KS2 Literacy Different types of words can be used to make your writing more interesting and easier to read. You need to know when to use them and how to spot them. In writing, words are grouped together into phrases, sentences, clauses and paragraphs. Use your commenting skills to identify what's wrong with these pieces of writing. When you are writing non-fiction it's important to use a style of writing that fits the subject.Use your knowledge of non-fiction writing to group the correct titles, text and pictures together. © v2vtraining.co.uk The Look, Say, Cover, Write & Check is a support tool for learning spellings using a trusted multi-sensory approach. This activity helps prove the rules of changing nouns from singular to plural. This is an activity targeted to Year 4 to help with medium frequency words. An updated version of the traditional word guess game. Use either one or two dice add your own words to the faces and roll them! This word sorting application is a simple to use grammar exercise.
Welcome to Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein Poet-to-Poet Project For National Poetry Month 2014, we introduced Poet-to-Poet, a multimedia educational project that invites young people in grades three to twelve to write poems in response to those shared by some of the award-winning poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors: Poet Laureate of California Juan Felipe Herrera, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Edward Hirsch, NEA and Guggenheim Fellow Jane Hirshfield, Lannan Foundation Fellow Naomi Shihab Nye, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Ron Padgett, Jackson Poetry Prize-winner Arthur Sze, and cofounder (with Allen Ginsberg) of the Naropa Institute Anne Waldman. We also worked with a curriculum specialist to design a series of activities, aligned with the Common Core for teachers to use in the classroom. go to the lesson plans
Riddles & Brainteasers Scientists get to solve puzzles every day, because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we are given. Just like with brainteasers (or brain teasers) and riddles, the answers to science mysteries are not always easy to see at first. With time and effort, they eventually become clear. But before solving the hundreds of brainteasers and riddles below, why not learn more about your brain by viewing the parts of the brain and what they do. And then have some fun with all our brainteasers and riddles below. We give you the answers for every one so you can check to see how well you did. Palindromes A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Not So Hard Riddles Warm up with some easy riddles. Tuff Stuff Riddles Some of these riddles are difficult Rebus Puzzles Word picture puzzles Frog Leap Brainteaser Help six little frogs get across their pond. Puzzling Proverbs New twists on old sayings Puzzling Numbers Numbers games
Prefixes Game There are five lists of prefix words with a total of 160 words. Ten words are selected at random from a selected list and then each word is split into the prefix and the root word. Pupils can then drag a word and a prefix into the box at the bottom of the screen. The word can then be checked to see if it is correct. Correct words are removed and incorrect ones are reset back into their original position. A list of all the words that are correctly identified is recorded and can be seen (and printed out) by clicking on Summary. This resource supports the following learning objectives from the National Literacy Strategy:
Jane Yolen — Author of children’s books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? » Poetry I have been a poet and a poetry lover all my life. My first poem (yes my mother kept it for years) was hardly any guarantee that I would ever become any good. I was in first grade: Bus, bus, wait for us, We are going to school And we know the rule. By the time I was in third grade, I had improved mightily. Where is the Candy Cane Island, Where in the world can it be? Lucky for all of us I have forgotten the rest. Poetry informed much of my growing up. In high school in Connecticut, I had poetry in the literary magazine. By then, I was under the tutelage of poet Anthony Hecht who was teaching at Smith, and I sent out my poems in batches of five to magazines across America. My father—who was in publishing and public relations—thought he knew better. Despite this, Lee Bennett Hopkins wrote to tell me that a year ago he was at NCTE and brought up my name for the Poetry Award. So here are some of my poems to give you an example of the range that can be found in children’s poetry. Duck Parade
Giggle Poetry Riddles for Spring see it clearly Springtime is one of the happiest times of the year, and a great way to celebrate when the birds begin chirping and the snow finally melts away is to tell a few riddles for spring to your friends. Here are a few to get you started (answers appear at the end of the page), as well as some information about why spring is a great season for riddles! Riddles for Spring April showers bring mayflowers, but what do Mayflowers bring? Why Tell Riddles in the Spring The reason that riddles for spring work so well is that the season is ripe (pardon the pun) for wit and cleverness. Moreover, because the name “spring” is itself open to interpretation, it’s easy to make your own riddles. Telling a Good Spring Riddle A mediocre riddle told very well is much better (and much funnier) than an extremely good riddle told poorly. When the time finally comes to tell your riddles for spring to your friends, launch into them without setting them up by saying “I have a riddle to tell you!” Pilgrims!
Celebrating World Poetry Day - TechNotes Blog - TCEA While I don’t consider myself a true poet, when I see that World Poetry Day is March 21, I feel the nostalgia of favorite poems from my past; to recite them, read them slowly and feel the emotions evoked, to enjoy the words on my tongue as a tasty morsel. Though my favorites are not ones that you study if you are an English major in college, they touched emotions in me. And isn’t that what we want to happen with our students in whatever content we teach – that they have an emotional connection to it? Poems on my list include Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein, and The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall by L. This year for World Poetry Day, regardless of what you teach, here are a few tools that you and your students can use to articulate your content in ways that tickle the ear and spark the imagination. iOS and Android Apps Diamante Poem – This type of poem is in the shape of a diamond. Poetry Websites Related comments