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These literacy worksheets include literacy activities and literacy learning games. The key stage 1 worksheets and key stage 2 literacy worksheets help to enhance your child’s learning. Our free literacy resources include downloadable worksheets that help your child extend their vocabulary, look at words in different ways, write in different styles, and understand the rules of grammar and punctuation.
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Learning worksheet - Planning
This download encourages your child to improve their handwriting skills by writing directions.
English worksheet - House for sale
This download will help your child to choose words carefully by looking at examples of house details from an estate agent
Learning at home - Writing for myself
This great download is great for learning at home, it will encourage your child to practice writing skills, helping to improve handwriting and spelling.
Key Stage 1 worksheet - Guessing game
This Key Stage 1 worksheet will help your child to sustain concentration, choose words with precision, to listen carefully and to organise what they say.
Kid's activity - Poetry prose
This fun kid's activity will help your child extend their vocabulary and to look writing prose and poetry in different ways.
Literacy worksheet - My favourite TV programme
This literacy worksheet will help your child to practise writing by remembering things he or she has seen.
Literacy worksheet - The poet's notebook
This literacy worksheet will help your child to look at words in different ways and discover words they have not used before.
Literacy worksheet - Can I play with you?
This literacy worksheet will help your child develop their writing skills and help them understand the difficulties facing wheelchair users.
Poetry word games
This great word game helps children get familiar with all aspects of poetry including rhyming and alternative patterns.
Free English worksheets - Seeing the other way
This free English worksheet will help your child to write a balanced report on a controversial issue and summarise fairly the competing views.
Primary worksheets - How to argue
This primary worksheet will help your child to construct an effective argument and develop a point logically and anticipate objections.
Literacy worksheets - This is your life!
This literacy worksheet will help your child to develop information gathering skills and develop the skills of autobiographical writing.
English worksheet - The great debate
This English worksheet will help your child to construct an argument in note form to persuade others of a point of view and present a point of view to their class.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - What's your point?
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to draft and write letters for real purposes and comment on an emotive issue.
Free worksheets - Did you know?
This free worksheet will help your child to plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports and explanatory texts, using reading as a source, focusing on clarity, conciseness, and impersonal style.
English worksheets - Tell the world!
This English worksheet encourages your child's imagination by asking them to create their very own advertisement.
Comprehension worksheets - I believe!
This comprehension worksheet will help your child practice assembling and sequencing points in order to plan the presentation of a point of view, eg. on hunting, school rules.
Free worksheets - News just in!
This free worksheet will help your child to recount an event in the form of a news report and understand the way language is used in this format.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - Playing the game
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to practice writing intructions eg. rules for playing games, recipes, using a range of organisational devices, eg. lists, dashes and commas for lists in sentances.
Primary worksheets - The way to...
Part of our series of primary worksheets, this download will help your child to work on writing simple instructions.
Grammar worksheets - Letters
Practice writing simple recounts linked to a personal experience with this grammar worksheet
Reading and writing - Insect Riddles
This reading and writing worksheet explores tongue twisters and riddles
Phonics worksheets - Alphabet dinners
Alphabet Dinners, part of our series of phonics worksheets, will help your child to practise and score alphabetic letter knowledge and alphabetic order.
English worksheet - Global eye
This english worksheet will help your child write a balanced report of a controversial issue.
Writing worksheets - Local people are concerned
This writing worksheets will help your child to plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports.
Writing worksheet - Something to say
This writing worksheet will help your child to present a point of view in writing eg. in the form of a letter.
Printable work sheets - Which way do I go
This printable work sheet will help your child communicate in different ways.
Free English worksheets - Here's How!
This free English worksheet will help your child to communciate clearly without using words and think about the needs of others.
Worksheets - Would you rather?
This worksheet will help your child to develop and interest in reading and books.
Literacy worksheets - Acrostics
This literacy worksheet will help your child to write an acrostic poem.
Writing worksheets - Loony Limericks
This writing worksheet will help your child to investigate rhyme and humorous verse and write a limerick
KS2 worksheets - My favourite poem
This KS2 worksheet will help your child to think about and describe the poetry they most enjoy and describe why they like it.
Learning games - Mighty Metaphors
This learning game will help your child begin to understand the difference between a similie and a metaphor, and put them to use in descriptive writing.
Writing worksheets - Personification
This writing worksheet will help your child to improve their descriptive writing and develop their use of metaphor.
Literacy worksheets - Riddling Rhymes
This literacy worksheet will help your child to use and develop different techniques of writing descriptive language.
Reading and writing - Kennings
This reading and writing activity will help your child to practise using few words to create a highly descriptive account.
Free worksheets - To Be You
This free worksheet will help your child to use their imagination about their everyday experiences to write a poem.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - The Magic Door
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child write a poem.
English worksheets - Sounds Alive!
This english worksheet download will help your child to use rhythm in words and movement to present a poem to an audience.
Grammar worksheets - Similes
This grammar worksheet will help your child to understand similes and develop their writing.
KS2 worksheets - It's all lies!
This ks2 worksheets will help your child to choose adjectives and verbs for best effect in imaginative descriptive writing.
Literacy worksheets - Body Listening
This literacy worksheet will help your child to experiment with a range of words, choosing those that create the best effect in a poem.
Fun with phonics - What a lot of Weather!
This fun with phonics activity will help your child to make patterns of sounds to create effects.
Reading and writing - Patchwork poems
This reading and writing activity will help your child to explore and play with words and use an easy format for writing fun poetry.
Learning games - Guessing Game
This learning game forms part of the English curriculum. It will develop understanding of speaking and listening skills.
National curriculum - In the swim?
This national curriculum activity will improve your child's speaking and listening skills.
Listening activities - Can you see with your ears?
This listening activity will improbe your child's speaking and listening skills.
Learn to read - Sharing a picture book
If you want to help your child learn to read, the answer is simple. Read to her yourself. Reading at home gives children a head start when they get to school.
Free printable worksheets - Obstacle course
This free printable worksheet encourages children to create an obstacle course. This activity is for you and your child to do together. Please let him/her take the lead.
National curriculum - Exercises
This national curriculum activity will encourage children to take part in various exercises.
Writing worksheets - Capital Letters
This writing worksheet will help your child to recognise and use capital letters
Free worksheets - Punctuation
This free worksheets will help your child to punctuate a sentence correctly.
Grammar worksheets - Verbs
Grammar worksheets will help your child to learn that a verb is a doing word and practise using them in sentences.
English worksheets - Holiday Brochure
This english worksheet will help your child to identify the main features of this type of publication.
ks2 worksheet - Reading
This ks2 worksheet will help children use their knowledge of the alphabet to find information in books.
Spelling test - Spelling
This spelling test will help your child spell simple words correctly and make sensible guesses at more difficult ones.
Cursive handwriting - Pencil patterns
This cursive handwriting activity will help your child to practise basic letter shapes and develop a fluent style by tracing and copying patterns.
English worksheet - No comment
This english worksheet will provide an opportunity to listen attentively and to evaluate critically the speaking skills of someone who is recognised as a skillful speaker.
Literacy worksheets - Commentating
This literacy worksheet forms part of the English curriculum. It will develop understanding of speaking and listening skills.