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Year 2 Spelling Rules: Explore Spelling Village with Quill
Learn the Year 2 spelling rules, from silent letters to -tion and homophones, by sorting, building and fixing…
Parenthesis: Brackets, Dashes and Commas on a Word Train
Learn how to use parenthesis with brackets, dashes and commas, then add extra information to sentences by cou…
Letter Formation: Trace and Write with Squiggle the Snail
Learn letter formation: where each letter starts and which way to go. Trace, then write lower-case and capita…
Year 1 Handwriting: Trace Letters and Digits with Poppy
Learn Year 1 handwriting: hold a pencil well, start each letter in the right place and form capitals and digi…
Joined Handwriting: Learn the Joins with Loopy the Pencil
Learn joined handwriting with diagonal and horizontal joins, which letters stay unjoined and how to write nea…
Possessive Apostrophes: Fix the Signs in Apostrophe Town
Learn possessive apostrophes for one owner and many, like the girls’ coats and the children’s coats, by label…
Year 5 and 6 Spelling Words: Sail the Spelling Isles
Learn the 100 Year 5 and 6 spelling words using word roots, word origins and memory tricks, then type them in…
Year 1 Spelling Rules: A Garden Adventure with Bea
Learn Year 1 spelling rules, from ff, ll, ss, zz and ck to –s, –es, –ing, –ed and un–, by building words with…
Figurative Language: Paint Word Pictures with Quill
Learn figurative language: spot similes, metaphors and personification, then explain their effect on the read…
Alphabet and Alphabetical Order: Bea's Alphabet Garden
Learn letter names and alphabetical order from A to Z, then fill a rainbow, load a letter train and use lette…
Perfect Tense: Solve Time Cases with Tock the Owl
Learn the perfect tense, from has finished to had seen, and use it to show time, cause and links between para…
Verb Prefixes and Suffixes: Build Verbs in Gizmo's Workshop
Learn verb prefixes and suffixes: make verbs with –ate, –ise and –ify, change them with dis–, de–, mis–, over…
Determiners for Year 4: Ride the Determiner Express
Learn what determiners are, from a, an and the to my, some and every, by building word trains and spotting de…
Commas for Clarity: A Theatre Where Sentences Come Alive
Learn how commas make meaning clear and avoid ambiguity, by dragging commas into sentences and watching a the…
Colons, Semi-colons and Dashes: Bridge the Clause Islands
Learn how to use colons, semi-colons and dashes between clauses and in lists. Build punctuation bridges betwe…
Formal and Informal Language: Swap Hats with Mina
Learn formal and informal language: swap chatty words for formal ones, spot question tags, use If I were and…
The Subjunctive Form: Help Percy Speak Like Royalty
Learn the subjunctive form, from If I were you to Were they to come, by helping Percy the parrot turn chatty…
Speaking Skills: Shine on Stage with Echo the Microphone
Learn speaking skills: plan a talk, explain clearly and keep listeners hooked as you perform to a live cartoo…
Word Classes: Sort Every Word with Dot the Robot
Learn the eight word classes, from nouns and verbs to determiners and conjunctions, by sorting word parcels i…
Nursery Rhymes and Rhyming Words: Sing with Ruby the Robin
Learn nursery rhymes and rhyming words: hear which words rhyme, feed rhymes to Freddie the frog and learn Twi…
Writing Instructions: Help Bolt the Robot Follow Your Steps
Learn how to write instructions with titles, command words, time words, headings and diagrams, then test your…
Formal Letter Writing: Quill's Post Office Adventure
Learn formal letter writing: pick a formal or informal tone, then help Quill the owl write letters of request…
Synonyms and Antonyms: A Word Islands Adventure
Learn synonyms and antonyms, from big and large to big and little, by sailing round Word Islands, building br…
Phonics Digraphs: Two Letters, One Sound with Pip
Learn phonics digraphs such as sh, ch, ai and igh. Drag letters into teams, tap sound buttons and blend words…
Tricky Words for Reception: Read with Pip the Robin
Learn to read the tricky words the, I, to, no and go, spot the tricky part of each, then read sentences and a…
Digraphs and Trigraphs: A Letter Teams Island Adventure
Learn digraphs and trigraphs like ay, oy, ir and are, plus split digraphs, by joining letter teams, popping s…
Year 2 Common Exception Words: An Island Word Hunt
Learn to read and spell the Year 2 common exception words by spotting each tricky part, waking silent letters…
Homophones: An Island Adventure with Echo the Parrot
Learn how to choose the right homophone, from heard or herd to practice or practise, by solving word puzzles…
Commas and Speech Punctuation: All Aboard the Comma Express
Learn commas and speech punctuation for Year 4: commas after fronted adverbials and inverted commas, by punct…
Year 2 Suffixes: Build New Words with Toots the Train
Learn Year 2 suffixes like –ness, –ful, –less, –er, –est and –ly by coupling word carriages onto Toots the tr…
Linking Paragraphs: Build Bridges in Link Lagoon
Learn how linking paragraphs works: build cohesion with firstly, then, this, later, nearby and had by laying…
Subject, Verb and Object: A Sentence Theatre Show
Learn to find the subject, verb and object in a sentence, switch active to passive and make verbs agree, by d…
Writing Letters and Emails: Plan with Pip the Post Pigeon
Learn the skills behind writing letters and emails: spot the reader and reason, name each part, then discuss…
Hyphens and Bullet Points: Fix the Signs at Hyphen Harbour
Learn to use hyphens and bullet points correctly in Year 6 English: fix a man eating shark sign, tidy messy n…
Year 2 Phonics: Blend, Read and Spell on Word Island
Learn Year 2 phonics: blend new words, try alternative sounds, read long words and suffixes, and spell with n…
Year 2 Homophones: Sound-Alike Island with Echo
Learn the Year 2 homophones, from see and sea to there, their and they're, by tapping scenes and spelling wor…
Prefixes and Suffixes: Build Words in Tink's Workshop
Learn prefixes and suffixes like –cious, –tious, –able, –ible, –ant and –ent, then build, split and spell wor…
Apostrophes: Missing Letters and Belonging with Posy
Learn how apostrophes show missing letters (can't, I'll) and belonging (the girl's book) by squashing words,…
Fronted Adverbials: All Aboard the Sentence Train
Learn how to start sentences with fronted adverbials that say when, where or how, then build sentence trains…
Year 1 Punctuation: A Park Adventure with Dot the Full Stop
Learn Year 1 punctuation: capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. Fix sentences an…
Relative Clauses: All Aboard the Relative Railway
Learn how relative clauses add information with who, which, where, when, whose and that by hooking word carri…
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs: Jobs in Word Park
Learn what nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are and the job each does in a sentence, by building, waking…
Expanded Noun Phrases: Paint Picture Town with Words
Learn how expanded noun phrases describe and specify, like the blue butterfly, by dragging describing words t…
Progressive Tense: She Is Drumming, He Was Shouting!
Learn the progressive tense: use is, am, are, was and were with -ing words, by making characters act in a par…
Expanded Noun Phrases: Hoot's Parcel Post Adventure
Learn how to build expanded noun phrases with adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases by writing exact parc…
Modal Verbs and Possibility: The Maybe-Meter Game
Learn how modal verbs like might, should, will and must, and adverbs like perhaps and surely, show possibilit…
Prefixes and Suffixes: Year 1 Word Workshop with Pip
Learn Year 1 prefixes and suffixes: add s, es, ing, ed, er and est, and use un, by dragging tiles onto words…Show more 48 of 64
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