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Important update from TheSchoolRun
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Ks1 English worksheets
Free worksheets: Word puzzles, KS1
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Square words wordsearch
Can you find all these Goldilocks-themed words in the wordsearch?
Mini word Sudoku 4 x 4
Put the letters from the word EASY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.
Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle
Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?
Homophones wordsearch
Can you find these homophone pairs hidden in the wordsearch below?
Spelling patterns: silent letters w and k
A Year 2 English wordsearch created by a teacher, which focuses on the silent letters w and k. Examples and answers are included.
Looking for the silent letter
Help your child learn tricky spelling words with this worksheet. Can they use the words in sentences of their own afterwards?
Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’ (Phase 5 phonics)
Use this worksheet to help your child recognise the grapheme 'ea', representing the /e/ sound, and then use those words in the sentences provided.
Giving instructions
Help your child understand how instructions are ordered by having them fill in the blanks on this worksheet to complete the recipe.
Reading the /ee/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
This activity will enable your child to recognise the /ea/ sound, which can be represented by a number of different graphemes, and practise reading and writing it.
Use onomatopoeia in poetry
This fun with phonics activity will help your child to make patterns of sounds to create effects.
Recognise the shapes of words
This worksheet encourages children to look at the shape of words to help them with their spelling.
Reading non-fiction books
Encourage your child to take out a non-fiction book from the library. These questions will prompt them to look for and use the features of the book, such as blurb and contents.
Find the rhyming words
Can you find all the words that rhyme with 'right'? An excellent activity to help your child practise listening carefully to see if a word rhymes.
Explore and play with words
This Key Stage 1 reading and writing activity will help your child to explore and play with words and use an easy format for writing fun poetry.
Rhyming words
Encourage your child to read this poem out loud and then look for the rhyming words.
Sorting sentences
Encourage your child to think about how sentences are structured, by getting them to sort these sentences into those with one piece of information and those with two pieces of information.
Choose 'ee' or 'ea' (Phase 5 phonics)
Sometimes the same sound can be written in different ways. This sheet enables children to choose when to use the grapheme 'ee' and when to use the grapheme 'ea' to represent the sound /ee/, as part of a colouring activity
Understand the concept of time
This worksheet activity will help your child to understand how long a second and a minute are and use their knowledge to write simple poetry.
Singular and plural
This worksheet consists of singular and plural names of animals that children need to match up.
Acrostic adjectives
This poetry worksheet encourages your child to experiment with adjectives used to describe someone in order to write an acrostic poem / puzzle.
Writing a letter to a friend or relative
This grammar worksheet will help your child to practise writing simple letters linked to a personal experience.
What is a sentence?
This worksheet gives sentences that need correcting with regards to word order or punctuation.
Tricky words memory game
Use this memory game to help your child to remember the spellings of some tricky high frequency words.
Alliteration: make up your own rhymes
This worksheet covers work from the KS1 English curriculum and will help your child to understand and use alliteration.