Elevate Resources presents this four-page article on Mother’s Day Around the World (featuring USA, UK, India, Japan, Thailand, Ethiopia, France, China, Mexico, Russia & Egypt) accompanied by 19 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning, & Comparisons.

Elevate Resources presents this four-page article on World Health Day (Date, History, Timeline, WHD Around the World, Traditions, Statistics, FAQs, How to Observe, Nurses, & Why WHD is Important) accompanied by 17 SATs style reading comprehension questions for non-fiction text from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, & Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning… AND Answers!

Elevate Resources presents this five-page biography of William Shakespeare (Early Life, London and Lost Years, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Early Plays, The Theatre Shuts Down, The Globe Theatre, Later Plays, Poetry, Works, Death, Legacy, Interesting Facts, & Timeline) accompanied by 20 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction, Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning, & Comparisons - AND Answers!

Free sample of Elevate Resources biography of William Shakespeare & reading comprehension questions.

Free sample of Elevate Resources articles and reading comprehension questions on World Art Day and Vincent Van Gogh.

Elevate Resources presents 5-pages of articles on World Art Day and Vincent Van Gogh (What is World Art Day, How to Observe World Art Day, History of World Art Day, The Man Who Painted Sunflowers, Why is He So Famous?, What Inspired Him?, Why Did He Die So Young?, What Did He Paint?) accompanied by 18 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference & Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning AND Answers!

Elevate Resources presents this 3-page article on ‘Earth Day’ (Introduction, Become a waste warrior, Plant a tree, Turn off the lights, Limit your water usage, Offer your time, Spread the massage, Be a planet hero!) accompanied by 15 SATs style reading comprehension questions for non-fiction text from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction, & Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning - AND answers!

Free sample of Elevate Resources article and reading comprehension questions on ‘Earth Day’.

Elevate Resources presents this 8-page resource combining information on World Poetry Day (History, Influential Poets, How to Observe the Day, Famous Quotes About Poetry, and Why the Day is Important) with excerpts from five of history’s most famous poems, accompanied by 22 questions covering a full range of assessment focuses - AND answers!

Free sample of Elevate resources article on World/National Poetry Day, Poem Excerpts and reading comprehension questions.

A selection of adaptable question ideas to aid teachers, TAs or parents in their questioning of children when reading books in class, at home or as part of book groups in preparation for end of KS2 assessments. Fully updated to incorporate wording style of questions from 2016 KS2 paper.

Level descriptors for national expectations in writing (working towards the expected standard and working at the expected level) written in pupil friendly language with examples of how to demonstrate each skill included. A very useful resource which has enabled a number of pupils to successfully meet national expectations.

A useful tool to accompany the breakdown of national writing standards and expectations document. The document breaks down the more general term 'cohesive devices' and gives pupils examples to use in their work in order to meet this part of the criteria.

An example of a WAGOLL of good writing for a detective/mystery story using 'The Falcon's Malteser' by Anthony Horowitz as a stimulus.

When pupils are given time to read in class, as well as enjoying the book they can also be looking to learn from the author and steal some of their good ideas! Book Burglars gives pupils a clear framework for how to achieve this! While reading, they simply make note of examples of what makes the writing great such as varied punctuation, sentence structure, metaphors/similes, conjunctions and much more! Children can earn points for the great aspects of writing they gather which can be transferred to any positive behaviour policy.

For anyone developing mystery stories with their class, this set of resources provides stimulus and resources to guide pupils through using Anthony Horowitz's 'The Falcon's Malteser' to write their own detective story. Including planning frames, WAGOLL and subject specific vocabulary lists to provide scaffolding for pupils which will result in enjoyable lessons and fantastic outcomes.

This writing prompt provides a stimulus for the writing of a journalistic report or biography based upon 'The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow'. Contains writing stimulus in the form of a letter from ‘Johnny Hollow’ and key features of writing genres for task (journalistic writing and biographies).

Outstanding lesson sequence with overview, smart-board and accompanying resources. Children revise a wide range of punctuation rules, apply this knowledge in an engaging and fun punctuation symbol puzzle, then complete a writing task based on David Wiesner's 'Tuesday' with the aim of accurately using a full range of punctuation marks.

This fantastic collection of tried and tested resources provides a great many engaging, interesting and fun activities to help your students master a wide range of aspects of SPaG. Includes work on adverbial clauses, adjective phrases, finding synonyms for 'and, but and so', examples of a wide variety of connective/conjunction types and their uses, varied sentence openers, figurative language, varied punctuation, missing punctuation and correct tense use. Using themes including football, 'Rocky', Harry Potter and many more this resource will enthuse even the hardest to reach students!