Vocabulary Teaching Resources
Building on the vocabulary skills of your students can help them to not only improve their writing but to also more comprehensively express themselves. Use this collection of vocabulary teaching resources, including phonics, spelling, reading and writing materials with your primary school students. Also provided are teaching resource packs, cloze activities, PowerPoints, educational posters and task cards to help extend your students' vocabularies.
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Halloween Word Wall Vocabulary
Sixty Halloween-related vocabulary cards for a word wall.
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Emotional States Vocabulary
A word wheel of synonyms and similar words used to describe emotional states.
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Adjectives
A word wheel of synonyms and similar words that could be used instead of some commonly overused adjectives.
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Compound Words - Worksheet
A 2-page worksheet to practise using compound words.
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Then Synonyms Poster
A poster displaying synonyms for the word then.
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Ghost Train Cloze Worksheet
A narrative vocabulary cloze worksheet.
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My Emotions Wheel
An emotions wheel for students to communicate how they are feeling.
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My Word of the Day Mat
A fun worksheet to use in the classroom when building vocabulary.
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Digraph Worksheet - er
A worksheet that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities relating to the digraph er.
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Digraph Worksheet - ur
A worksheet that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities relating to the digraph aw.
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Classroom Vocabulary Chart
Kick off the new year and introduce your learners to the things in their school and classroom with vocabulary-building Classroom Word Charts.
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Classroom Colour Charts
Promote colour recognition in your foundation classroom with printable colour word charts with images.
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Christmas Charades for Kids
Have fun in the days leading up to Christmas break playing an exciting game of Christmas Charades!
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Halloween Words – Vocabulary and Writing Centre for Key Stage 1
Stretch your pupils’ vocabulary and writing skills with a devilishly-delightful Halloween Vocabulary and Writing Centre.
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Halloween Word Search – Key Stage 2
Boost voca-BOO-lary skills with a printable Halloween word search for Key Stage 2.
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What's My Colour? - Matchup Activity
Use this resource in the classroom when learning and reinforcing colour identification.
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Reception Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
31 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Opposites Card Game
A diverse set of cards to help students learn about opposite language.
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Year 5 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 5 magazine.
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Year 6 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 6 magazine.
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What Does That Mean? Game
A board game where students identify the correct definition of multiple-meaning words.
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Year 2 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 2 magazine.
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National Tree Day – Word Hunt
A National Tree Day word search to use in the classroom.
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Compound Words – Memory Matching Game
A compound word matching game with 40 cards that create 20 compound words.
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Quick Thinker Game – Worksheet
An alphabet racing game to help prompt vocabulary knowledge.
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Digraph Worksheet - ai
A worksheet that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities relating to the digraph ai.
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Digraph Worksheet - ar
A worksheet that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities relating to the digraph ar.
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Digraph Worksheet - ue
A worksheet that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities relating to the digraph ue.
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Context Detectives Worksheet
A set of 3 worksheets for students to practise using context clues to identify the meaning of a word.
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Giant Letter Tiles with Numbers - Lowercase
Use these giant letter tiles for a variety of vocabulary and spelling activities.
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Giant Letter Tiles with Numbers - Uppercase
Use these giant letter tiles for a variety of vocabulary and spelling activities.
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What's in My Kitchen? – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article from the Reception magazine (Bonus Issue).