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Spelling and grammar activities for homeschooling children.

Children need lots of practice with spelling and English grammar, and these key skills help them with their other schoolwork too.

Spelling and grammar for 5-7 year olds

Here's some fun activities to practise silent letters, beginnings and endings, and singular and plural.

Singular and plural

Bun is sorting clothes. Can you help her? Draw a line from each label to the right basket.

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Two words into one

You can make new words by squashing two words together and missing out some letters. Can you help the animals learn how to spell them?

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Missing letters

Each of these words is missing a middle letter. Help Squilly pick one letter from the vowel tree to complete each word.

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Adding y

The animals are learning what happens when they add the letter y to a word. Look at what they've found out, then help Croc fill in his weather chart.

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Beginning and endings

Help Moley find the right letter to begin these words.

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Silent letters

The letters g, k and w can be silent depending on where they go in a word. Can you draw a ring around six silent letters in Lem's poem?

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Spelling and grammar for 7+ year olds

These activities will help your child's understanding of clauses, prefixes, adverbs and word families.

Adverbs

Adverbs such as 'quickly' or 'easily' describe an action. Fill in the gaps in the sentences using the adverbs at the top of the card.

Age: 7+ years
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Word families

The animals are at the beach today and Bruce needs help to pick some coconuts. Draw a coconut shape around all the words that contain the word 'help'.

Age: 7+ years
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Same letters, different sounds

Suki is learning about the sounds the letters 'ch' can make. Say each word out loud and listen to the sound the letters make, then write each word in the correct list.

Age: 7+ years
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Clauses

The animals are having lunch at a cafe. There are four sentences about them below - draw a straight line under all the main clauses.

Age: 7+ years
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Prefix puzzles

The animals are learning to make new words by adding a prefix to the start of a root word. They have done the first one. Can you do the rest?

Age: 7+ years
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Silent letters

The animals are learning about words with silent letters. Look at Brenda's board and underline one silent letter in each word.

Age: 7+ years
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Online grammar games, quizzes and activities

At Usborne Quicklinks you'll find links to carefully chosen websites with activities to help your child practise their grammar, including games to spot nouns, pronouns, verbs and more.

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