Category: General Primary
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Free Resource Friday: Anagrams
I love using anagrams as a warm-up for English and verbal reasoning sessions with my tutees. These questions simultaneously test a child’s understanding of vocabulary in context and their recognition of common English spelling patterns; they also prove to be an engaging way to get children thinking about words! This free 11+ anagrams resource provides…
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Free Resource Friday: Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. There are dozens in English and many of them are high frequency words that we use every day. 11+ pupils need to know how to spell them for their English papers, but also need to recognise them in verbal reasoning tests.
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Free audiobook guide: The Boy at the Back of the Class
I loved teaching Onjali Raùf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class to my Year 5 group. When an empty chair is taken by Ahmet, the narrator thinks he’s a little strange, not least because he doesn’t like sherbet lemons! But the more that the narrator and her friends learn about Ahmet, the more…
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Free 11+ Study Guide: Summer Holidays Week 2
The second instalment of my free 11+ study guide is here with quick and focused free quizzes and answers included to keep your child on track over the summer holidays.
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Free Audiobook Guide: Goodnight Mister Tom
Good stories about friendship, loss, adventure and growing up are timeless, and Goodnight Mister Tom is no exception. It is currently free to listen to with a Spotify Premium subscription, and this free audiobook guide will help you support your child’s English skills whilst listening along.
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Free Resource Friday: Ratio and Proportion
Ratio, proportion and scale factor make frequent appearances in both 11+ and SATs papers. This handy guide will help your child understand the difference between them, how to find the simplest form, and how to convert a ratio into a fraction. There’s an answer sheet included and an optional online quiz for them to cement…
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Free Audiobook Guide: The Nowhere Emporium
The Nowhere Emporium is well and truly open for business. As part of a series of free resources to support your child’s reading this summer, this audiobook guide will help them to explore key themes, analyse figurative language, and plan their own sensory description. It might be almost a decade old, but Ross MacKenzie’s The…
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Free Resource Friday: Parts of Speech
Do you know your nouns from your pronouns? Do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Have you got any idea what an antecedent is? We use these key parts of speech every time we open our mouths, but that doesn’t make remembering their names any easier. Refresh your child’s memory with this quick guide.…
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