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Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
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Ks2 English worksheets
Free worksheets: Word puzzles, KS2
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Word split: compound words
A mix and match puzzle created by teachers, using compound words, to support primary school literacy and demonstrate examples of compound words.
Word colouring: nouns and pronouns
Colour the squares with nouns in green. Colour the squares with pronouns in brown. Leave the blank squares empty, then work out what the picture is.
Irregular past tense verbs wordsearch
A fun and free activity created by an experienced teacher with the aim of teaching KS2 children about irregular past tense verbs. Each of the sentences on the worksheet includes an incorrect past-tense verb. Circle the incorrect verb and then find the correct form of the verb in the wordsearch.
Spelling patterns: the prefix cir-
Can you complete this mini-wordsearch? All the words you need start with the prefix circ- and are below. What do you think circ- means?
Write your own homonyms crossword puzzle
Homonyms are pairs of words that are spelled and pronounced the same way, but have different meanings. Look at these words. Can you work out the two different meanings?
If not, look them up in the dictionary. On the next page you’ll need to create TWO crossword puzzles where the homonyms are the answers. Each word will need two different clues, one for each meaning.
If not, look them up in the dictionary. On the next page you’ll need to create TWO crossword puzzles where the homonyms are the answers. Each word will need two different clues, one for each meaning.
Spotting determiners in a text
Determiners tell us exactly which nouns are being referred to in a text. Here is a text about polar bears. Can you underline all the determiners?
Present perfect: writing your own sentences
We use the present perfect to talk about something that has happened in the past and is still happening in the present. Can you rewrite these sentence in the present perfect tense?
Present perfect: sorting sentences
We use the present perfect to talk about a past action that is continuous in to the present. Cut out these sentences. Can you organise them into the correct columns in the table?
Prepositional phrases
Prepositions tell you WHEN (before, after, during) or WHERE something is happening (under, to, up, in, on, through, beside, near). A prepositional phrase is a group of words containing a preposition and a noun. Can you underline the prepositional phrases in these sentences?
Matching sentences containing determiners
Determiners are words that go before a noun and tell you something about it. Look at the sentences on the left and the sentences on the right. Can you draw lines to match them up?
Identifying prepositional phrases
A prepositional phrase is a group of words containing a preposition and a noun. Prepositional phrases tell us more about a particular noun or verb. Look at this text about The Great Fire of London. Can you underline all the prepositional phrases in it?
Identifying noun phrases
A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun in a sentence. Underline these noun phrases in the sentences.
Identifying adverbial phrases
An adverbial phrase is a group of words (but no verb) that tells us when, how or where something is done. Using your knowledge of adverbial phrases, can you complete this chart?
Expanding noun phrases
A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun. Expand these noun phrases by filling the gaps with interesting, powerful words to make the sentences more descriptive.
Ellipsis and quotations
In a text we can use ellipsis (three dots) to show that something is missing. Here are some quotations from an interview with a children’s author. Re-write them using ellipsis.
Different types of determiners
Determiners help us understand which noun is being talked about. There are different kinds of determiner. Look at the sentences in the left-hand column. Can you underline the determiner in each sentence and write down what kind of determiner it is in the right-hand column?
Determiners: filling in the gaps
Determiners are words that come before a noun and specify which (or how many) nouns we’re talking about. Each of these sentences is missing determiners. Can you add in determiners that you think will make sense?
Dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses
Sometimes dashes are used to indicate a pause in sentences that contain two independent clauses. Look at these sentences and add in the dash where you think it should go in each one.
Dashes to link clauses
Sometimes dashes are used in sentences to link different clauses and indicate a pause or break in the flow of a sentence. Look at these sentences and write in a dash where you think it should go in each one.
Collective nouns
Can you match up the collective nouns on the left with the correct nouns on the right?
Choosing collective nouns
A collective noun is a noun used to refer to a group of things. Cut out all the blue and red cards. See if you can match the blue collective nouns to the red nouns.
Adverbial phrases: matching halves of sentences
An adverbial phrase is a group of words (without a verb) that tells us when, how or where something is done. If they are placed at the beginning of a sentence adverbial phrases are called fronted adverbials. Cut out all these sentence halves. The first set are fronted adverbials. Can you match them to the other half of the sentence?
Adverbial phrases in sentences
Adverbial phrases at the start of a sentence are called fronted adverbials. Cut out these sentence starters and see if you can match them with the correct adverbial phrases.
Key Stage 2 - 2015 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the English KS2 SATs, taken at the end of Year 6, with some revision and at-home practice. These complete Y6 SATs past papers from 2015 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.