Christmas Activities for KS2 Language and Literacy contains fun festive language activities, designed harness children's enthusiasm at this exciting time of the year and keep them on task. The word, sentence and text activities are linked to the National Literacy Strategy targets, so integrating them into your planning is easy. The activities include practice at using different punctuation, use of dictionaries, spelling, synonyms, idioms and writing in different genres. Now you can exploit the children's natural enthusiasm for the season and inspire them to create especially good work with this bank of fun, stimulating ideas and activities - so you can all enjoy the run-up to Christmas!