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

Elevate Resources presents excerpts from Chapter 1 and Chapter 7 or George Orwell’s Animal Farm, accompanied by 18 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction, & Comparisons - And Answers!

Free sample of Elevate Resources reading comprehension on George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

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.

SATs style questions covering the full range of assessment focuses / reading strands for use with individual, groups or whole classes of children when studying 'Midnight Fox' by Betsy Byars - particularly useful in preparation for end of KS2 Reading assessments.

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 bumper pack of resources includes prompts, success criteria, WAGOLLs, story starters and scaffolds to inspire pupil writing across a range of genres including sci-fi, super-hero, horror, history and mystery.

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!

Twenty-eight VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, summarising) / SATs style reading comprehension questions on song lyrics from 'Three Lions ‘96’ (football’s coming home) and a journalistic/newspaper report on England’s 2-0 victory over Sweden in the semi-finals of the 2018 world cup. Suitable for UKS2/ KS3 reading comprehsnion / English lessons. Answers included.

War Horse – Michael Morpurgo (2017 edition publication) Part 1 (Ch1-11) Reading Comprehension Questions Vipers KS2 KS3 Reading comprehension questions following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation, whole class KS2 reading sessions as well as KS3 English lessons. Full set of VIPERS questions for each chapter with 122 questions in all with accompanying answers! Also fantastic for history lessons or as part of commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1.

War Horse – Michael Morpurgo (2017 edition publication) Part 2 (Ch12-21) Reading Comprehension Questions Vipers KS2 KS3 Reading comprehension questions following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation, whole class KS2 reading sessions as well as KS3 English lessons. Full set of VIPERS questions for each chapter with 88 questions in all with accompanying answers!

War Horse – Michael Morpurgo (2017 edition publication) Reading Comprehension Questions Vipers KS2 KS3 Reading comprehension questions following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation, whole class KS2 reading sessions as well as KS3 English lessons. Full set of VIPERS questions for each chapter with 210 questions in all with accompanying answers!

Reading comprehension questions following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation, whole class KS2 reading sessions as well as KS3 English lessons. Every hit song from ‘The Greatest Showman’ covered with 81 questions and accompanying answers in all.