prompts and partial sentences for them to complete.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
Not just classroom wallpaper!
This pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating different coordinating conjunctions. Each poster uses an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain a GPS concept.
Blank balloon templates and display resources enable you to use the children’s own ideas or to add to the existing examples.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 6 spelling test are:
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer.
Use prefixes involving the use of a hyphen
Distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
Uncommon or more ambitious vocabulary
The images in this pack are designed to support children in developing their inference skills. Children can practise making inferences based on the visual clues in the pictures provided, and using evidence to support their answers.
This pack contains:
PowerPoint
The powerPoint models how to construct inferences from an image and use evidence to support these.
Inference Question cards
Children can be provided with cards as individuals, or they can be shared in groups, in order to prompt discussion.
Inference Recording sheets
These sheets include an image from which children must draw inferences. Space is included for children to include their inferences, and the evidence they have to support these. A space at the top is available for children to add a title for their image.
Inference images
Each of the inference images is available as a poster. These can be placed on display or shared with groups of children during reading discussions.
This KS2 story writing inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a science fiction theme.
The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way.
The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail.
The resources include:
A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text
Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories
Images to use as posters
This lower KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on the present perfect tense. As well as learning how to identify the present perfect tense, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work.
The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons.
The resources included in this pack are:
PowerPoint
Present perfect tense worksheets
Image cards
Writing plan
Upleveling sentences worksheet