Teaching pack: Reading at KS1

Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners.

This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play.

What’s included?

• 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant
• supporting PowerPoint presentations
• opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
• includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What’s inside?

Introduction (pages 4-7)

Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21)
Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel
Session 2 - Using precise language
Resource printouts

Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36)
Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel
Session 2 - Story map
Resource printouts

Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51)
Session 1 - Birds of Prey
Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie
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Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66)
Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit
Session 2 - Character traits
Resource printouts

Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84)
Session 1 - Reading detectives
Session 2 - Character traits
Resource printouts

Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101)
Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions
Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions
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Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120)
Session 1 - What happens next?
Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer
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Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138)
Session 1 - A trip to the zoo
Session 2 - Zoo complaint
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Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160)
Session 1 - Cause and effect
Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories
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Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171)
Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie
Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess
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