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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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Year 5 English worksheets
Free worksheets: Word puzzles, KS2, Y5
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Shakespeare plays wordsearch
Challenge your KS2 child to a Shakespearean wordsearch. Can they find the titles of 14 of the Bard's famous plays hidden in the wordsearch grid?
Roald Dahl wordsearch
A fun Roald Dahl wordsearch for primary school children, created by a teacher and featuring the names of Roald Dahl's famous characters!
Witches, foxes, earthworms and more – they're all wonderful characters from Roald Dahl's books. See if you can spot the names of 20 children, villains and creatures from The BFG, Danny the Champion of the world, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other Dahl classics in this wordsearch. How quickly can you complete it?
Witches, foxes, earthworms and more – they're all wonderful characters from Roald Dahl's books. See if you can spot the names of 20 children, villains and creatures from The BFG, Danny the Champion of the world, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other Dahl classics in this wordsearch. How quickly can you complete it?
Easter crossword
Eggs, buns, flowers and bunnies - and chocolate, of course! Prepare for the school holidays by testing your knowledge of all things Easter-related with this quick crossword.
Mini word Sudoku 6 x 6
Put the letters from the word GRUMPY in the squares so that each column, row, and mini-grid contains all the letters that make up the word.
KS2 Easter activities pack
Get ready for some egg-y, chocolate-y, Easter-y fun! The KS2 Easter activities pack has plenty of themed maths, English and science learning opportunities to keep kids busy and learning over the spring break.
Festive fun activities for KS2
With Christmas lists to write, present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try this bumper pack of festive learning activities will keep your child engaged over the Christmas break.
Book reviews activity pack
Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
Using pronouns
Can you add the pronouns below into the gaps in this passage from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter?
Using formal and informal language
A formal letter and an informal letter has been cut up into pieces. Can you cut out the pieces and piece them back into two letters?
Revise subject and verb agreement and verb tenses
This passage is about how and why the ancient Egyptians mummified dead bodies. Some verbs are in bold. Look at the subject of each of these verbs and also think about the tense they should be in (you may want to read the passage a few times first). Can you change the verbs so that they agree with their subjects and the tenses are correct?
Changing verb tenses
Look at the following sentences. Each one needs to be rewritten into different tenses. Are you ready?
Reading comprehension: the bride
Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1861. In this passage the protagonist Pip visits an old lady who lives nearby, Miss Havisham. She was abandoned at the altar by the man she was about to marry and has spent the rest of her life indoors, still wearing her wedding dress.
Year 5 Cloze test: the ship in the storm
This is a passage from Swiss Family Robinson, a novel written in 1812 by Johann David Wyss. It is about a family that get shipwrecked and have to survive on a tropical island. It is written from the point of view of the father, William. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Year 5 Cloze test: the garden party
The Garden Party is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, written in 1922. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Year 5 Cloze test: meeting Miss Havisham
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens about the life of boy called Pip. In this passage, he has gone to visit an old lady who was abandoned at the altar by the
man she was about to marry. Miss Havisham has spent the rest of her life indoors, still wearing her wedding dress. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by
filling in one missing letter per box?
man she was about to marry. Miss Havisham has spent the rest of her life indoors, still wearing her wedding dress. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by
filling in one missing letter per box?
Reading comprehension: underwater parade
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley is about a chimney-sweep called Tom who falls into a river and becomes a water baby. Read this passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the ship wrecking
This is a passage from The Swiss Family Robinson, a classic novel about a family who get shipwrecked and have to survive on a tropical island. It is written from the point of view of the father, William. Read this passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the garden party
The Garden Party is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, written in 1922. This passage is about a family preparing for a party. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: shrinking to fit
In Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll a young girl falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. Read this passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: new home
Prelude is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, about a family who have moved into a new house. It was written in 1922. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: home to stay
Anne of Green Gables is a classic Canadian story about an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla, who adopt an orphan girl called Anne. In this passage, Anne is about to leave home and Marilla is considering selling their farm after her brother’s death. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: going down the rabbit hole
Alice in Wonderland, written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll, is a story about a girl called Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: foraging for food
This is an extract from Swiss Family Robinson, an 1812 novel about a family who are shipwrecked and have to survive on a tropical island. It is written from the point of view of the father, William. In this passage William and his oldest son, Fritz, are looking for food with their dog Turk. Read the passage and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: best friends
Anne of Green Gables, written in 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is the classic story of an orphan girl adopted by an elderly brother and sister. Read this passage about Anne making a new friend, Diana Barry, then answer the questions below.