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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Word Family Slide Activity
A set of 12 word families are used to create this fun individual or small group activity using planes.
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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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Digraph Bug Swatting Game
A small group bug swatting game to consolidate the concept of digraph graphemes at the beginning of a word.
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Year 2 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 2 magazine.
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Consonant Blends Fishbowl Sorting Activity
A small group or whole class sorting game to consolidate the learning of beginning consonant blends.
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Missing Letter Alphabet Cards
A resource to help students identify the first letter of each word.
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Word Power Vocabulary Worksheet
A comic book themed worksheet to use in the classroom when building vocabulary.
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Alphabetise the Aquarium Activity
A set of 4 mats for students to practise alphabetising.
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Simple Present and Past Tense Match-Up Cards (Irregular Verbs)
A set of 30 match-up cards to help students learn about simple present tense and simple past tense of irregular verbs.
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Mould It! Task Cards
A set of 28 playdough activity cards.
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Simple Sentence Dominoes (Version 3)
A set of 30 dominoes to assist younger students with building simple sentences.
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Reception Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 2)
Issue 2 of our beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Reception students.
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Bump! Blending at the End of a Word - Board Game
A board game to practise decoding words with a final consonant blend.
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Simple Sentence Dominoes (Version 1)
A set of 30 dominoes to assist younger students with building simple sentences.
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BUMP! Blending 'l' - Board Game
A board game to practise decoding words with an l-blend.
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Bump! Blending 'r' – Board Game
A board game to practise decoding words with an r-blend.
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Homophones Match-Up Activity
A set of flashcards showing some common homophones in words and pictures.
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Read and Colour Worksheet – Singular and Plural Nouns
A worksheet to practise identifying singular and plural nouns.
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The Fishes' Market Inference Scenario Poster
Part of a series of inference scenario posters to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Ducks in Space Inference Scenario Poster
Part of a series of inference scenario posters to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Inference Scenario - The Secret Society of Vegetable Venerators Worksheet
Part of a series of inference scenario worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Inference Scenario - The Fishes' Market Worksheet
Part of a series of inference scenario worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Inference Scenario - The Elegant Express Worksheet
Part of a series of inference scenario worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Year 3 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 3 magazine.