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Word split: compound words puzzle

Word split: compound words

A mix and match puzzle created by teachers, using compound words, to support primary school literacy and demonstrate examples of compound words.
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Word colouring: nouns and pronouns

Word colouring: nouns and pronouns

Colour the squares with nouns in green. Colour the squares with pronouns in brown. Leave the blank squares empty, then work out what the picture is.
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Irregular past tense verbs wordsearch

Irregular past tense verbs wordsearch

A fun and free activity created by an experienced teacher with the aim of teaching KS2 children about irregular past tense verbs. Each of the sentences on the worksheet includes an incorrect past-tense verb. Circle the incorrect verb and then find the correct form of the verb in the wordsearch.
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Spelling patterns: the prefix cir- worksheet

Spelling patterns: the prefix cir-

Can you complete this mini-wordsearch? All the words you need start with the prefix circ- and are below. What do you think circ- means?
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Write your own homonyms crossword puzzle

Write your own homonyms crossword puzzle

Homonyms are pairs of words that are spelled and pronounced the same way, but have different meanings. Look at these words. Can you work out the two different meanings?
If not, look them up in the dictionary. On the next page you’ll need to create TWO crossword puzzles where the homonyms are the answers. Each word will need two different clues, one for each meaning.
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Making compound words worksheet

Making compound words

Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
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Write a non-fiction report worksheet

Write a non-fiction report

Help your child write about a day out to a museum or gallery with a non-fiction report template, perfect for Year 2 learners and new writers.
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KS2 Easter activities pack cover

KS2 Easter activities pack

Get ready for some egg-y, chocolate-y, Easter-y fun! The KS2 Easter activities pack has plenty of themed maths, English and science learning opportunities to keep kids busy and learning over the spring break.
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KS1 Easter activities pack

KS1 Easter activities pack

English, maths and science have a very chocolatey taste over the Easter break, with lots of maths, phonics, spelling and simple science investigations to keep chocolate-hunters busy and learning.
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Tricky words memory match worksheet

Tricky words memory match (Phase 5 phonics)

Exception words or tricky words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual way. Have a go at this game of memory match to test your knowledge of some tricky spellings!
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The grapheme ‘ch’ for the /k/ sound and the /sh/ sound

The grapheme ‘ch’ for the /k/ sound and the /sh/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)

The grapheme ‘ch’ is used to encode (spell) different sounds in English. Say each word aloud, then sort them into the table below.
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Y1 phonics practice: reading alien words worksheet

Y1 phonics practice: reading alien words

Let's go alien hunting! Read each word aloud and decide whether you think it is a real word or an alien word.
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Word sorting (Phase 3 phonics) worksheet

Word sorting (Phase 3 phonics)

The words below include the vowel graphemes ‘ear’, ‘air’, ‘ure’ and ‘er’. Can you spot them? Cut out the words and place them face down on the table.
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What are polysyllabic words worksheet

What are polysyllabic words?

A polysyllabic word is a word that has more than one syllable. Can you break these polysyllabic words down into syllables?
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The /zh/ phoneme mini bingo (Phase 5 phonics) worksheet

The /zh/ phoneme mini bingo (Phase 5 phonics)

There are lots of different ways of writing the /zh/ sound. Let's play mini bingo to help you learn them!
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The /ee/ sound practice worksheet

The /ee/ sound practice (Phase 5 phonics)

Cut out the words below and place them under the “sea”. Now it's time to go fishing!
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The /ai/ sound treasure hunt trail (Phase 5 phonics) worksheet

The /ai/ sound treasure hunt trail (Phase 5 phonics)

Cut out the words below and ask your grown up to hide them around the room for you to find. No peeking! When you have found all the cards, read them to your grown up. Sort each word into the table below. Which grapheme (‘ay’, ‘a_e’’, ‘ai’) has the most words? Which has the least?
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Sorting words (Phase 3 phonics) worksheet

Sorting words (Phase 3 phonics)

These words include the vowel graphemes ‘ai’, ‘ee’, ‘igh’ and ‘oa’. Can you spot them? Cut out the words and place them face down on the table.Turn a card over and read it aloud. Which sound can you hear? Write the word in the table. Which sound has the most words? Which has the least?
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Say and write a sentence worksheet

Say and write a sentence (Phase 3 phonics)

Cut out the words and place them face down on a table. Working with a grown-up, take it in turns to turn a word over and read the word out. Can you say a sentence that contains the word?
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Reading tricky words (Phase 4 phonics) worksheet

Reading tricky words (Phase 4 phonics)

Cut out these words and place them under the “sea”. Next, reach under the “sea” and pull a fish out, then read its word aloud. Can you catch all the fish?
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Polysyllabic words Game

Polysyllabic words Game

To play, cut out the word cards and place them all face down on the table. Take it in turns to turn a card over and read the word and its individual syllables out loud. Keep the words you have turned over; when all the cards have been collected, count the total of syllables for all your words. The winner
is the person with the most syllables.
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High frequency words treasure hunt (Phase 2 / 3 phonics)

High frequency words treasure hunt (Phase 2 / 3 phonics)

Cut out the words below and ask your grown up to hide them around the room for you to find. No peeking! When you’ve found all the cards, read them to your grown up, then pick three to write sentences for.
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Hard g or soft g? (Phase 5 phonics)

Hard g or soft g? (Phase 5 phonics)

Usually the way we read ‘g’ depends on the letter that follows it (there are exceptions). Learn the rule then see if you can sort these words into the table.
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Forming the plural memory match game

Forming the plural memory match

Cut out the words below, muddle them up and place them face down. Each player takes it in turns to turn two cards over and read the words aloud. If the words are the singular word and its plural when a suffix has been added they keep the pair; if not they turn them back over. When all the pairs have been collected the winner is the player with the most pairs.
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Adding the suffixes -s or -es to form the plural worksheet

Adding the suffixes -s or -es to form the plural

Can you sort these singular words into the correct column to show how you'd form the plural?
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