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Extending vocabulary: synonyms
Can you think of some synonyms for these words? Synonyms are words with similar or identical meanings. You can look for synonyms in a special reference book called a thesaurus.
Favourite words collection
Can you think of great words or expressions to use in your writing? We’ve made some suggestions for you. What are your favourite words about your feelings? What are your favourite words to describe places? What about describing characters or actions?
High frequency words sentence challenge
Cut out this shape. Fold along the lines and stick down the flaps to make a cube. Roll the word die, then roll it again. Can you write a sentence with both of those high frequency words in? If you roll the same word twice, can you fit it into your sentence twice? Then write your sentences down.
Ordering instructions puzzle
Write instructions for something you know how to do, putting one instruction sentence in each box. Cut out the boxes and muddle them up. See if a grown-up can put them in the right order and work out what you have instructed them to do! Here are some words you might need: first; next; then; finally; after that.
Plot and setting in texts
Choose a book that you know really well. Re-read the story. Can you draw and write about the book in the boxes? The setting is the collection of places where your story happens. The plot is what happens in the story. Draw one of the settings from your story and something that happens in your story.
Putting names in alphabetical order
Write the name of one of your friends or someone in your family in each box, and draw a portrait of them. Can you cut the boxes out and put portraits in alphabetical order?
Reading and understanding non-fiction
Choose an information book. If you don’t have many at home, see if you can borrow one from school or the library. What is the title of the book? What are you hoping to find out about? What do you already know about this subject? Read the book and write a list of things you’ve found out:
Reading unfamiliar words using phonics
A KS1 worksheet of nonsense words, based on the National Curriculum and created by a phonics expert to get Year 1 children using their phonics skills to decode unfamiliar words.
These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
These robots have such funny names! Can you read them?
Rhyming words in poetry
Can you think of some words that rhyme? Write them down here then use some of them to write a little poem!
Sound buckets: using ‘ir’, ‘or’, ‘ar’ and ‘ur’ (Phase 5 phonics)
Choose a sound from two or three of the buckets and see how many words you can make.