I’m A Smart Cookie! | Reading Activity Packet

Supply one synonym and one antonym for a familiar word, keeping the two straight

Build a contraction from its two source words and identify which letters are dropped

Sort everyday words into nouns and verbs, including words such as bake and eat that name an action

Choose between a full stop, a question mark and an exclamation mark according to what a sentence is doing

Form plurals by rule — consonant plus y to ies, f to ves, o plus es — and recall the irregular forms of tooth, child, man and mouse

Correct capitalisation and punctuation in a sentence written without any

The tracking chart at the front lists the five days with a Completed box and a % Correct box, so the packet can be run as morning work with the same page carrying the week's record.

The Crazy Sentence Fixer holds one sentence per day and works alongside the daily page rather than instead of it — a short warm-up before the main task.

The plurals page mixes three rule-recall questions in among the fifteen word items ("What do words that end in y change to?"), so it doubles as a quick check that the rule, not just the answer, has landed.

The cookie-thief punctuation page reads as a connected story from first sentence to last, so reading it aloud once before students mark it up makes the question and exclamation choices audible.

The Caveman Plan page models a title and an opening naming three facts, then leaves three matching sections blank; the primary-lined pages that follow are where the drafted paragraph goes.

Synonym and antonym pairing — students supply both for eight words on one table, with the directions restating that synonyms mean the same and antonyms are opposites.

Contraction formation — the chocolate-chip page pairs two words per row and asks which letters are picked out, working can + not into can't as the model before students continue with do + not, she + is and we + have.

Noun and verb sorting — twelve cookie-related words are split between a nouns column defined as a person, place or thing and a verbs column defined as action words.

End punctuation choice — twenty sentences of a single story each need a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark, including several that could plausibly take more than one.

Plural formation by rule — eighteen items work the consonant-y, f and o rules and then the irregulars tooth, child, man and mouse, with rule-recall questions interleaved.

Sentence correction — five uncapitalised, unpunctuated sentences are rewritten correctly, one per day of the week.