Powerpoint covering all aspects of Year 1 SPAG (not phonics). There are 85 short activities intended for lesson starters/plenaries or time fillers. Tasks can be done on whiteboards or verbally. Slides feature ‘Silly Swan’ who is unsure how to complete tasks - children can be the teacher and help him. All can be edited as needed. Plural noun suffixes –s or –es Verb endings –ing, -ed or –er Prefix un- Making sentences Joining sentences and clauses using ‘and Sequencing sentences to form short narratives. Using finger spaces. Capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences Using capital letters for names and personal pronoun I.

Three weeks of planning, resources and smartboards aimed at Year3 based on Stone Age. Week 1: Stone Age Boy - reading and diary writing. (This actually took me longer than 1 week) Week 2: How to Survive the Stone Age - explanation focusing on conjunctions. Week 3: Non chronological report.

I made these for a Year 4 class to help them to improve the detail in their writing by describing feelings rather than just writing ‘she was scared.’ There is a smart board and a set of mindmaps. Very easy to edit.

I used this with Year 3 but would also suit Year 4. 5 Weeks of planning, smartboards and some resources (Resources not included are available elsewhere on TES) based on the book Escape from Pompeii. Some weeks have days missing in plans as lessons sometimes continued from the day before. Week 1: Reading and predicting the ending Week 2: Writing their own ending based on prediction Week 3-4: Newspaper reports (We used purple mash to present the reports which took a few days) Week 5: Kenning poetry

Join the clauses using a conjunction. Children match the clauses and choose a conjunction that makes sense. The sentences are all about Broccoli and Cauliflower. Suitable for LKS2. Nice to use as a paired or group task so the children can discuss why they think their sentence is correct.