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LOOK INSIDE Write Like a Ninja

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

safe satisfied unique valued

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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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terrified tormented

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unwanted

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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J a fluther of jellyfish

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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.

Start gold

sold __________________

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mat

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pup

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look

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World Around Us plant

Word Bank sky pots

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path __________________

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dish

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tin

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best

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ring

plant spade tree grass

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band __________________

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day

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name __________________

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jacket

dip

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hanger

house __________________

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Word Bank shoes hat dress trousers

lick

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Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 5-6

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Electrical Circuits Electricity powers the world around us. It comes from simple circuits.

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Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 10-11

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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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