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POSITIVE EMOTIONS * * * * * * *
amused appreciated competent creative curious delighted empowered
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enthusiastic
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excited exhilarated grateful included interested loved
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
passionate
Collective nouns are used to name groups of things, especially animals.
proud relaxed
Includes a selection of Alan Peat’s exciting sentences: a method of categorising sentence types with catchy names
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a herd of antelope
a parade of elephants
“ A super engaging and accessible primer to the fundamentals of language, packed with usable examples, that should be in every classroom. ”
a colony of ants
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abandoned alone betrayed bitter
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disgusted embarrassed failed frustrated
Covers all the grammar terminology in the Key Stage 2 curriculum cheated
claustrophobic confused
guilty
lonely
manipulated
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a shoal of fish a swarm of flies
a flock of birds
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a herd of goats
panicky
a caravan of camels
a band of gorillas
shattered
an army of caterpillars
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a herd of deer
vulnerable
a pack, cry, or kennel
a brood of hens
of dogs
MY NOTES
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
a swarm of bees
GENERAL VOCAB
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Write Like a Ninja
- Piers Torday, award-winning author of The Last Wild series for children, @PiersTorday
LOOK INSIDE Comprehension Ninja Workbooks Contains answers and advice for parents
Features a variety of bespoke non-fiction texts and question types linked to the curriculum
Comprehension Ninja Workbook for Ages 7-8
“ I WISH THAT THE VOCABULARY NINJA WAS MY SENSEI WHEN I WAS A CHILD LEARNING HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF WRITING.” - Jane Considine, author of “The Write Stuff - Transforming the Teaching of Writing”
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Helps children practise different vocabulary areas linked to the curriculum, such as subject-specific terms and descriptive words
Rhyme Race Race to the end! Write a word which rhymes with the given word for each step of the way.
If you need help, use the letters in bold as a clue to the first letter or letters of a possible answer. One has been done.
Label each picture with the words from its Word Bank.
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dip
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Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 5-6
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MEET ANDREW JENNINGS Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja. He is an experienced teacher and school leader. His innovative ninja-themed resources are used in thousands of classrooms in the UK and abroad. Follow Andrew on Twitter @VocabularyNinja and discover more resources at www.vocabularyninja.co.uk.
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