KS2 English: Wonderful Words

Wonderful Words is a series of short, animated films to support vocabulary knowledge.

This series is relevant for teaching English at KS2 in England and Northern Ireland and Second level in Scotland.

Prefixes. video

A fun, animated guide explaining how prefixes can usually be added to the beginning of words.

Prefixes

Homophones. video

A fun, animated guide explaining that homophones are two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings.

Homophones

Homophone sentence show. video

A fun, animated introduction to homophones, which are similar sounding words that have different meanings and are often spelled differently.

Homophone sentence show

Silent letter b. video

A fun, animated guide explaining that silent letters are found in lots of English words.

Silent letter b

Silent letters. video

An animated guide to words containing silent letters.

Silent letters

Suffixes - part 1 of 4 video

A fun, animated guide to the rules for adding the suffixes 'er', 'ing', 'ed', 'est' and 'y'.

Suffixes - part 1 of 4

Suffixes - part 2 of 4 video

A fun, animated guide to the rules for adding the suffixes 'ment' and 'ly'.

Suffixes - part 2 of 4

Suffixes - part 3 of 4. video

A fun, animated guide to the rules for adding the vowel suffix 'ation'.

Suffixes - part 3 of 4

Suffixes - part 4 of 4. video

A fun, animated guide to the rules and exceptions for adding the vowel suffix 'ous' to root words.

Suffixes - part 4 of 4
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 Stop-motion Animation

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Newsround

The latest news stories from Newsround to share in the classroom.

Newsround
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