Activities and Resources

Language and Literacy: Key Stage 2: Writing

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	Understanding where speech marks and commas are placed when writing speech.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation - Appreciating some of the differences between spoken and written language.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with B.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with C.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with D.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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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: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with M.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with S.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Using the library and other resources, making effective use of organisational information to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative language.
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	Making synonym pairs in a game of pelmanism.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. - Acquiring and growing a knowledge of phrases and words which can be recognised on sight. Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative vocabulary.
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	Exploring how words are formed from a root word, a prefix and a suffix.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading: - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Acquiring and growing a vocabulary of phrases and words which can be recognised on sight. Writing: - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation.
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	Identifying and classifying adverbs and grouping them by topic.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading: - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. Writing: - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation. - Writing creatively using imaginative vocabulary.
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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: KS2: Writing G: Use connectives appropriately to discuss their writing.
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	Exploring how different words can be made using roots and suffixes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading: - Discussing features of language and noting how words are spelled and constructed. - Acquiring and growing a vocabulary of phrases and words which can be recognised on sight. Writing: - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation.
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	Playing a game of pelmanism to make pairs of synonym words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading: - Disussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. - Acquiring and growing a knowledge of phrases and words which can be recognised on sight. Writing: - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Writing creatively using imaginative vocabulary.
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	Practising how apostrophes are used, and how words change when they are contracted, to make speech more natural.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading: - Discussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. Writing: - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation. - Acquiring and growing a vocabulary of phrases and words which can be recognised on sight.
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	This activity is the second of five levels which explore word order in sentences. In this activity, arrange sets of words idd this to your personal activity list Create, save and load your own versions
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Writing: Observe the conventions of writing, punctuation including grammar and syntax.
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	Exploring how narratives can be made more interesting by replacing 'said' with alternative synonyms.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. - Discussing texts, exploring the ways in which word meanings can be manipulated in order to persuade or amuse the reader or engage attention. Key Stage 2: Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation - Appreciating some of the differences between spoken and written language.
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	Exploring how narratives can be made more interesting by replacing 'said' with alternative synonyms.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. - Discussing texts, exploring the ways in which word meanings can be manipulated in order to persuade or amuse the reader or engage attention. Key Stage 2: Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation - Appreciating some of the differences between spoken and written language.
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	Exploring how narratives can be made more interesting by replacing 'said' with alternative synonyms.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Key Stage 2: Reading - Discussing and interpreting the texts they have read. - Discussing features of language and noting how words are constructed and spelled. - Discussing texts, exploring the ways in which word meanings can be manipulated in order to persuade or amuse the reader or engage attention. Key Stage 2: Writing - Experimenting with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure and all kinds of verbal play and dialect. - Developing increasing competence in the use of grammar and punctuation - Appreciating some of the differences between spoken and written language.
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