These resources have been created using my experience as a primary school teacher. They are designed in a way which allows children to understand a specific concept or skill, by being given an example or explanation to follow and activities to complete. The worksheets are clear and simple to follow, many of which have an extension activity.
These resources have been created using my experience as a primary school teacher. They are designed in a way which allows children to understand a specific concept or skill, by being given an example or explanation to follow and activities to complete. The worksheets are clear and simple to follow, many of which have an extension activity.
Clear and concise explanation on what a determiner is and types of determiners.
Useful table provided for children to keep as a learning aid.
Activities to develop and reinforce understanding.
Worksheet can be used in the classroom, or as homework.
Practise and reinforce long vowel sounds for 'e'.
Read the words. Cut them out. Stick the words with an ea on the leave and ee on the sheep.
Ideal for practising and reinforcing phonics, reading and writing.
CVC words have a vowel (a e i o u) sound in the middle of the word. Write the missing vowel sound in these words. Picture cues are given.
Extension Activity: Copy the words underneath.
Helps to extend vocabulary and phonic knowledge.
Can be used to support work in the classroom, as a consolidation activity, assessment or as homework.
Practise identifying words with the long vowel sound for 'a'.
Read the words. Draw a line to the correct sound in the word.
Then write all the ‘ai’ words in one list and all the 'a-e' words in another list.
Ideal for practising reading/writing and reinforcing words with long vowel sounds.
Practise and reinforce long vowel sounds for 'o'.
Read the words and circle them in a different colour for each sound. Words used contain the long vowel sound spelt using: 'oa' and 'o_e'.
Then sort them into 2 groups. Helping them to remember and group words.
Extension activity: They can then choose four words and write a sentence for each word.
Ideal for practising and reinforcing phonics, reading and writing.
Helpsheet for children planning a story. Ideas for what to write about in the opening, build-up, problem, resolution and conclusion. This story mountain can be used to guide children through the planning phase and make improvements to their story writing skills.
29 quality worksheets, with clear examples and explanations.
Read and write words phonetically, including common blends, digraphs and vowel sound alternatives.
The pack also shows how rhyming and sounding out words can be used to help with spellings.
Sounds practised include: sh, ch, th, fl, st, br, tr, cl, long oo or short oo, ay, ow, sp, sm, sn, qu, str, mp, nd, air, ear, er, ou, ow, oi, oy, real/nonsense words, ake, ock, ad, ate, ine, eep, ice, ook
Worksheets include:
sh, ch, th Words
fl, st, br, tr, cl Words
Phonics - long oo or short oo
ay
ow
sp, sm, sn
Word-Building - qu
str
mp, nd
Phonics – Missing Sounds in Words
Phonics - air, ear, er
ou, ow
oi, oy
Sounding Out Words - Spellings
Rhyming Words - real/nonsense words
ake ock ad
ate ine eep ice ook
Long Vowel Sounds - individual worksheets covering each vowel sound
Phonics - individual worksheets covering vowel sounds alternatives
Sound Flashcards
By joining together digraphs, we can make words.
Children start by saying the digraphs in the bubbles.
For each word, they say the beginning and the end of the word. Then say the sounds together. Write the complete word.
Can they think of any more words that begin with these sounds?
Helps build children's vocabulary and knowledge of phonics. Helps with writing words using consonant digraphs and digraphs.
10 Quality KS1 Activities with answers included, to help children improve their sentence writing skills.
The words used within this pack include those that can be sounded out phonetically, words that children will need to learn by sight and high frequency words (most commonly used words).
Activities within the pack will help children read words, use them within simple sentences and how to extend sentences to make them more interesting.
Activities 1-6: Recognising sounds (hard and soft sounds, long and short sounds) and rhyming strings
- 'o'sound
- 'g'sound
- 'c'sound
- 'ea'sound
- 'ow'sound
- rhyming strings 'at' 'all' 'ake' 'ain' 'ight'
Activities 7 – 9: Reading words and writing simple sentences
Activity 10: Extending sentences to make them more interesting
Clear and concise worksheet to help children understand what a semi-colon is, how and when to use one within their writing. The focus of this worksheet is on using semi-colons to link ideas.
Can be used to reinforce and support classroom learning, to help consolidate grammar and punctuation work, or as homework.
Look at the picture and fill in the missing sound - is it 'ai' or 'oa'?
Read the simple sentences and fill in the missing words.
Write a simple sentence for each of these words: rain boat daisy road
Helps to extend vocabulary and phonic knowledge.
Can be used to support work in the classroom, as a consolidation activity, or as homework.
Making words that end in ‘ck’.
Cut out the rectangles. Match the beginning of the word with the ‘ck’. Write the word in the table. Stick the correct picture next to the word.
Pictures, words and table are all provided.
Helps to extend vocabulary and phonic knowledge.
Can be used to support work in the classroom, as a consolidation activity, or as homework.
High quality worksheets to improve sentence writing in Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2.
Packs combine phonics, high frequency words and conjunctions to write and extend sentences.
Can be used as homework, reinforce and revise what has been taught in class.
Covering National Curriculum objectives for Key Stage 2.
High quality worksheets, with examples and explanations.
Can be used for weekly tests, revision, homework or class activity.
20 tests provided, each test contains 15 words and an extension activity.Plus a blank spellings grid to write your own words. Can be used for weekly tests, or for homework. Methods for learning spellings are provided.
This pack includes keywords and common spelling patterns. Ideal for children aged between 9 and 11 years old. Covers the spellings requirements of the National Curriculum. Helps children practise spelling rules.
Words are set out in a table to allow children to practise each word. There is also an extension activity for each set of words, giving children the opportunity to use the words in a sentence or find out word meanings.
Contents:
Spelling Tests 1 – 6 (keywords)
Spelling Test 7 (keywords, -our words)
Spelling Test 8 (silent letters)
Spelling Test 9 (homophones)
Spelling Test 10 (homophones)
Spelling Test 11 (ough words)
Spelling Test 12 (ie words)
Spelling Test 13 (ei words)
Spelling Test 14 (-cial, -cious)
Spelling Test 15 (-tial, -tious)
Spelling Test 16 (-ible, -ilbly)
Spelling Test 17 (-able. -ably)
Spelling Test 18 (en, ate, ify, ise words)
Spelling Test 19 (bi, tri, quad, centi words)
Spelling Test 20 (small to large)
Blank Spellings Grid
28 tests. Each test has 9 words. Can be used for weekly tests or homework.
A method of learning spellings is provided to help children at home.
Includes keywords and common spelling patterns. Ideal for children aged between 5 and 7 years old.
Covers the spellings requirements of the National Curriculum and reinforces phonics taught at school. Helps children practise spelling rules.
Spelling Tests 1 – 12 (Keywords)
Spelling Test 13 (-tch)
Spelling Test 14 (igh)
Spelling Test 15 (ore)
Spelling Test 16 (ending in y)
Spelling Test 17 (compound words)
Spelling Test 18 (ph)
Spelling Test 19 (un)
Spelling Test 20 (wr)
Spelling Test 21 (silent k)
Spelling Test 22 (-le)
Spelling Test 23 (-el)
Spelling Test 24 (-al)
Spelling Test 25 (-mb)
Spelling Test 26 (-dge)
Spelling Test 27 (-ey)
Spelling Test 28 (contractions)
28 tests provided. Each test containing 10 words. Can be used for weekly tests or for homework.
Words are set out in a table to allow children to practise each word.Practise and learn spellings. Methods for learning spellings are provided.
This pack includes keywords and common spelling patterns. Ideal for children aged between 7 and 10 years old. Covers the spellings requirements of the National Curriculum for Years 3 and 4. Helps children practise spelling rules. Can also be used with children in Years 5 and 6, or for revision.
Contents:
Spelling Tests 1 – 10 (keywords)
Spelling Test 11 (double letter words)
Spelling Test 12 (Prefixes: un-)
Spelling Test 13 (Prefixes: mis-, in-)
Spelling Test 14 (Prefixes: dis-)
Spelling Test 15 (Prefixes: il-, im-, ir-)
Spelling Test 16 (Prefixes: re-, sub-)
Spelling Test 17 (Prefixes: super, anti, auto)
Spelling Test 18 (-ation)
Spelling Test 19 (-sure, -ture)
Spelling Test 20 (-sion)
Spelling Test 21 (-tion)
Spelling Test 22 (-cian)
Spelling Test 23 (-ly)
Spelling Test 24 (-ness, -ment)
Spelling Test 25 (-que, ksound spelt ch)
Spelling Test 26 (s sound spelt sc)
Spelling Test 27 (homophones)
Spelling Test 28 (homophones)
28 visually engaging, quality worksheets. Created to help children learn to read and write words phonetically, including letter sounds, common blends and digraphs.
The pack also shows how rhyming words can be used to help with spellings.
Sounds practised include: ck, ff ll ss, b or d?, ch, sh, th, ng, short oo, long oo, st, ee, ai, oa, oi, or, igh, ed, at, og,
Worksheets include:
CVC Words
Sounding Out Words
Phonics (various worksheets covering the following sounds) - ck, ff ll ss, b or d?, ch, sh, th, ng, short oo, long oo, st, ee)
Writing ee and ai Words
Writing igh Words
Phonics - ai and oa
oi and or
Sounding Out Words
Rhyming Words - og
at
ed
Sound Flashcards
10 Quality Activities, with answers included, to help children extend their sentences.
Improve sentence writing skills. The words used within this pack include those that can be sounded out phonetically, words that children will need to learn by sight and high frequency words (most commonly used words).
Activities within the pack will help children read simple sentences. The pack will also help children write longer sentences and make them more interesting.
Activities 1: Extending sentences using Who, What, Where, When
Activities 2 – 4: Joining sentences using ‘and’
Activities 5 - 7: Extending sentences using ‘because’
Activities 8 - 10: Extending sentences using ‘but’
26 handwriting worksheets, covering every letter of the alphabet. Includes capital letters.
Every worksheet has an activity to ensure the correct direction and formation of the letter is used.
Pencil control.
Examples of how each letter is used within words is also shown.