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For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

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  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

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Grammar worksheets

Finding the subject, verb and object in sentences worksheet

Finding the subject, verb and object in sentences

Emmanuel has just been to the circus. He has written various sentences about his time there. Can you identify the subject, verb and object in each one? Underline the subject in green, the
verb in purple and the object in orange.
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Find the subject and object worksheet

Find the subject and object

These sentences contain a subject, verb and object. Underline the subject in green, the verb in purple and the object in orange.
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Active or passive worksheet

Active or passive?

See if you can turn these active sentences into passive sentences.
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Active and passive sentences worksheet

Active and passive sentences

A Year 4 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child understand active and passive voice, with examples.
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Writing task: using similes and metaphors

Writing task: using similes and metaphors

Look at this picture of a lake at night. Write some descriptive notes about all the elements you can see (and imagine!). Be as descriptive and imaginative as you can. Now can you turn any of these descriptions into similes or metaphors?
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Writing task: using hyperbole and personification

Writing task: using hyperbole and personification

Look at this picture of a haunted house. Write some descriptive notes about all the elements you can see (and imagine!). Be as descriptive and imaginative as you can. Remember to imagine exploring the
haunted house with your senses (sight, sound, touch and smell) to decide what to describe. Now, can you improve these descriptions using hyperbole or personification?
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Rhetorical questions worksheet

Rhetorical questions

A rhetorical question is one that we ask without expecting an answer, either because it has an obvious answer or because we have asked the question to make a point, to persuade or for literary effect. Now see if you can write a conversation between a teacher and a child. Make sure you include questions, some rhetorical and some not.
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Identifying onomatopoeia worksheet

Identifying onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like the noise it describes. Can you write a poem using onomatopoeia? Here are some subjects that you could choose from.
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Connectives exercise worksheet

Connectives exercise

Connectives are words that join two parts of a text. Look at this passage and use some of the connectives in the table to fill in the gaps.
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Antonyms worksheet

Antonyms

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. See if you can pair each word below with its opposite. You may need to use a dictionary to check some definitions
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Using I and me in sentences worksheet

Using I and me in sentences

The two personal pronouns I and me are often used incorrectly. Find out when to use each one and then correct the sentences.
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Writing compound words worksheet

Writing compound words

A compound word is a word that is made up of two smaller words, for example: play + ground = playground. These compound words have been cut in half and jumbled around. Can you cut these words out and match up each purple half with the correct green half?
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Homographs explained worksheet

Homographs explained (Phase 5 phonics)

Cut out these homographs. Can you think of two different meanings for each word? Now have a go at writing your own sentences using these homographs
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Writing direct speech worksheet

Writing direct speech

Here is a helpful frame to remind you how to put together direct speech. Can you write your own direct speech sentences?
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The present tense worksheet

The present tense

Here is a list of past tense phrases. Can you write the correct present tense? Be careful, some of the verbs are irregular...
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Full stops challenge: The Story Game

Full stops challenge: The Story Game

Each player collects parts of sentences as they go round the board then, when you get to the end, see who can write the best story using just the parts you've collected.
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Full stop tower game

Full stop tower game

Climb the full stop tower by correctly placing the full stop in sentences.
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Direct speech Game

Direct speech Game

The aim of the game is to make a full sentence containing direct speech. You move around the board collecting game cards based on the colour you land on. The first person to make a complete sentence wins.
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Changing verb tense from past to present worksheet

Changing verb tense from past to present

Look at this passage about a playful cat. Can you change all the verb tenses from the past tense to the present tense?
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Spelling patterns: the prefix sub-

Spelling patterns: the prefix sub-

A prefix is a string of letters added to the beginning of a root word, changing its meaning. Each prefix has a meaning; sub- means ‘under’. Cut out the following words and definitions. See if you can match each words to its definition.
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