ELA Activities

Pizza Pop Up! This resource was developed to raise funds for a school trip. When asked what the children wanted to do to raise money for their trip, they moved away from the usual cake sale and stated that they wanted to make and sell pizzas. The...

The Tudors - a complete unit plan including resources for the teaching of this Ancient - European civilisation, including Henry VII, Henry VIII, War of the Roses, 6 wives and every day life. Upon purchase, you will receive a Zip file which contains 16...

As part of our work within developing the children's knowledge of Irregular verbs in the past tense, we developed a range of activities, including this one. Once we had introduced the spellings and meaning of irregular verbs and played a range of games,...

Following the publication of our five activities to support the teaching of irregular verbs in the past and present tense, we have included all five in a bundle to save you money. The bundle includes: Past and present tense irregular verb...

This loop game was devised by us to support our children develop a greater knowledge of prefixes used in everyday language - as well as preparing them for assessments in language. This loop game contains 32 prefixes and their associated root meaning...

As part of our curriculum teaching, we looked at the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Our children found it tricky to learn the names of the characters and work out who was related to who, who had done what to who (including before the play...

Word Classification Snap! We developed this game of Snap! for our children to play against one another using 9 different word classifications including: Nouns Prepositions Pronouns Modal Verbs Determiners Adverbs Verbs Adjectives Coordinating...

These word searches have been devised to support the language acquisition of children within 3rd, 4th and 5th grade (Y4, Y5 and Y6 UK) who need to know the classification of: verbs adverbs nouns and proper nouns adjectives modal...

Following our 5th Grade “Horror” unit in reading and writing, we had read a number of Goosebumps books from the Horror Land set. As a result, we wanted to explore with the children what similarities and differences there were between the...

These sets of 10 Comprehension questions have been devised with my class by using the book: "An Anthology of Aesop's Animal Fables - Unwitting Wisdom" by Helen Ward. (ISBN - 13: 978-1-84011-479-9) Published by Templar Publishing, www.templarco.co...

In teaching direct speech for the past ten years with 3rd, 4th and 5th grade pupils, most difficult thing for children when writing narratives, interviews, recounts and so on, is remembering all the features which ensure correct speech. For years, I...

As we developed our own Spelling Bee for Grades K - 5 four years ago (due to not being able to find anything on the market to accurately support our learners) we quickly found that the Spelling skills of our children were challenged and rapidly improved...