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For English activities (including phonics) that we recommend for children with additional needs, SEND or EAL please see the link below.

Children with additional needs - SEND and EAL

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Scheme of work:

Hamilton Trust has created excellent Learning at Home packs, these offer daily, easy to follow English lesson activities (available below).

Hamilton Trust Learning at Home website You can access Home Learning Packs for other years on their website if you think your child would benefit.

Hamilton Trust Learning at Home - daily English lessons

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Alternative schemes of work

Oak National Academy

BBC Bitesize Daily

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Spelling and handwriting:

Completed all the year 3 and 4 statutory spellings, or just fancy a challenge? Why not try the year 5 and 6 spellings!

Statutory spellings for year 5 and 6

Handwriting

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Grammar

Learn the rules with MC Grammar!

Grammar worksheets

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Comprehension

The Iron Man comprehension and writing activities

General comprehension worksheets

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Books and audiobooks

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning on Audible This is NOT one of the books included in Audible's free collection of audiobooks, however if you have not used Audible before, you get a 30 day free trial which will be long enough to finish the book. In class we read up to the end of chapter 9.

Story Time with David Walliams Free story every day at 11am on his website

Audible - Amazon Amazon has cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages as long as schools are closed, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet

Oxford Owl Free e-book library

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Year 4 Recommended Reads!

Molly recommends the Agatha Oddly book series - they are mysteries so she doesn't want to tell you too much about them!
Herbie recommends the Mr Pattacake book series - especially 'Mr Pattacake and the Kids' Café'
Abigail recommends the Warrior Cats novels!

Anya's review of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Anya's review of Dragonology

Anya's review of Five Goes to Demon's Rocks

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Other activities:

Write book reviews
Keep a diary
Write stories!
Write a newspaper report about a topic of your choice
Practise writing Alan Peat sentence type sentences! (see link below for examples)
Practise your spellings! (Choose 10 a week from the spelling list you can find in the section above)
…and keep reading lots of books!

Alan Peat sentence types

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Interactive activities

KS2 (Years 3 - 6)

BBC Bitesize KS2 BBC Bitesize has lots of fun games and quizzes to teach you about the curriculum

Topmarks KS2 English Grammar and spelling games

KS1 (Years 1 - 2)

BBC Bitesize KS1 BBC Bitesize has lots of fun games and quizzes to teach you about the curriculum

Topmarks KS1 English Grammar and spelling games

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