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Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
Can you place the words in the correct rows in the grid so that the shaded column spells out another adjective?
A fronted adverbial is an adverb or adverbial phrase at the beginning of a sentence. It describes where, when and how something is done. Cut out these parts of sentences. Can you match the fronted adverbial to the correct sentence ending?
Relative clauses are used to add information to a sentence. They usually start with when, who, that, which or whose. Cut out the relative clauses in the table below and work out where they should go in the following sentences.
When we talk about clauses in a sentence, we mean their parts. Clauses always have a noun and a verb in them and are often linked by a connective. These sentences each have two clauses with a comma or connective between them. Underline each of the separate clauses.
Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
A polysyllabic word is a word that has more than one syllable. Can you break these polysyllabic words down into syllables?
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.
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.
Can you sort these singular words into the correct column to show how you'd form the plural?
This story should be written in the present tense to tell the reader that the events in the story are happening now. Can you look at the underlined verbs and change them to the present tense?
When we write a story, it is important to describe all the events using the same verb tense. This story should be written in the past tense to tell the reader that the events in the story have already happened. Can you look at the underlined verbs and change them to the past tense?
When there is more than person or thing doing something, we say were. When there is just one person or thing doing something, we say was. Can you put either were or was into the following sentences?
Can you cut out these sentences and sort them into three tense groups (past, present and future)?
Can you add the pronouns below into the gaps in this passage from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter?
This is a passage from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Look at the past tense verbs in the box below. Can you insert the correct ones in the gaps in the text?
This passage is about how and why the ancient Egyptians mummified dead bodies. Some verbs are in bold. Look at the subject of each of these verbs and also think about the tense they should be in (you may want to read the passage a few times first). Can you change the verbs so that they agree with their subjects and the tenses are correct?
In the following passage from The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter, can you replace the nouns (in bold) with any pronouns?
This is a passage from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Look at all the underlined words. These are verbs (doing or being words) that are in the past tense, which means they are describing events that have already happened. Can you write the present tense of the verb above each one?
We use the present tense to talk about things that are happening now, in the present. We use the past tense to talk about things that have already happened. Can you cut out these sentences and sort them into two piles to show which use the present tense and which the past tense?
Look at the following sentences. Each one needs to be rewritten into different tenses. Are you ready?
Look at the gaps in the following sentences. Can you write one of the following words in each gap to make the sentence correct?
Look at the gaps in the following sentences. Can you write one of the following words in each gap to make the sentence correct?
Look at the following sentences. Can you choose a verb from this list to put in each gap?
Look at the gaps in the following sentences. Can you write one of the following words in each gap to make the sentence correct?