Word Puzzles For Ks2 English Page 3
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44High frequency words
Throughout your child’s primary education, they’ll learn how to say and spell an
expanding list of high frequency words. These are words that are commonly used
in the English language, but that may not always follow the phonetic rules students
learned in Reception. We have included puzzles in this pack that include high
frequency words from the list your child will learn in KS2.
Nouns
Nouns are a part of speech that refer to a person, place or thing. They can be proper
or common, meaning specific or general people, places or things. Proper nouns
include a person’s name (Harry), titles (Dr. Johnson), events (Olympic Games), rivers
and mountains (Pennines), plus shops, schools, books and more. Common nouns are
the general categories that proper nouns fall into; for instance, the Thames is a river
(Thames is a proper noun, river is a common noun) and Marie is Billy’s sister (Marie
and Billy are proper nouns, sister is a common noun).
Past and present tense
We’ve focused heavily on verb conjugation, which means understanding the way a
verb changes when used to refer to events in the past, present and future and to one
or more people.
There are standard rules that your child will learn in class, such as adding -ed to the
end of a verb in order to make it past tense (shout becomes shouted), but there’s a
long list of verbs that don’t follow the rules (go becoming went, for instance). These
are known as irregular verbs, and must be memorised.
Prefixes and suffixes
Words can take on different meanings – and even different parts of speech – when
prefixes are added to the front, or when suffixes are added to the end. Adding re-
onto the front of the verb solve turns it into resolve, which can be used as a noun or a
verb. Adding a suffix onto the verb agree can make it agreement, which is a noun.
In this pack, your child can work on prefix and suffix matching games to help them
remember which ones can go with which words.
Similes
Another descriptive tool we have in the English language is the simile. Similes are
preceded by like or as: “The rain fell down as sheets of water”, or “The headache
pounded like a drum”. Some similes have become well-known expressions; for
instance, ‘cool as a cucumber’ and ‘plain as day’ may not be the first comparisons
that spring to mind if someone searching for their own simile, but the phrases are
common enough that people generally know what they mean.
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