I love making resources that take concepts from the curriculum, and express them in an abstract and engaging way. I have seen great improvements in the grades of the children in the classes as I teach as a result of this labour intensive (but ultimately rewarding) approach.
My big passion is reading. Whether it is a comprehension activity or something with a maths or grammar focus; you can guarantee that reading skills to develop understanding will underpin it.
Richard
Reading for Success
I love making resources that take concepts from the curriculum, and express them in an abstract and engaging way. I have seen great improvements in the grades of the children in the classes as I teach as a result of this labour intensive (but ultimately rewarding) approach.
My big passion is reading. Whether it is a comprehension activity or something with a maths or grammar focus; you can guarantee that reading skills to develop understanding will underpin it.
Richard
Reading for Success
In this reading pack, your students will develop their reading skills through a range of specially created documents about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. These include:
Fawkes’ birth certificate
His school report
Minutes of the meeting of conspirators
A letter to his mother
A testimony of the King’s Guard
Fawkes’ confession
His death certificate
Ideal as a booklet for the week running up to November 5th, these activities, aimed at children aged 8-11 years old, test skills in retrieval; inference and deduction; and summarising. It will also promote lively and engaging classroom discussion as children explore the tale of Guy Fawkes in greater depth than ever before.
Each activity has questions and answers, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for reading tests and exams, encouraging them to give fuller answers where required.
These reading comprehensions will test your students’ reading skills as they explore three engaging news stories from February 2017. Using research skills and their reporters notebooks, the young journalists will find out about:
Mass whale stranding in New Zealand
World War Two Bomb panic in Greece
Miraculous survival of Australian farmer
Each story comes with questions and answers, and will require students to check dictionaries; summarise stories; think critically; retrieve facts; and prioritise statements.
A template for a news story is also provided so children can write them up for themselves. A scaffold is included to show them how to fill in the boxes. Finally, posters are enclosed if you want to make the students’ work into a simple, effective display.
As a journalist and teacher, it’s my passion that children should have an awareness of what is going on in the world through engaging reading material.
CONTENTS
3: INCHES FROM DEATH!
4: Heartbreak of the Whales
5: PANIC IN GREECE!
6-8: Questions
9-11: Answers
12: How to write a newspaper article
13: Newspaper template
14-16: Posters for display
Here is a bundle of my ‘In The News’ stories.
Your students take the role of journalists researching and writing avout the stories involved, which feature April Fools; Elon Musk’s rocket car; the Terracotta Army; and the world’s oldest message in a bottle.
Students start by using reading comprehension skills to read the stories, and can use this as a model to write their own stories.
Highly engaging as a reading, writing or whole class literacy project.
Here is a bundle of five of my bestselling products looking at the following sporting events:
The Olympics
The Winter Olympics
The World Cup
In total, there are sixteen reading comprhehensions exploring the history of these sporting festivals, as well as looking at recent sporting stars like Usain Bolt, Simone Biles and Lionel Messi.
There is a big saving on offer for this bundle - ideal for those readers in your class who love sport!
Here are five reading comprehensions looking at festivals of the world. They are ideal for a whole class exercise or as part of a guided reading session. They are aimed at children in Lower Key Stage 2 in the UK, or Grade 3, 4 or 5 in the US.
Most questions are directly retrievable from the text. I have also produced more advanced texts with a heavier emphasis on inference and deduction questions.
All questions give an indication of marks available, and answers are provided. These comprehensions are good preparation for end of unit reading assessments.
Reading Comprehension Package for Qatar World Cup, with four individual activities.
Whether you love soccer or not, the World Cup will dominate the headlines in the coming weeks.
This collection of four guided reading activities, aimed at 9 to 14 year olds, tests children’s comprehension, retrieval, inference and deduction skills. There are also questions on word meaning. It will promote lively and engaging classroom discussion as children decide for themselves who will win the World Cup 2022, and indeed, if the tournament should be taking place at all!
Each activity has questions and answers, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for reading tests and exams, encouraging them to give fuller answers where required.
Contents
The World Cup 2022
General information about the World Cup in Qatar and the history of the tournament.
Qatar 2022: Controversies
A look at why the hosting of the World Cup to Qatar has led to much criticism.
Heroes & Villains
I’ve chosen six players from previous tournaments, but who are the heroes and villains, and why?
Do you know?
From an oracle octopus to a dog that found the world cup, here are a few quirky stories from World Cup history!