English
English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils, therefore, who do not learn to speak, read and write fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make Fairy Bread
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Brush Your Teeth
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Onomatopoeia Poems Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of an onomatopoeia poem.
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Making Predictions with Pictures - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to make predictions when reading.
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Acrostic Poems Poster
A poster providing a definition and example of an acrostic poem.
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Sequencing Activity Cards
Use these fairytale activity cards to help your students understand sequencing.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'ow' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘ow’ sound.
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Reading Strategy Cards
Cards for reading groups to remind your students of the different reading strategies.
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Thinking and Relating Verbs Poster
A poster giving the definition and examples for thinking and relating verbs.
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Picnic Fractions Worksheet
An activity for students to use when learning about halves, quarters and eighths.
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Common and Proper Nouns Sort - Cut and Paste Worksheet
A sorting worksheet to practise identifying common and proper nouns.
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Synonym Poster
A poster showing the definition and examples of synonyms.
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Dressing Up A Sentence Activity
An activity to help encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing.
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Species Snapshot Worksheet - Honey Bees
A comprehension worksheet for a species snapshot magazine article about honey bees.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Lower Years Interactive PowerPoint
Review nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with this 44-slide interactive PowerPoint lesson.
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns - Sorting Task
A sorting task to help students learn the difference between common nouns and proper nouns.
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Prepositions Worksheet
A worksheet that explores the use of prepositions.
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Exploring Characters Posters
A set of 4 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Two, Too and To Homophones Poster
An educational poster for the homophones two, too and to.
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Writing An Information Report Poster
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of an information report.
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Letter to the Editor (Choosing Bedtime) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a letter to the editor from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Finding the Main Idea - Blank Template
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to find the main idea of a text.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – Long 'o' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'o' sound.
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Buy, By and Bye Homophones Poster Original Design
An educational poster for the homophones buy, by and bye.
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Earth Watch: Protecting Native Plants and Animals – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about ways to keep our native animals and plants safe.
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Animal Alliteration Activity - Brainstorming Template
A brainstorming template to use in the classroom when learning about alliteration.
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Verb Past Tense Worksheet
A worksheet with simple past tense verbs added to complete the sentences.
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Decodable Text Worksheets – Common Consonant Digraphs (Set 1)
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
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Capital Letter Correction Match-Up Activity
A cute activity where students edit sentences with capital letter puppets.
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Year 2 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 2 magazine.
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'For' and 'Against' Sorting Activity (Complete Set)
A set of 5 sorting activities to use when introducing students to the persuasive text type.
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Homophones Match-Up Activity
A set of flashcards showing some common homophones in words and pictures.