Activities and Resources

National Curriculum; English; Key Stage 2; Reading

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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with B.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with C.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with D.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with M.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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			Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Sorting out lots of names beginning with J according to the alphabetical order of the second letter.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	A matching pairs game with present and past forms of words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y2 T3 S3: to use standard forms of words in speaking and writing, e.g. catch/ caught, see/saw, go/ went and to use the past tense consistently for narration; Y3 T1 S4: to use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing e.g. catch/ caught, see/saw, go/ went etc. Use past tense consistently for narration. NC - KS2: En2: 1c: To read with fluency, accuracy and understanding, pupils should be taught to use [...] c) knowledge of grammatical structures.
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	Help to complete Sidney's diary by filling in the correct time words (later, first, then, after, while etc)		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T3 S6: To investigate through reading and writing how words can signal time sequences e.g first, then, after, meanwhile, from, where. NC English KS2 Language structure d: the purposes and organisational features of paragraphs, and how ideas can be linked.
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	Ordering names of imaginary potions in an alphabetical list.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS1 - Non fiction texts b) Using dictionaries.
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