Year 2

This activity gives children the chance to practise recognising and using nouns in different ways. Tasks include writing their own nouns, identifying nouns in a word list and completing sentences with appropriate nouns. This is a flexible activity that can… Read More »Nouns Objective Starters

This activity helps children practise recognising and using expanded noun phrases to add detail and description to their writing. Pupils are asked to create their own expanded noun phrases, complete sentences by adding adjectives and underline examples within given sentences.… Read More »Expanded Noun Phrases Objective Starters

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