Help your child prepare for the optional English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2024 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2023 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 2 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 1 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
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Help your child harness their imagination and share their stories in writing with our KS1 creative writing learning pack. Bursting with fill-in prompt sheets and inspiring ideas to get even the most reluctant writer started, it's the perfect way to encourage children aged 5 to 7 to put pen to paper.
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Onomatopoeia is when we want to describe a sound and we use a word that actually makes that sound. It can be used for water (splash, drip), air (whoosh, swish), a collision (bang, crash), voice (whisper,
murmur), animals (moo, tweet), vehicles (zoom, chuff). Cut out the words in the table below and see if you can work out where they should go:
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Alliteration is when we use words together that start with the same letter. These sentences are supposed to use alliteration, but they have the wrong words at the end! Match up the sentence starters with the
correct end word so that the sentences are alliterative.
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Think of two of your favourite animals. What would happen if they ran a race? Who would win in the end, and why? Write a story about it!
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Can you remember your first day back to school this year? How did you feel? Did you have a new teacher? Can you describe your teacher? What did you do on your first day? Did you make any new friends? Write a few sentences to describe what your first day was like.
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Imagine you are Goldilocks. What do you do in the three bears’ house? Write your own version of the story.
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What three wishes would you make if you found a magic lamp? Write them down here.
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Can you finish writing the story about the magic lamp? What do you think happened after Matthew went swimming? What do you think his other two wishes were? You'll need to do this worksheet first: http://www.theschoolrun.com/reading-comprehension-the-magic-lamp
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Imagine you have found a magical object in the garden. What is it? What happens when you touch it? Now write about what you've found – but don't forget to use adjectives, connectives, exclamation marks and question marks!
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Write about a time when you played or watched a football game. Use the word bank below to help you with spellings.
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Classic characters are unforgettable, whether they're falling down unusual rabbit holes, prowling through the jungle or breaking their slates over unfortunate classmates' heads. How many famous characters from children's literature can you identify in this crossword puzzle?
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Write some sentences about what you did at the weekend. Now write some interesting words you know from stories you’ve read. Go back to your sentences. Can you add some of the interesting
words into your news writing?
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A Year 1 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child plan a story by creating a spider diagram.
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Read the beginning of this story. What do you think happens next? Write and draw it!
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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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