This activity helps children practise recognising and using adverbs to add detail to their writing. Pupils are asked to match adverbs with verbs, circle adverbs in word lists and complete sentences using appropriate adverbs. They also get the chance to… Read More »Adverbs Objective Starters
This activity helps children learn how two smaller words can be joined together to make a new word, such as ‘snowman’ or ‘toothbrush’. Pupils are asked to spot compound words, match pictures to words, complete sentences and underline examples in… Read More »Compound Words Objective Starters
This activity helps children practise two key skills at once: recognising where capital letters are needed and adding full stops to mark the end of sentences. Pupils are asked to circle words that need capital letters, rewrite sentences correctly and… Read More »Capital Letters and Full Stops Objective Starters
This activity is designed for children to practise recognising and using contractions correctly. The task gives pupils the chance to join two words together to form contractions, identify and correct missing apostrophes and spot errors in sentences. These are a… Read More »Apostrophes for Contraction Objective Starters
This activity helps children practise using apostrophes to show possession. Pupils are asked to add in missing apostrophes, rewrite sentences as possessive phrases and spot incorrect uses. The tasks give plenty of opportunity to recognise when an apostrophe is needed… Read More »Possessive Apostrophe Objective Starters
This activity helps children practise forming and recognising the past progressive tense. Pupils complete tasks such as circling the correct verb form, identifying sentences written in the past progressive tense and rewriting sentences to show an action that was happening… Read More »Past Progressive Tense Objective Starters
This activity helps children practise recognising and forming the present progressive tense. The tasks guide pupils to spot sentences in the present progressive, circle the correct verb forms and rewrite sentences to show actions happening now. It is ideal for… Read More »Present Progressive Tense Objective Starter
This activity helps children practise adding the common suffixes ‘er’, ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ to root words. Pupils are asked to complete sentences, circle the correct option and rewrite words with each suffix. Tasks like these build spelling confidence and show… Read More »Suffixes ‘er’, ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ Objective Starters
This activity is designed to help children understand when and how to use question marks correctly. Pupils will practise spotting mistakes, deciding whether sentences need a full stop or a question mark and writing their own questions. The task encourages… Read More »Question Mark Objective Starters
This activity helps children practise using the suffixes ‘er’ and ‘est’ to compare and describe. Pupils are encouraged to spot mistakes, decide which sentences are correct and then complete sentences by adding the correct ending. The tasks build an understanding… Read More »Suffixes ‘er’ or ‘est’ Objective Starters
