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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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  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

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Year 3 Creative writing and fiction worksheets

Free worksheets: Creative writing and fiction, KS2, Y3

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Speech marks practice

Speech marks practice

A KS2 literacy worksheet created by a primary-school teacher to help Year 3 children practise using speech marks correctly.

Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
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Writing an adventure story worksheet

Writing an adventure story

A Year 3 (KS2) creative writing worksheet made by a teacher to help your child practise using adjectives and powerful verbs when writing an adventure story.
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Describing a story setting worksheet

Describing a story setting

Emma had to describe a Victorian classroom and was given these success criteria by her teacher: remember to add adjectives; use capitals and full stops in the
right places; describe what you can see, hear, smell and feel. Has Emma done what her teacher asked?
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Adventure story starter worksheet

Adventure story starter

Mary was in bed, in a deep sleep. She was dreaming about eating a huge, delicious ice-cream. In her dream, she heard a tapping on the window. The tapping continued. After a few seconds, Mary began to wake up and realised the tapping wasn’t in her dream... What do you think happens next? Continue writing the story.
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Word puzzles for Key Stage 2 English learning pack

Word puzzles for Key Stage 2 English

Are you and your child tired of the same old English revision and practice sessions? Try something completely new and give them these fun English word puzzles instead! They'll review everything from connectives to apostrophes, using what they learn in class to solve codes, crosswords and wordsearches.
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Write your own kenning worksheet

Write your own kenning

Learn all about kennings: practise using just two words words to create a highly descriptive image.
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Boosting writing with powerful verbs worksheet

Boosting writing with powerful verbs

This activity will help your child identify powerful verbs and practise using them to improve their writing.
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Selecting interesting verbs worksheet

Selecting interesting verbs

This worksheet encourages children to think about the appropriate verb for a sentence and also to think about their own verbs.
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Design your own comic activity

Design your own comic

Looking for ways to help your child boost their literacy skills? Designing their own comic will help them with their handwriting, vocabulary, story-telling skills and more – and they won’t even realise they’re learning!
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