English Group Activities Teaching Resources
A collection of classroom activities, games and worksheets to use in your class during English rotations. Rotation style group work can allow teachers to focus on particular areas of classroom development. Groups can be mixed-ability groups or academically like groups. These educational teaching and learning resources will help you plan out what group work will look, sound and feel like in your classroom.
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Year 3 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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Food-Themed Syllable Puzzle
A fun food-themed phonics activity for lower years that helps to develop syllable recognition.
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Beginning Sounds Sorting Activity
Practise identifying beginning sounds of words by sorting this set of 24 picture cards.
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Sentence Saga Literacy Activity (Silly Sentences)
Words and punctuation marks are jumbled everywhere. It’s your task to combine them into sentences that make sense!
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Year 4 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 1 of Teach Starter's Year 4 magazine.
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SPLAT! CVC Word Game
A set of 36 task cards to practise decoding and reading 3-letter words.
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Grammar Game - Name That Noun!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of nouns.
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Verb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of verbs.
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Adverb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of adverbs.
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Finger Twist Up - Phonics Game
A fun, engaging board game to consolidate students' understanding of blends and sounds.
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Adjective Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of adjectives.
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Ninja Race Phonics Game
A fun, engaging board game to consolidate students' understanding of digraphs and rhyme.
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Vowel Digraph Bingo
30 different bingo cards using vowel digraph graphemes.
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Consonant Digraph Bingo
30 different bingo cards using consonant digraph graphemes.
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Comprehension Strategies - Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 48 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when developing comprehension strategies.
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Monster Mash Grapheme Sorting Activity
A small group or individual sorting activity to consolidate the concept of different graphemes.
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Word Tile Total Activity - Uppercase
A fun activity that encourages students to think mathematically while developing their spelling skills.
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Story Building Dice Activity
A set of 3 dice to use when to generating ideas for creative writing.
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How Does It End? – Final Sounds Match-Up Activity
Consolidate your students' understanding of end sounds with this set of 15 task cards.
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Inference Car Classifieds - Worksheet
A series of car classifieds worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from written texts.
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Compound Words – Match-Up Activity
Build your students knowledge of compound words with this hands-on matching activity.
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Year 6 Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
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Comprehension Chatterbox
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.