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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…
Figurative Language: Paint Word Pictures with Quill
Learn figurative language: spot similes, metaphors and personification, then explain their effect on the read…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Commas in a List: A Market Adventure with Kit the Comma
Learn how to use commas in a list, with 'and' before the last item. Fill baskets, fix market signs and write…
Pronouns for Kids: Clear Writing Adventure in Pronoun Town
Learn when to use a noun or a pronoun, including possessive pronouns like mine and theirs, by fixing echoes,…
Active and Passive Voice: Showtime at the Voice Theatre
Learn active and passive voice: find the subject and object, then flip sentences around on a theatre stage wi…
Speech Marks: Catch the Words with Pip the Parrot
Learn how to use speech marks (inverted commas) to show what people say, by catching characters' words, traci…
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