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Column words: verbs

Column words: verbs

Can you place the words in the correct rows in the grid so that the shaded column spells out another verb?
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Column words: adjectives

Column words: adjectives

Can you place the words in the correct rows in the grid so that the shaded column spells out another adjective?
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Animal anagrams

Animal anagrams

The letters in these boxes have been mixed up. Can you unjumble them to find the name of an animal?
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Anagrams: countries in Europe

Anagrams: countries in Europe

The letters in the boxes have been mixed up. Can you unjumble them to find the name of a country in Europe?
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Spelling patterns: the suffix -phobia matching puzzle

Spelling patterns: the suffix -phobia matching puzzle

The suffix ‘phobia’ means ‘fear’. Look up these words in the dictionary and find out what fear they relate to, then match them correctly. Copy out each word to practise spelling it. What other unusual phobias can you discover?
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Great grammar games learning pack

Great Grammar Games

From proper nouns to pronouns, statements to subordinate clauses and articles to adverbs, help your child revise grammar the fun way with our Great Grammar Games learning pack. A friendly, grammar- and flamingo-obsessed Grammar Gator offers tips, tricks, exercises and activities to help your child practise all aspects of basic English grammar in play-packed sessions.
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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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Irregular plural nouns wordsearch

Irregular plural nouns wordsearch

See if you can find all the irregular plural nouns for the following words hidden in this teacher-created wordsearch. You may need to look some of them up in the dictionary.
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Simple suffix wordsearch

Simple suffix wordsearch

Circle the common suffixes (word endings) in these words in RED. Circle the ‘root word’ (the main part of the word) in BLUE. Now can you find the words in the wordsearch?
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Homophones wordsearch

Homophones wordsearch

Can you find these homophone pairs hidden in the wordsearch below?
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Contractions memory game worksheet

Contractions memory game

When we shorten two words into one, the missing letter or letters are replaced by an apostrophe to form the contracted word. Practise matching words with their contracted form with this contractions memory game.
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One more, one less crossword

One more, one less crossword

Can you fill in the crossword by writing the answers to the clues as number words?
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/Sh/ and /ch/ words Snap

/Sh/ and /ch/ words Snap (Phase 3 phonics)

A free Phase 3 phonics game created by an experienced teacher to help your child practise their Phase 3 phonics learning. This printable activity covers /Sh/ and /Ch/ words in a simple game of Snap.
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Wordsearch: the /oo/ sound

Wordsearch: the /oo/ sound (Phase 3 phonics)

Look at the /oo/ words below. Can you read them out loud? These words are all jumbled up in this wordsearch. Can you find them? Put a tick next to each word that you find.
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Missing CVC words game

Missing CVC words game (Phase 2 phonics)

Some of these words match some of the pictures. Match up the ones that you can. Which words are missing? Can you write them?
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Initial sounds: g and k

Initial sounds: g and k (Phase 2 phonics)

Can you be a letter detective and spy the sounds /g/ and /k/ in this box? Colour the ‘g’s in red and the ‘k’s in blue. Then match the pictures to the sound that they begin with and colour the pictures in.
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Spelling patterns: the suffix -ful

Spelling patterns: the suffix -ful

We use the suffix -ful to make adjectives, but watch out – although the word ‘full’ has been put on the end of ‘hope’, the last l is dropped. Can you complete this table to show how words are changed by adding the suffix-ful? Then find all the words ending -ful above in this 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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Spelling patterns: the prefix bi- worksheet

Spelling patterns: the prefix bi-

Can you complete this mini-crossword? All the words you need start with the prefix bi- and are listed below. What do you think bi- means?
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Spelling patterns: ie and ei in a word

Spelling patterns: ie and ei in a word

i before e except after C – this spelling rule usually applies when spelling words with an -ie or -ei. Can you find these -ie and -ei words in the mini crossword?
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