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Monster Phonics
Hit the Button Maths Game
Purple Mash
Mathletics
This organisation supports parents with children who have difficulty talking and understanding language.
Bookstart encourage parents and carers to enjoy books with children from as early an age as possible. They have very good ideas for helping develop early literacy skills.
Information, advice and campaigning organisation for people with autism.
World Book Day
Phonics Game
Oxford Owl is packed with expert advice, top tips and activity ideas so you can help your child with reading and maths.
Maths and English Games
Grammaropolis
Phonics Play
Building Vocabulary
We will be building our vocabulary through revision of word classes and learning about figurative language.
Word classes
Noun
The name of a person, place, object, thing, emotion or idea
www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/noun_phrases.htm
Common nouns
* do not need a capital letter
e.g. fish, table, sad, town, boy
Proper nouns
* do need a capital letter as they are the specific name of an individual
e.g. Robert, Stevenage, Lodge Farm
Pronoun
A word that can replace a noun
e.g. he, she, it, they, we, their, I, me, my
www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/pronouns.htm
Adjective
Describes a noun
e.g. beautiful, weary, sparkling, evil, stormy, cerise
www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/adjectives.htm
Verb
Is an action or state
e.g. danced, run, grin, whisper, yelled, became, am
www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/verbs.htm
Adverb
A word or phrase that adds more detail to an adjective, verb or another adverb
e.g. gently, swiftly, here, now, very, really
www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/adverbs.htm
Figurative Language
Simile
A way to describe things by comparing them to other things using the words as or like.
e.g. my teacher is as fierce as a dragon, the moon was like a silver coin
www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-language-examples/simile-examples/
Metaphor
Describing (comparing) one thing as if it is another. The noun becomes the compared object.
e.g. My teacher is a fierce dragon, the moon is a silver coin
www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-language-examples/metaphor-examples/
Personification
Describing something as having human feelings and actions
e.g. The trees danced in the gentle breeze, The angry rain thundered onto the rooftops
www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-language-examples/personification-examples/
Simile, metaphors and personification
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/reading/poetry/read/7/
Alliteration
When words which begin with the same sound are repeated close together in the same phrase or sentence
e.g. Wild winds whistled through the wintry woodlands
www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/poetic-devices/alliteration-examples/
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is when a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound
e.g. Plop! Whoosh! The bees buzzed outside, The metal machine clunked
www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/poetic-devices/onomatopoeia-examples/