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Exploring poetry: list poems worksheet

Exploring poetry: list poems

Some poems are very simply written as a list. Write your own list poem about the most disgusting dinner ever.
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Exploring poetry: haiku poems worksheet

Exploring poetry: haiku poems

Look through a magazine or newspaper for an interesting picture. Cut it out and stick it in the box. Write as many words and phrases about your picture as you can. Let your imagination run wild! Can
you include some similes? Now put a circle around the words and phrases that you particularly like. Can you write a haiku using these words?
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Exploring poetry: cinquains worksheet

Exploring poetry: cinquains

A cinquain is a five-line poem which follows a particular structure. Can you explain each line of this poem to an adult? Are there any words you don’t understand? If so, look them up in a dictionary. Look at the cinquain below. Does it follow the same structure?
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Explanation texts writing frame worksheet

Explanation texts writing frame

Read these notes on how bees produce honey. Write an explanation text on the writing frame, using the information above. You will need to put the notes above into proper sentences. Remember to include: time connectives; other connectives such as because, but, and, therefore; you also need to draw some pictures in the blank boxes.
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Developing story characters worksheet

Developing story characters

You are writing a story set in an imaginary world. Your main character is going to wake up in the setting you have created. How will your character react to waking up in your imaginary world? Use the box and the questions below to develop your character.
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Creating images in poetry worksheet

Creating images in poetry

A simile is when something is compared to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. This poem is about acorns. It contains two similes; can you find them?
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Create your own imaginary world worksheet

Create your own imaginary world

Can you create an imaginary world to set a story in? Think of books you have read set in imaginary worlds – you could ‘borrow’ ideas from these for your story. Or why not type ‘imaginary world’ into an internet search engine and use what you see to inspire you? Can you draw a picture of your imaginary world? Don't forget to label it with explanations and use lots of good adjectives and similes to describe your imaginary world.
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Crazy sentences: words containing ‘ss’ worksheet

Crazy sentences: words containing ‘ss’

All these words have ‘ss’ in the middle. Do you know what each one means? Practise writing each word by looking, covering the word, writing it and then checking to see if you were right.
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Changing verbs into adjectives with the suffix -able worksheet

Changing verbs into adjectives with the suffix -able

When you use the suffix -able, it is to change a verb into an adjective. For verbs ending in ‘e’, take the ‘e’ off before adding -able. For verbs ending in ‘y’, change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ before adding -able. Can you spell these words with the -able suffix attached?
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Asking questions to plan a recount worksheet

Asking questions to plan a recount

Read about this incident on a family holiday and imagine that this had happened to you recently. Think of some questions you could ask your family members about this incident. Get some of your family members to read the paragraph above, ask them your questions and write a recount of the event.

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Analysing a play script worksheet

Analysing a play script

Read this play script about a boy who finds himself on a magical island and is tempted to eat some very special fruit, then act it out with a family member. Can you find the following features in the play script?
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Even numbers wordsearch

Even numbers wordsearch

There are lots of even numbers hidden in this wordsearch – can you find them? One number is hidden twice – can you spot it?
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Writing a letter to a story character worksheet

Writing a letter to a story character

Use this letter template to write a letter to one of your favourite characters. Don’t forget to sign your name at the end!
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Writing questions worksheet

Writing questions

Read these questions words then use the words to write some questions. Don’t forget to include your question marks!
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Writing questions with wh words worksheet

Writing questions with wh words

Can you write some questions in the speech bubbles using the ‘wh words’ to help? Don’t forget your question marks!
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Writing for purpose: instructions

Writing for purpose: instructions

When you’re writing instructions it’s important to put everything in the right order. An alien has come down from Mars. He wants to know how to do a forward roll! Can you write instructions for him?
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Writing for different purposes: invitations

Writing for different purposes: invitations

You’re organising a teddy bears’ picnic! First you’ve got to write your invitations. Think of someone you’d like to invite and fill out the invitation below. Do you know what RSVP means? Find out by asking a grown-up.
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Writing definitions worksheet

Writing definitions

A definition is a description of what a word means. Dictionaries are collections of definitions. Can you fill in the chart giving definitions for the words? The first one is done for you.
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Writing a newspaper report

Writing a newspaper report

News is out that aliens have landed! Write a news report explaining all the facts – and don’t forget to draw and caption a picture so your readers know what the aliens look like!
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Writing a character diary worksheet

Writing a character diary

Choose a couple of pages from one of your favourite stories. Can you write a diary entry for the character in the story? What happened to them, where and when? Don’t forget to include how they felt.
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