Advanced Prepositions – over, among, against etc

Advanced Prepositions offers a fully illustrated pack of activities which focus on the understanding and use of later developing prepositions.

The worksheets in this pack consist of:

• Eight pages of background, introduction and instructions.
• Fifteen Advanced Prepositions activity pages, each illustrating one character or object in a variety of locations. For example, the boy is walking along, the cat is sitting under and so on. Included on each page is a writing activity for older children, who are asked to fill in the missing word in the sentences provided on the sheet. However, this is an optional activity and can be omitted where appropriate.
• Five pages of illustrated problems to solve. These provide more functional, speaking activities, which offer opportunities for the child to use a wide range of prepositions during discussions with the adult.
• A map which will be used as a talking activity to construct routes around the town. The map contains a number of significant locations which include: a supermarket; a park; mountains; the seaside; a clock tower; a row of houses; a school; a bus stop; a bridge; a tunnel; a river.
• Black and white duplicate pictures.

Age: 6–11 years

Format: PDF file, available by download

Snippets: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this include the following:

• A number of picture activity pages where you talk to the child about what they can see … what is happening etc. For example, ‘Here is a boy. Is he running or walking? Yes…he is walking, isn’t he. Is he walking into or out of the house?
• Yes… I think he is walking out of the house,’ etc.
• Each of the activity pages can then be extended to a writing game, where the child needs to fill in the missing word.