This resource contains 20 + spelling activities and games.
Suitable for any word list (KS1, KS2)
Almost no prep needed apart from printing (some games require a dice or a spinner).
Can be used year after year making it a great investment!
Activities include: secret code writing; spelling battleships; look/say/cover/write/check; iPad spellings; postcard writing; word search making; rainbow spelling; dictionary work; word webs; word swirls; spelling hangman; board game; word families; comic strips and more!
A PowerPoint Lesson introducing the Present Perfect Tense. Over 20 slides packed with explanations and practice materials -identifying verbs; looking for differences between Simple Past and Present Perfect; common uses; forming Present Perfect.
Most text can be edited to suit the needs of your pupils. Blank slide included. pptx format
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Up for your consideration is a PowerPoint lesson introducing ING SENTENCE OPENERS.
Contains the warm up activity, rules for adding the ing openers, practice and independent work slides.
.ppt format. Most text is editable. 16 slides including the credits slide.
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The resource follows the National Curriculum guidelines for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar in Upper KS2 (Years 5 and 6)
This HUGE set will give you everything you need for your SPaG wall. Included are 31 posters and 22 vocabulary cards on various SPaG topics.
Posters: suffixes (converting nouns and adjectives into verbs); prefixes (changing meaning of verbs); relative clauses; embedded relative clauses; relative pronouns; modal verbs; types of modal verbs; parenthesis; brackets; dashes; commas; commas to avoid ambiguity; paragraph cohesion; formal and informal language; passive voice; layout devices; subjunctive mood; ellipsis; semi-colon; colon; hyphen; antonyms; synonyms.
Can be printed as A4 or A3 (just change the settings on your Print page). The posters can also be scaled down (choose Multiple on the Print page) and used as reference cards - the choice is yours!
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An editable PowerPoint introducing the doubling consonant rules with suffixes -ed, -ing, -er, -est. 17 slides with rules and practice pages.
Suitable for KS2 (English, SPaG, Spellings)
I have created these to remind the children of what the subordinating conjunctions (or connectives) are. They are shaped as cute pencils which can be laminated, cut out and displayed on your SPaG or English board. Included are 15 pencils with different conjunctions written on them (with 2 blank ones to write your own).
The images are of great quality. There are 3 pencils per page of A4 but could be printed on A3 if larger pictures required.
Town Map Templates (directions, places, French)
A set of 15 (a mixture of colour and black and white) town maps to be used for a variety of purposes:
great for teaching prepositions, places in town, giving directions in English, French or any other language.
The maps come with various icons for students to label themselves.
I have also included a few blank black and white versions to create their own maps.
Thank you for your interest. Please drop me an email if you need anything changing or adding, I always reply promptly.
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Year 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling BUNDLE sets 6-10
Save ££ and get the 5 sets of Years 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities Sets as a BUNDLE.
Each set includes 5 different spelling activities to practise the common exception words; also included in each set are the mini word lists and word cards for display.
Please view each set individually to see the activities included.
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Celebrate this year's World Book Day with this fun activity!
The activity is mainly aimed at lower KS2.
A set of 24 task cards with multiple choice questions about the books and characters children are familiar with. Recording sheet and answer sheet included.
Can be used as table tasks or hidden around the classroom for a fun hunt activity.
This bundle contains all of my 10 sets of Year 5/6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities. Each set has at least 5 spelling activities plus a mini spelling list and word cards.
Please view each set individually to know more.
If you want to check the quality of my work, please download set 1 for free by following the link https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-5-6-common-exception-words-spelling-activities-set-1-11982745
If you have a suggestion or spotted a mistake, please do not hesitate to send me an email which is included at the end of each set. Thank you for your interest in my products!
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This fun quiz consists of 25 multiple choice questions about summer. Recording sheet included. Editable text. Great end of year activity. Suitable for KS2 - KS3
This is a free Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Practice Paper with 50 questions. Based on 2017 SPaG SATs Test. Great for revision in Year 6 KS2.
Questions include: word classes, active/passive voice, subordinate and main clauses, commas in lists, embedded clauses, relative clauses and many more.
Answers included.
This resource is completely free. Hope you and your students find it helpful.
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Degrees of Possibility Adverbs and Modal Verbs
A PowerPoint lesson on indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs and modal verbs. Suitable for KS2 Year 5 SPaG.
Included are 19 slides with clear explanations and exciting activities for practice. All text is editable so that you can tailor it to the needs of your class.
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Please note, I am in the process of redesigning the bundle, so sets 1, 2 and 3 will appear different to the other sets. You are welcome to redownload the bundle once I’ve updated the design on all the sets.
This bundle contains all of my 10 sets of Year 3/4 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities. Each set has at least 5 spelling activities plus a mini spelling list and word cards.
Please view each set individually to know more.
If you want to check the quality of my work, please download set 1 for free by following the link https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-4-common-exception-words-spelling-activities-set-1-11657367
If you have a suggestion or spotted a mistake, please do not hesitate to send me an email which is included at the end of each set. Thank you for your interest in my products!
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This is the second set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the 10 words of the list - build, busy
( business), calendar, caught, centre, century, certain, circle, complete, consider.
The activities include :
page 1 - mini word lists
page 2 - Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check activity
pages 3 -8 - Word flash cards (2 per page of A4)
pages 9 - 10 - Word search (with answers)
page 11 - Make a sentence activity
page 12 - Circle it! activity
page 13 - Spelling Rainbow activity
page 14 - credits
This set is part of a Bundle
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in your classroom with this easy and fun craft and writing activity suitable for KS1 / lower KS2.
Start by reading a story about the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, then introduce the main activity – making a Zodiac wheel. Children cut out the wheel and animal cards which they then glue to the wheel and colour or decorate it.
Finish off with a quick writing task – children draw or colour (both versions included) their Zodiac animal, read about its strength and weaknesses and say if they agree with the descriptions.
The resource is in .pdf format , not editable (29 pages including the cover and credits page) and includes:
1. The story of the 12 Zodiac animals.
2. Zodiac Craft instructions
3. Zodiac Craft
4. Zodiac writing activity (individual pages for each Zodiac animal)
The resource has been updated up to the Year 2026 (with lowest year now being 2003)
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Fronted Adverbials Lesson (English, SPaG)
An introductory PowerPoint lesson on fronted adverbials. Children go on a journey with Harry Potter characters and recap what makes a sentence a sentence; how we can extend sentences; what an adverbial is; what makes an adverbial a fronted adverbial and how to punctuate it. A few practice pages also included. Can be used as a whole lesson.
Suitable for KS2
Fully editable text to tailor to the needs of your class.
Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 2)
This is the second set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the following 10 words of the list - available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community.
The activities include :
page 1 - cover
page 2 - mini word lists
page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity
pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards
pages 9 - 10 - Word Search (with answers)
page 11 - Which is correct? activity
page 12 - Spelling Rainbow activity
page 13 - Word Puzzles activity
page 14 -credits
Follow the link for Set 1, which is free.
More sets will appear shortly. Each will include at least 5 spelling activities, plus mini word lists and flash cards. These will later be combined into a bundle.
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The resource follows the National Curriculum guidelines for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar in Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4)
This HUGE set will give you everything you need for your SPaG wall. Included are 22 posters and 26 vocabulary cards on various SPaG topics.
Posters: prepositions, root words, suffixes, prefixes, conjunctions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, plural nouns, word families, homophones, direct speech, articles, adverbs, fronted adverbials, pronouns, paragraphs, headings and subheadings, Present Perfect and Past Simple, main clause, subordinate clause, noun phrases, determiners.
Can be printed as A4 or A3 (just change the settings on your Print page). The posters can also be scaled down (choose Multiple on the Print page) and used as reference cards - the choice is yours!
Thank you for interest in my products!
Hoppy Times