KS2 Discussion prompts Encourage talk for learning across all subjects Sentence stems and tips Share your opinion Agree/Build Challenge Be a good listener Clarify Be a good speaker Summarise Links with our reading skills posters.

5 x reading comprehension lessons based on chapters from So You Think You’ve Got it Bad? A KId’s Life in Ancient Egypt By Chae Strathie. Year 4 Book recommended age 7+ 36-page dyslexia-friendly PowerPoint 5 lessons 16 x PDF activities Lessons based on: Prediction - the front cover Clothes and Hairstyles - mixed comprehension questions and match the clothing to the era! The Home - retrieval cards, pyramid fact page. Chores and Jobs - create a pyramid of roles in society, retrieval questions, match the definitions. Diet - create a menu, clarify glossary definitions. Extracts not included.

Available with a £2 discount on our website. My Teaching Hive. Whole Class Guided Reading Comprehension resources based on The Explorer by Katherine Rundell An adventurous story to compliment KS2 rainforests topic work. Recommended for Year 5 Appropriate for age 9+ 3 x teaching PowerPoints - 194 pages 108 x PDF documents Vocabulary cards for all 31-chapters Mixed comprehension questions and activities to develop reading skills linked to the KS2 National Curriculum. The book will need to be purchased separately.

3 whole class reading comprehension lessons based on the picture book ‘House Held Up By Trees’ by Ted Kooser Whole class reading, discussion cards, exploring themes. Reading Skills foci: predict, discuss, connect (exploring themes in the story 21-page dyslexia-friendly PowerPoint, 2 x PDF downloadable activities. Picture book comprehension Extract not included. Recommended for age 7+ Lesson 1 Firstly pre-teach vocabulary. Children then participate in a discussion about the text considering key question cards. Finally, ask the children to reflect on what kind of story it is and what it makes them think about. Lesson 2 Encourage the children to make wider connections with the the book, exploring the main ideas, topics and issues raised. Children then sort cards they think best represents the key themes in the book in order of importance. If they had to pick just one card, which would they choose? Lesson 2 Children consider what inspired the author to write this story. Then children reflect on their own lives and places which are important to them. Finally, the children explore the work of the award-winning illustrator Jon Klassen as inspiration for their own artwork.