KS3 SPaG, Starters and Games
Handy starters, games and SPaG activities to help students master key skills in grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and spelling.
108 teaching resources
2021 Christmas Quiz for KS3 and KS4
The Great Big 2021 Christmas Quiz for KS3 and KS4 Our ever-popular Christmas quiz is...
2022 Christmas Quiz for KS3 and KS4
The Great Big 2022 Christmas Quiz for KS3 and KS4 Our ever-popular Christmas quiz is...
Abstract Nouns - KS3
Abstract Nouns is a 12-slide PowerPoint resource (with 2 worksheets) designed to help KS3 students...
Active and Passive Voice - KS3
Active and Passive Voice - KS3 (9-slide editable PowerPoint presentation with 2 worksheets) Active and...
Activity Timer
FREE Teaching Aid: Activity Timer This free teaching aid can be used in starter activities...
Adding Adverbs - KS3
Adding Adverbs - KS3 This KS3 Essential English Skills resource is a great little lesson...
Adjectives - KS3
Adjectives – KS3 English Essentials (a 16-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with 3 worksheets) Our...
Adjectives in Stories
Adjectives in Stories (10-slide editable PowerPoint with worksheet) Adjectives in Stories is a handy PowerPoint...
Adverbs
Adverbs Writing - SPaG This resource explains how to use effective adverbs to develop sentence...
Amazing Adjectives - KS3
Amazing Adjectives - KS3 Essential English Skills (8-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with one worksheet) Amazing...
Amazing Adverbs - KS3
Amazing Adverbs - KS3 Essential English Skills (7-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with one worksheet) Amazing...
Apostrophes - KS3
Apostrophes - KS3 Essential English Skills (18-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with one worksheet) Apostrophes -...
Autumn - New Year, New Leaf
Autumn - New Year, New Leaf For many young people a new school year can...
Avoiding Comma Splicing - KS3
Avoiding Comma Splicing In this KS3 resource, learners recap the rules regarding comma splicing and...
Back to School Activities
Back to School Activities This handy back to school starter activity resource is full of...
Back to School Starter Activities
Back to School Starter Activities Our ‘Back to School Starter Activities’ resource is ideal for...
Blockbusters
Blockbusters teaching resource 5 slide editable PowerPoint presentation Blockbusters is a fully editable...
Bonfire Night Word Games
Bonfire Night Word Games Bonfire Night Word Games is an English teaching resource full of...
Capital Letters for KS3
Capital Letters for KS3 (18-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 4 differentiated worksheets) This lesson is...
Causal Conjunctions - KS3
Causal Conjunctions - KS3 Essential English Skills (13-slide editable PowerPoint and 3 differentiated worksheets) ...
Christmas Dingbats
Christmas Dingbats Activity Christmas Dingbats provides twenty more delightful dingbats – all with a special...
Christmas Grammar Games
Christmas Grammar Games (47-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 13 worksheets) ‘Christmas Grammar Games’ is a...
Christmas Word Games
Christmas Word Games 63 slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation 15 worksheets Christmas Word Games is...
Christmas Word Search
English Teaching Resources: Christmas Word Search 'Christmas Word Search' is a FREE animated activity that...
Clauses and Phrases - KS3
Clauses and Phrases - Year 7 English Essentials Our ‘KS3 English Essential Skills’ resources are...
Colons - KS3
Colons - KS3 Essential English Skills (19-slide editable PowerPoint lesson with one worksheet) Colons -...
Colons and Semi-Colons - KS3
Colons and Semi-Colons – Year 7/8 English Essentials (a 43-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with...
Comma Splicing - KS3
Comma Splicing – KS3 'Comma Splices – KS3' helps students avoid making mistakes when using...
Comma Splicing and Run-ons - KS3
Comma Splicing and Run-ons Comma Splices and Run-ons is a handy PowerPoint teaching resource designed...
Commas - KS3
Commas - KS3 English Essential Skills (20-slide PowerPoint lesson and one worksheet) Commas - KS3...
Complex Sentences - KS3
Complex Sentences - KS3 (16-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets) Complex Sentences - KS3 is a...
Compound Sentences - KS3
Compound Sentences - KS3 (21-slide PowerPoint lesson with 5 worksheets) Our ‘KS3 English Essentials’ resources...
Determiners - KS3
Determiners - KS3 (8-slide PowerPoint lesson with worksheet) Determiners - KS3 is an 8-slide PowerPoint-based...
Developing Inference - KS3
Developing Inference - KS3 Our ‘KS3 English Essentials’ resources are designed to help KS3 learners...
Developing Reading Skills - Prefixes
Developing Reading Skills - Prefixes English SPaG Teaching Resource with Worksheets This English vocabulary teaching...
Developing Vocabulary Skills
Developing Vocabulary Skills (30-slide editable PowerPoint and 11 accompanying worksheets) Developing Vocabulary Skills has been...
Dingbats
English Teaching Resources – Dingbats Reading skills Dingbats teaching resource 25 slide editable PowerPoint presentation...
Dingbats 2
Dingbats 2 follows on where the original Dingbats resource left off with more fun dingbats...
Dingbats 3
Dingbats 3 Dingbats 3 follows on where the original Dingbats and Dingbats 2 resources left...
Direct and Reported Speech
Direct and Reported Speech ‘Direct and Reported Speech’ teaching resource is designed to help students...
Double Negatives
FREE English Grammar Teaching Resource: Double Negatives This ‘Double Negatives’ teaching resource is designed to...
Drafting
‘Drafting’ is a 12 slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 3 accompanying worksheets designed to help...
Easily Confused Words - Its and It's
Easily Confused Words - Its and It's 'Easily Confused Words - Its and It's' is...
Easily Confused Words - Of and Off
Easily Confused Words - Of and Off 'Easily Confused Words - Of and Off' is...
Easily Confused Words - There, Their and They're
FREE RESOURCE Easily Confused Words - There, Their and They're This PowerPoint lesson explains the...
Easily Confused Words - Two, Too and To
Easily Confused Words - Two, Too and To This PowerPoint lesson explains the difference between...
Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and Where
Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and Where 'Easily Confused Words - Were, We're and...
Exclamation Marks
Exclamation Marks English SPaG Teaching Resource 'Exclamation Marks' is a handy punctuation teaching resource covering...
Expanded Noun Phrases - KS3
Expanded Noun Phrases – Year 7/8 English Essentials (a 44-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with...
Fronted Adverbials - KS3
Fronted Adverbials - Year 7 (15-slide editable PowerPoint-based lesson with 4 worksheets) Our ‘KS3 Essential...
Grammar and Punctuation Posters
Grammar and Punctuation Poster This handy set of posters can be used on-screen or can...
Guess Who Starter Activity
Guess Who Starter Activity FREE Teaching Resource 'Guess Who Starter Activity' is a fun starter...
Halloween Adjectives
English Teaching Resources – Halloween Adjectives KS2 > SPAG > Grammar Halloween Adjectives teaching...
Halloween Word Games
Halloween Word Games This cute Halloween themed English teaching resource contains fun word activities with...
Halloween Word Search
Halloween Word Search This editable teaching resource provides students with a chance to practise...
Halloween Word Search 2
English Teaching Resources – Halloween Word Search 2 A Halloween themed animated word search activity...
Hot Potato Starter Activity
Hot Potato Starter Activity This starter activity is designed to help pupils revise or recap...
How to Use Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3
How to Use Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3 Essential English Skills (14-slide editable PowerPoint...
Hyphens and Brackets
English Teaching Resources – Hyphens and Brackets Hyphens and Brackets is a 10 slide PowerPoint...
Hyphens to Avoid Ambiguity - KS3
Hyphens to Avoid Ambiguity - Year 7 English Essentials Our ‘KS3 English Essential Skills’ resources...
i before e except after c
i before e except after c This English spelling teaching resource explains the general rule...
Icebreaker Activities
Icebreaker Activities 'Icebreaker Activities' is an editable PowerPoint teaching resource (with 2 worksheets) which is...
Improving Vocabulary
Improving Vocabulary English SPaG Teaching Resource This handy teaching resource focuses on word choice and...
Just A Minute Starter Activity
Just A Minute Starter Activity This fun starter or plenary activity will help children recap...
KS3 Christmas Bundle
Our KS3 Christmas Bundle includes 7 teaching resources ideal for the final weeks of the...
Metaphors
Metaphors Our ‘Metaphors’ teaching resource helps pupils identify metaphors in reading and explains how to...
Non-verbal Communication Starter Activities
Non-verbal Communication Starter Activities Starter Activities with Worksheet 'Non-verbal Communication Starter Activities' is a starter/warm-up...
Noughts and Crosses Starter Activity
Noughts and Crosses Starter Activity Noughts and Crosses Starter Activity is a fully editable PowerPoint...
One Word Story Starter Activity
One Word Story Starter Activity In this resource the class create an oral story. Each...
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia English SPaG Teaching Resource This English vocabulary teaching resource explores the use of onomatopoeia...
Parts of Speech
English Teaching Resources – Parts of Speech Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Parts of Speech teaching...
Personal Pronouns - KS2
Personal Pronouns - KS2 FREE English SPaG Teaching PowerPoint Resource with worksheets 'Personal Pronouns -...
Pick a Number - Activity Template
Pick a Number - Activity Template 'Pick a Number - Activity Template' is an animated...
Point, Evidence, Explain
FREE English Teaching Resources – Point, Evidence, Explain KS3 Reading - Understanding Texts Critically Point,...
Proper Nouns
Proper Nouns is a PowerPoint teaching resource designed to help children develop their knowledge and...
Punctuating Speech
Punctuating Speech English Teaching Resources: Punctuating Speech teaches pupils how to use speech marks /...
Punctuation Perfection
Punctuation Perfection (12-slide PowerPoint teaching resource) This ‘Punctuation Perfection’ teaching resource is designed to help...
Question Marks - KS3
Question Marks - KS3 (12-slide PowerPoint lesson with 2 worksheets) This resource explains how to...
Quickfire Questions Starter Activity
Quickfire Questions Starter Activity – FREE Teaching Resource This FREE starter activity provides an engaging...
Quiet and Quite - KS3
Quiet and Quite (10-slide editable PowerPoint lesson) Our ‘KS3 English Essentials’ resources are designed to...
Roald Dahl Day Activities and Games
Roald Dahl Day Activities and Game 'Roald Dahl Day Activities and Games' is a brilliant...
Self-assessment Tool
Self-assessment Tool This handy little resource is designed to help students self-assess their work. Content...
Show Not Tell
Show Not Tell Our ‘Show Not Tell’ teaching resource explains how to use show sentences...
Simple Sentences - KS3
Simple Sentences – KS3 English Essentials (a 14-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with 3 worksheets) ...
Spelling Rules
English Teaching Resources: Spelling Rules is a 23 slide PowerPoint resource designed to help children...
Starter Activities Bundle
This Starter Activities Bundle contains 13 diverse starter activities including Blockbusters, All About Me, Noughts...
Stop the Express Starter Activity
Stop the Express Starter Activity This starter (or possible plenary) activity will help children consolidate...
Subject - Verb Agreement - KS3
Subject - Verb Agreement - KS3 (33-slide PowerPoint lesson with 3 worksheets) Subject - Verb...
Suffixes
Suffixes (PowerPoint and worksheets) Our ‘Suffixes’ teaching resource is designed to help KS2 children develop...
Syllables
Syllables (10-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 2 worksheets) This ‘Syllables’ teaching resource is designed to...
Synonyms - KS3
Synonyms - KS3 (17-slide editable PowerPoint with 4 worksheets) This lesson is aimed at middle...
The Main Clause
The Main Clause is an 8 slide PowerPoint presentation with an accompanying worksheet focusing on...
The Subjunctive Form - KS3
The Subjunctive Form – KS3 English Essentials (35-slide fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource with 2...
The Subordinate Clause
The Subordinate Clause The Subordinate Clause is a PowerPoint teaching resource with two accompanying worksheets...
Time Conjunctions - KS3
Time Conjunctions - Year 7 Essential English Skills Our ‘KS3 English Essential Skills’ resources are...
Types of Nouns
Types of Nouns English SPaG Teaching Resource In 'Types of Nouns' pupils practise recognising common...
Understanding Complex Sentences
Understanding Complex Sentences Our ‘Understanding Complex Sentences ’ teaching resource is designed to help pupils...
Using a Dictionary
English Teaching Resources: Using a Dictionary Our ‘Using a Dictionary’ teaching resource is designed to...
Using a Thesaurus
'Using a Thesaurus' is a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation focusing on how to use a thesaurus...
Using Commas
English Teaching Resources - Using Commas teaches pupils how and when to use commas when...
Using Full Stops - KS3
Using Full Stops - KS3 (19-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets) This Essential English Skills lesson...
Using Paragraphs - KS3
Using Paragraphs - KS3 (30-slide PowerPoint and 3 worksheets) Using Paragraphs - KS3 is a...
Using the Apostrophe
Using the Apostrophe English SPaG Teaching PowerPoint Resource with worksheets 'Using the Apostrophe' is a...
Verbs
‘Verbs’ teaches pupils how to use verbs effectively to develop vocabulary and improve written work. ...
Words Instead of Said - KS3
Words Instead of Said - KS3 KS3 English Programme of Study - Writing and grammar...
Writing Using Paragraphs
Writing Using Paragraphs teaching resource (16 slide PowerPoint and 2 worksheets) Our 'Writing Using Paragraphs'...