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Idea 281: FREE Poem Resource for Adding Suffixes to Words Ending with ‘y’, ‘Santa Contest’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a resource I made to teach the Year 2 National Curriculum statutory requirement: “Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it” where the guidance … Continue reading
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Tagged english, poem, poetry, spelling rules, suffixes, year 2
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Idea 276: FREE Poem Resource for Modelling Doubling Consonants When Adding Suffix, ‘Runner Bunny’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a short poem I put together that uses lots of examples from the National Curriculum to teach one of the statutory requirements listed for Year 2, namely “Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y … Continue reading
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Idea 275: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching Suffixes -ness, -ment, -ful, -less, -ly ‘Recipe for a Teacher’
DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE I saw a great idea for writing a recipe-type poem for friendship the other day as a way to evidence the ITAF 2017 statement that the pupil is “adding suffixes to spell some words correctly in … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, english, key stage one, ks1, poetry, primary, suffixes, year two
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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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Tagged elementary, english, literacy, poem, primary, year 2
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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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Tagged elementary, english, poetry, primary, SPaG, spelling, year 2
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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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Idea 246: Fun ‘Word Type’ Poetry Activity with FREE Downloadable Worksheet
This is a lesson I did based on a Pie Corbett idea. We’d already introduced nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs to the children but I felt they could use a lesson where they got to practise their knowledge. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged adjectives, adverbs, elementary, english, grammar, key stage one, literacy, nouns, primary, SPaG, verbs, word types, year 2
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Idea 244: Adverbs with ‘ly’ suffix challenge sheet
I taught a lesson introducing adverbs and began by focussing on adverbs with the ‘ly’ suffix, such as ‘gently’ or ‘slowly’, as this is one of the suffixes children are supposed to be using in Year 2. My lesson outline … Continue reading
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Tagged adverbs, english, grammar, SPaG, suffixes, word types
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Idea 233: ‘Improving Pairs’ and ‘Learning Lines’
A useful activity requiring no resources and little time that you can throw into any lesson to have children think about their learning and progress. The kind of activity that, if you have your children trained in advance, will look … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary, english, improve pairs, key stage one, key stage two, ks1, ks2, learning line, maths, plenary, primary, progress, secondary
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