Looking for a ready-to-use SPaG resource to boost your pupils’ understanding of sentence structure? This downloadable Grammar Burst: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Pack is the ideal solution for busy UK primary school teachers.
Perfectly pitched for KS2, this pack provides everything you need to deliver five engaging 15-minute grammar lessons. Whether you choose to teach them across a week or integrate them flexibly into your literacy sessions, each activity is designed to build pupils’ confidence in recognising and using different sentence types.
The pack includes:
- A clear, teacher-friendly PowerPoint to guide each lesson step-by-step.
- Worksheets to identify and expand simple, compound and complex sentences.
- Fun verb cards for interactive group work.
- A writing plan to support independent composition.
- An uplevelling worksheet to refine and improve sentence variety.
Through carefully structured activities, children learn how to write with greater control and flair. From grouping sentences and expanding ideas, to crafting a short story that blends all sentence types (and even includes possessive apostrophes), this resource makes grammar meaningful and creative.
The challenge tasks encourage pupils to go further, applying their learning in context. The lessons are practical, purposeful and easy to deliver with minimal prep. By the end of the sequence, pupils will understand how sentence variety impacts pace, tension and description—essential skills for writing across the curriculum.