Master the dictionary, collect the most books and race to victory in this 2-6 player board game.
Dictionary Conqueror has been designed to students the practice needed to be competent dictionary users. In this game, they are challenged to locate words, give dictionary definitions and use the words correctly in sentences. Special race cards give students the chance to be the first to find a word, earning them extra points. Words have been chosen to expand their vocabularies as well as improving their dictionary skills. For an added level of difficulty, Dictionary Conqueror can be played against the clock.
Level 1 – Players are given two words and they must say which would come first in the dictionary (frog/egg, hat/hello)
Level 2 – Players find simple words in the dictionary (apple, happy, bird)
Level 3 – Players find more difficult words in the dictionary (carpet, tulip, sword)
Level 4 – Players find tricky words in the dictionary and put them into sentences to expand their vocabularies (haggard, proprietor, cower)
Contains 44 pages.
A fast-paced and fun game suitable for a variety of lessons. Teach children sentence structure, the importance of subjects and verbs, discuss parts of speech, or just compete against others to create the most ridiculous headlines.
Beat your opponent using this traditional pen and paper game. Use the words from the National Spelling Appendix to create your ships, and keep your fingers crossed that you can guess all of your opponent’s words and positions before they do.
Word sets included with this download:
Years 1 and 2 (8 sets)
Years 3 and 4 (8 sets)
Years 5 and 6 (9 sets)
This amusing tale, featuring Chika the gerbil, offers pupils the opportunity to enjoy a class story and develop their understanding through targeted questions. Specially written to enhance comprehension skills and put together in a handy PowerPoint format, it contains a story following the adventure of the young gerbil, who thinks he has found the ideal owner but ends up in a noisy Year 3 classroom! There is a new chapter for each lesson, along with discussion points and comprehension questions. It could be used in whole class settings, group interventions or with your children at home.
-The Big Book of Grammar Teaching will give you clear definitions, examples and games to do with you class.
-The Grammar Gang characters come in two formats- one as just the characters, and the other has them holding boards so that you can write examples of sentence structures and hang them on your class washing line.
-The parts of speech posters will liven up any display, and they use the Grammar Gang characters for familiarity.
-Hilarious Headlines is an amazing game that I guarantee your kids will love! The cards all have nouns, verbs and phrases. Children are given 5 random cards they have to make into a grammatically correct sentence. Purple Aliens Dab in the White House anyone?
-Our prefix dominoes teach a range of prefixes, and will give you the chance to explain the role of root words without the children even realising!
-Synonym Happy Families is a take on the old card game. Challenging in its vocabulary, the game asks the students to create families whose name has a similar meaning. Personally, I don’t think I’d want to be in family with Mr Fury, Mrs Anger, Master Hot-tempered or Miss Livid!
This digital handbook will guide you through the range of grammatical knowledge that primary children will need to know by the end of Year 6. It has been carefully mapped so that it clearly shows progression within a skill, and to ensure that each skill builds on the previous one. It gives teachers guidance on subject knowledge as well as ideas for teaching and for challenging the more able. It is designed for you to quickly refer to again and again.
It includes:
- Articles and determiners
- Parts of speech
- Sentence structures (simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences)
- Punctuation
- Apostrophes
- Tense
This is a fantastic 16 page resource that will enable pupils to master any text and develop their reading skills. The pack contains 8 full colour anchor charts as well as 8 skills cards that can be laminated for use with a range of texts. For use with a whole class, small groups or individuals, this resource will get you off to a flying start. For ages 7 and up.
A perfect accompaniment for those KS2 children studying space, Crash Landing is a five-part comprehension pack, which includes pre-reading questions as well as discussion and comprehension activities. Use either in your daily reading block or use it over a number of weeks to supplement work in English lessons.
This booklet will teach your pupils the skills and sounds they need to become spectacular spellers in no time. Each page focuses on a different sound and spelling, and gives example words for pupils to use. The 42-page booklet can be used in class or as homework.
Never be caught short during your reading instruction again. 100% guaranteed to work without Wi-Fi!
These 56 task cards cover 8 text types including narrative, description, persuasion, argument, poetry, general non-fiction, biography and autobiography. Each text type is colour coded for ease of instruction.
Give a set to each group to use independently, use them with a small group or even use them for your own reference.
Downloading this reading package will save time, teach skills and revamp your reading block.
Includes:
-Text Detectives
This is a fantastic 16 page resource that will enable pupils to master any text and develop their reading skills. The pack contains 8 full colour anchor charts as well as 8 skills cards that can be laminated for use with a range of texts. For use with a whole class, small groups or individuals, this resource will get you off to a flying start. For ages 7 and up.
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 -Mind the Gap
Are you bored of using the same tired, old reading for enjoyment scheme? Then kick-start reading this year with some London Tube fun. All of the stations have been renamed as authors, and each has a task to be completed. Which of your students will master the tracks and complete every task?
-The Gerbil's Adventure
This amusing tale, featuring Chika the gerbil, offers pupils the opportunity to enjoy a class story and develop their understanding through targeted questions. Specially written to enhance comprehension skills and put together in a handy PowerPoint format, it contains a story following the adventure of the young gerbil, who thinks he has found the ideal owner but ends up in a noisy Year 3 classroom! There is a new chapter for each lesson, along with discussion points and comprehension questions.
-Crash Landing
A perfect accompaniment for those KS2 children studying space, Crash Landing is a five-part comprehension pack, which includes pre-reading questions as well as discussion and comprehension activities. Use either in your daily reading block or use it over a number of weeks to supplement work in English lessons.
-PLUS an hour-long video training session where Jill shows you how to make the most of your new resources.
Your poetry unit will be a dream with our poetry pack.
Contains:
Editable poetry success criteria covering performance poetry, analysing poems, free verse, planning and redrafting poetry, comprehending poetry, haiku and narrative poem.
Poetry Definitions Follow Me game for poetry terminology.
30-board Poetry Bingo for poetry terminology.
Rhyming Dominoes
Syllable Search
Buy the whole pack at the discounted price of £10. The resources are also available individually.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Give your students clear guidance on how to proofread with this easy-to-understand guide. It can be stuck into their books or attached to a keyring for easy reference.
Included:
- Quick accuracy checklist
- Capital letters and end of sentence punctuation
- Making simple sentences more interesting
- Writing compound and complex sentences
- Expanding your punctuation use
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5-page trackers will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Aimed at Year 4 and 5 (or Grade 3/4), these packs can be used for reading intervention students in Year 6.
20 texts with answers.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5 and 7-page trackers will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Aimed at Year 5 and 6 (or Grade 4/5), these packs can be used for reading intervention students in higher years.
30 texts with answers.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5 and 7-page trackers will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Aimed at Year 3 to Year 6 (or Grade 2 to Grade 5), these packs can be used for reading intervention students in higher years.
50 texts with answers. Purchasing each year group pack separately would cost £47. This complete KS2 pack costs only £20!
Get your class ready for the English SATs with our complete Year 6 preparation pack; perfect for use in the run-up to the important week.
Includes:
- 20 reading comprehension texts with a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions. It comes complete with a handy 7-page tracker, which will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Answers are included.
- 6 grammar progress checks, which will increase your students’ familiarity with the question styles they will be given during the grammar exam. Includes a class tracker. Each 20-question check has been condensed on to 4 pages to save on your printing.
- 10 spelling tests; five using the LKS2 words and five using the UKS2 words from the UK National Spelling Appendix. Each test has a pupil answer sheet and a teacher sheet with example sentences. There is also a class tracker.
Bought separately, these resources come to £32; they are yours today for just £25. That’s a saving of over 20%!
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Five instructional PowerPoints including apostrophes (possession and contraction), homophones 2, soft ‘g,’ and adding the ible and able suffixes. This pack also includes four games including bingo, Word Surgery, a crossword and Explosion! To help show progress there is a student quiz with teachers’ answer guide.