This KS2 section is split into important aspects of the English curriculum including speaking and listening, handwriting and drama. Children also have the opportunity to take the online @school assessment tests to see how well they are doing with English.
The main part of English is literacy, consisting of Word Level including phonics, word recognition, spelling, dictionary work, and various texts; Sentence Level including grammar and punctuation, looking at adjectives, adverbs, capital letters, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, sentences, syntax, and verbs; Text Level including writing, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and different texts. The @school activities are in an interactive, online test, or printable format, bringing a different dynamic to the subject.
Alliterative List Poems - Interactive task about alliterative list poems.
Children’s Story Writing - Tips and information about writing stories
Creative Story Start - Print or view activity for you to create a story.
Dialogue – Year 3 - Interactive activities about dialogue in stories.
Fill in a Story - Select from three stories fill in the words and then read the story.
Forming an Opinion - A worksheet which will help form an opinion on a discussion.
Haikus and Cinquains – Year 4 - Learn how to write Haikus and Cinquains
Improving your writing - Online activities to improve your writing
Instructions – Features - Interactive and printable activities about writing instructions
Letter of Complaint - Online resources about writing a letter.
Letter Writing - Business Letters - Online activity about letter writing
Letter Writing - Personal Letters - Online activity about letter writing
Letters – Year 5 - Interactive and printable activities about writing letters.
Limericks – Introduction - Interactive and printable activities about limericks
Myths, Folktales and Fairytales - Writer’s workshops for story writing
Narrative Skills - Presentations and worksheets to help with writing
Newspaper Report – Introduction - Interactive and printable activities to write a newspaper report.
Paragraphs – Year 3 - Interactive activities to write stories in paragraphs.
Plays – Year 4 - Interactive and printable activities about writing play scripts.
Recipe Writing Frame - Use this printable sheet for writing your recipes.
Report Writing – Recycling - Interactive and printable tasks about writing a report about recycling.
Roller Coaster Ride - Use expressive language to describe a roller coaster ride
Settings – Year 3 - Interactive activities about story settings.
Settings - Year 4 - Interactive and printable activities to help you write descriptions of your own settings.
Similes - Interactive activity to create similes or make up some silly ones.
Story Pots - Use these printable pictures to help you create your stories.
Story Writing - Interactive activities to write a story
Supported Story Writing - A template to help write a story.
Traditional Tales - Interactive and printable activities about traditional stories.
Wacky Web Tales - Interactive site where you can create different stories by adding verbs, adjectives etc. - good fun!
Write Instructions - Interactive whiteboard activity about writing instructions
Writers Workshop - Be a writer! Send your essays or stories to Dositey.com.
Young Writers’ Workshop - Ideas to help young writers get started