Plasnewydd Primary School

A great KS2 site for learning about all of the different types of writing such as narrative, reports, poetry, non narrative.

Click onto this site for explanations of how to write narrative, reports, newspapers articles, recounts, procedures, descriptions and many others.

Click here to learn more about myths

Learn how to write simple stories with the help of the story plant

Learn how to plan and write a Myth or Legend

Open the book and make your own story

Practise instruction writing by making a cup of tea for Gran

Tikatok allows you to write, illustrate and publish your own book. Illustrations can be drawings or photos.
The book can be viewed online or printed and mailed to you. It also allows others to see and comment on your book. An example of a book created with Tikatok is here.
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Storybird is a new site for creating books online. It is still in beta and hopes to allow printing of their books soon. You can watch a video about the creative possibilities it allows here.

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Spelling City is an excellent way to practice spelling lists. Type in your spelling words, and the site will generate ten games to help you practice them. It will also "teach" you the words by saying them aloud, spelling them aloud and using them in a sentence for you. It will also test you to see if you have learned them.

By changing the blends you can create lots of different words to learn to spell. See how many you can remember. There are even words linked to subjects that would be handy to know. Have a go.

Spellings with the Spellits - escape from the maze, catch the horse or catch the thief games to help you improve your spellings

Improve your spelling and grammar to become a better reader, writer and all round communicator

Homophones - to, too and two - find out their meanings and when you should use them

Shake the letters and see how many words you can spell

Homophones - where, were, we're - find out the meanings of these words and when they need to be used

Learn your CVC words here. Make up your own.

Play the CVC game and learn lots of CVC words. It's great fun

Play the CVC game. Click the wheel to stop the letters and spell the work in the picture

Click on the correct CVC word and the lion pounces on it.

Play Jim's Whirlyword Machine and learn aout CVC words, consonant clusters, high frequency words and long vowel sounds. It's great fun

Learn cluster blends by playing this game and having fun

Highlight the vowel phonemes in each sentence or drag the correct spelling into the space. Make your card

Play the dinosaur game and learn your spellings

Learn how to read and spell common words by playing this game

Look at the picture and choose the correct word - see how many you can get correct

Listen to the sentence and click onto the correct word

Make as many words as you can from the letters and beat the clock

Learn how to spell words with suffixes and prefixes - try the activity

Play the game and learn about adding different endings to your words

Play Alien Hangman and have some fun

Play the game with the Sellits and see if you can complete the adventure

Great way to learn how to spell. This game can be played from year 1 up to year 6. Unjumble the letters and spell the words correctly

Spelling with Clifford - see how well you do

Here are Compound Words - can you match them up and learn how to spell them

What is a Homophone? Play the game and find out

Homophones - there, their, they're - find out the meanings of these words

Learn how to use silent letters by playing the Silent Invaders game

Complete the activity and think of words that can replace said

Learn about syllables and play the game

Make the most words and earn yourself the title of 'King of the Monsters'

Space Hangman - Play and enjoy

Have fun learning lots of spellings on this wordsearch. Create your own wordsearch linked to the type of words you want to learn

Concrete Poetry Concrete Poetry the easy way. Choose a shape and drag in the words that you would like--or add your own. Printable.

Listen to this poem

Read these poems and enjoy

Choose a shape and write a poem

Click here to look at lots of other types of poems

Learn about what a sentence needs and try the activity

Proof read TV scripts, memos and other written documents

Learn about sentence structure here and try the activity

Learn about sentences with he penguins on ice

Click here to practise your commas

Putting sentences together activity

Making a sentence

Learn about the different parts of grammar in this game

What is an Adjective? Find out here

Click and play the Rocket Activity to learn about adjectives

Write different Newpaper articles- but to achieve success you must use lots of Adjectives.

Choose the correct adjectives to make the story more interesting

Click here and learn about Proper Nouns

Learn about collective nouns such as a pride of lions

Learn about pronouns by clicking here

What are verbs? Click here to see them in action

Learn which verb should go into the sentence with the bees

Which verb is linked to other verbs? Play the activity and find out

Click here to try and punctuate 10 sentences correctly

Learn about apostrophes and beat the clock

Click here to learn about capital letters and what they look like. Learn about where they should go in a sentence. Learn about full stops

Help Biff and Wilf put full stops on sentences

Help Wilma, Nadim and Floppy with their question marks

Lug needs help with capital letters - can you sort these out?

Match the contraction - how many do you know?

Practise your comprehension skills by using this link to read parts of famous stories and answer questions about them.