51ºÚÁÏ

Here are some sample end of year report comments to be used with a year 3 class (could be easily adapted up or down). The comments cover reading, writing, speaking and listening and are differentiated. Enjoy resting your brain!

Children generate adjectives, similes and metaphors from a range of picture prompts. Resource can be used as a follow up to whole class teaching. I used these as part of a poetry unit in Year 3.

3 differentiated sheets to promote the use of descriptive devices in writing. The resource was used as part of a traditional stories unit. Suitable from year 1 - 3.

A Word version of the cut and paste resource.

A great thinking skills activity. Children to decide which is the odd one out from 3 given pictures, and explain their reasoning. I used this from Year 1 up as an early morning activity and also time filler. Children should be reminded that there are no wrong answers as long as their answer can be justified. I have heard some amazing ideas during this activity - enjoy!

A cut and paste activity to reinforce features of an advert in persuasive text units. Designed for LA Year 3 children. Children paste the examples under the subheadings and then write in some examples of their own (could be provided by the teacher)

These resources ca be used to support the teaching of personification in poetry. I used these resources with a Year 3 class however they could be used up to Year 5.

This is a worksheet designed for year 3/4 when teaching explanatory texts. Each page has a different picture for the children to use, they will both describe what can be seen and explain what is happening in the picture. Resource can be used at any point in the unit.

Grammar challenge! Can children fill the table with nouns, verbs and adjectives for each letter of the alphabet? A great activity for group or pair work to support understanding of parts of speech. I used this with Grade 3 but could be used up to Grade/Year 5

A Word version of the publisher file

This is a pack I made for a split grade 3/4 class. It is made up of different literacy activities for them to complete based on an Ancient Greece topic. The additional reading was done via Kids A-Z although other versions can easily be used in place. The activities require the children to read and research themes such as pottery and the Olympics, but there is also grammar, poetry and art included. I have included a page for teachers with all of the video links and instructions for the week.

2 differentiated informal letters for the children to cut out, sort and stick into the correct format. Great revision or initial assessment of understanding.

Some sheets I used with a K5 class at the beginning of the year. Used to revise the letters of the alphabet and initial letter sounds. Could be used with 1st Grade/Year 1 lower ability children or ESL children. Good also as a formative assessment.

This is a cut and paste activity. Children will be given colour coded cause and effect sentences, which they should unscramble and paste in their books. Children will then shade the cause in one colour and the effect in another. I had the sentences pre-cut and in envelopes (1 set for each child). As the sentences are colour coded this worked well and also gave the children a chance to revise their knowledge of sentences e.g. starting with a capital etc. This activity was used for a LA group in Year 3 but could be used in many different ways, including pre_assessment of cause and effect, or end of unit assessment. The children really enjoyed the activity.

A notebook resource used to support the teaching of causal connectives.

A warm up activity to briefly assess understanding or knowledge gained. Children circle the time connectives/temporal words or phrases, from a selection given. Children then add their own examples below. I used this with Grade 1 but can be used from reception/Kinder up to 3, as an introductory or end of unit quick assessment.

Children will use this frame to help them develop ideas about a new character. I used this after the children created characters using the ‘draw, fold and switch’ method. They stuck their characters onto the sheet and then wrote details about the character they had created. There are 3 different versions of the sheet - a really fun way to promote creative, detailed writing.

A grid of activities to complete with given spelling words. A great resource for KS2.

A template for analyzing fiction stories and their structure.