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Category Archives: English
Idea 271: FREE Poem Resource for ‘or’ Sound Spelt ‘ar’. ‘Yeti War’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE Like poetry? Then consider buying a book of poetry by Michael Rosen, Steve Turner or Allan Ahlberg to read to your children.
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Idea 269: FREE Poem Resource for Spelling ‘J’ sound with ‘G’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE Like poetry? Then consider buying a book of poetry by Michael Rosen, Steve Turner or Allan Ahlberg to read to your children.
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Idea 265: FREE ‘All 4 Sentence Types’ Riddle Poems: 32 Examples!
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE There’s a great idea that has been doing the rounds recently on social media of using riddle poems as a way to have children use all four sentence types (statement, exclamation, command, question). I thought this … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, key stage one, poem, poetry, primary, sentence types, year 2
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Idea 264: FREE ‘Magic Word’ Poem Resource for ‘ur’ sound spelt as ‘or’ Spelling Pattern
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a poem I put together to highlight examples of words where the ‘ur’ sound like in ‘hurt’ is spelt with ‘or’ (word, work, worth, world). This is a Year 2 spelling pattern to be … Continue reading
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Idea 262: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching ‘Mother/Brother/Other’ Spelling Pattern
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This poem features lots of examples of the Year 2 spelling pattern of words where the ‘uh’ sound (like in ‘cut’) is spelt with an ‘o’. Suggested ideas for use: -Have children read the poem and … Continue reading
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Idea 260: FREE Poem Resource for ‘Wr’ Spelling Pattern and Teaching Re-Drafting
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a poem I put together that can be used for two purposes. Firstly, it shows the re-drafting process and how you can improve your writing by going back and checking things again. Secondly, it … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, key stage one, ks1, poetry, primary, redrafting, spelling, wr wpelling rule, year 2
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Idea 258: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching Contractions: ‘In Trouble’
After seeing how (unexpectedly!) popular my last poetry resource was, I’ve put together this poem to help with teaching apostophes for contractions (Working at Expected Level in Year 2!). Ideas for using this resource include: -Have children read … Continue reading
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Idea 256: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching SPaG Possessive Apostrophes ‘Wizard’s Spell’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a resource I created to help children learn about what can be a bit of a dry point of grammar. The poem features lots of examples of using a singular possessive apostrophe (which is … Continue reading
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Idea 250: SPaG Lesson on Questions: FREE Resources!
This would work well as a ‘refresher’ lesson for Year 2 (questions are one of the four question types Year 2 are supposed to be using) and makes sure children get chance to see the unusual word order found in … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, english, grammar, key stage one, primary, question marks, questions, SPaG, year 1, year 2
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Idea 249: Writing a Narrative with ‘The Pixar Formula’ including FREE RESOURCES!
Have you heard of the Pixar formula? Apparently, any story that is to be developed by the massively successful movie studio Pixar must follow a simple but incredibly effective formula. The formula is just six sentence starters: 1. Once upon … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, english, key stage 2, key stage one, ks1, ks2, literacy, primary, year 2, year 3, year 4
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