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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18 Editing and Proofreading Worksheets – Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
Use these editing and proofreading worksheets to add daily editing practice to your lesson plans.
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Which One? Listening Comprehension Exercise
An Interactive PowerPoint where students choose an image to match an aural description.
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I Know That Word! Match-Up Activity
A vocabulary/labelling activity for younger students.
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Editing Passage Task Cards - Year 3
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
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Differentiating Long and Short Vowels Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive quiz to practise differentiating between long and short vowel sounds in words.
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Verb Charades Active Game
An active game that allows students to consolidate their understanding of action verbs.
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Fry Sight Words Flash Cards
A set of flash cards for the first 100 Fry Sight Words.
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The Sinking of the RMS Titanic - Historical Recounts Comparison Task
A comprehension task to enable students to compare literary historical recounts and factual historical recounts.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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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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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make Pancakes
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make Fairy Bread
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Cross a Road Safely
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Inference or Prediction? Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching your students the difference between an inference and a prediction.
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Dressing Up A Sentence Activity
An activity to help encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing.
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Elements of Poetry Worksheet - Figurative Language
A worksheet to help students understand figurative language in poetry.
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Alphabet Order Activity
A fun match-up activity to help teach children the alphabet, letters and sounds.
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Phoneme Match-Up Activity – i, y, igh, i-e, ie
A set of 18 phoneme game cards focusing on i, y, igh, i-e and ie.
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Editing Passage Task Cards - Year 6
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
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Editing Passage Task Cards - Year 5
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
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Roll-a-Scary Story Starter – Halloween Writing Prompt for Key Stage 2
Inspire some spooktacular Halloween writing with a roll-to-create Halloween Writing Prompt creator.
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SMASH IT! Blending 'l' Game
Practise finding different ways to blend 'l' with other consonants with this set of 8 game boards and letter cards.
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SMASH IT! Vowels Game
Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds with this set of 5 game boards and vowel letter cards.
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Punctuation Pizza Cover-up Game
Assist your students to recognise and use correct end punctuation with this interactive, hands-on game.