KS2 Year 6 World War 2 Guided Reading Activities
Three texts linked to WW2 with comprehension questions. I have also included the sheet I used to encourage the children to make up their own questions, considering what type of question they’re asking.
Anne Frank Background
Blitz Report
The Lion and the Unicorn(scanned book with questions on most pages)
I used these in whole class reading sessions where children took it in turns to read the text to the class before we discussed the questions. They were then given time to record their own answers.
KS2 SAT Buster Reading CGP ‘walkthroughs’
PowerPoints to accompany the CGP Reading workbook for the following texts
Non-Fiction: Dare to Dance; 1950’s Drive In; Inside the World of Jam
Fiction: Underground City; The Old Photograph; A Visit to Baba Yaga
Poetry: Lost Dog; The Gentlemen in Grey; Kite Flight
I used these to support my less able and on track children to prepare for their reading SATs. These power point breaks down the texts into paragraphs, challenges them to develop their vocabulary and dictionary skills and goes through each question one at a time, highlighting where the answer is taken from.
Best used in a whole class setting where every child has their own SAT buster book to write their answers in. Each of these PowerPoints was used for a guided reading session of 30 minutes and took two or three days to complete.
12 weeks worth of graduated HFW spellings and handwriting patterns. Each document has four pages for differentiated homework.
I used these for a year 2/3 class who covered P6 - L4.
I have used a font that I paid for at home, you may need to change it to your school font.
Only appropriate to use if your school uses the Rising Stars comprehension books for year 6.
I have scanned in each of the texts and questions to guide the children through the comprehension. Each text has a thesaurus challenge which supports children’s vocabulary aquisition.
All PowerPoints have the answers on the last slide so the work can be marked.
I anticipate each Powerpoint will take approximately half an hour to run through.
This contains an A4 page with 3 or 4 questions for every chapter of 'The Secret Mountain&' By Enid Blyton, except for the last four chapters that have blank pages for the children to use their own ideas and prove they have developed an understanding of different ways of showing you&';ve read a text!
The book I used is a dual edition 'Secrets: The Secret Mountain & The Secret of Kilimooin&'. If you use a different version of the book you may need to change the page numbers in the headings.
Good for more able younger readers.
All the questions are linked to AFs.
One week of guided reading activities for year 3 with two set leaflet texts and a Read Write Inc text for the least able. Also accompanied by the spellings associated with the RWI text.
A spread sheet with four tabs - the first 100 HFWs, the next 200 HFWs, new statutory spelling list for years 3&4 and new statutory spelling list for years 5&6. Formatted to have 30 names sideways across the top so you can tick off the spellings given/learned/used etc. Only made it for my own use really but figured I may as well share - save someone 10 minutes!
One week of guided reading activities for year 3 with two set leaflet texts and a Read Write Inc text for the least able. Also accompanied by the spellings associated with the RWI text.
(Week 2)
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able); cross words and word searches.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
camel
tunnel
squirrel
tinsel
travel
towel
gospel
kennel
feel
peel
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
emotion
station
addition
preparation
pollution
explanation
competition
invention
information
pronunciation
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
official
special
artificial
partial
confidential
influential
potential
social
denial
crucial
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able), crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests. Also a synonym game PowerPoint for the most able group.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
pencil
fossil
nostril
basil
abseil
jail
anvil
civil
fulfil
nil
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
quietly
quickly
fiercely
furiously
anxiously
determinedly
happily
lazily
angrily
hungrily
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
innocent
innocence
decent
decency
frequent
frequency
confident
confidence
adolescent
adolescence
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able) and word searches. Also a synonym game PowerPoint for the most able group.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
metal
pedal
capital
hospital
animal
tropical
local
practical
mineral
logical
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
mission
permission
division
decision
collision
discussion
explosion
television
confusion
conclusion
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
observant
observance
expectant
expectance
hesitant
hesitancy
tolerant
tolerance
substance
significant
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able), crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests. Also a synonym game PowerPoint for the most able group.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
cry
cries
cried
crying
fly
flies
flew
flying
reply
replies
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
luckily
noisily
crazily
unhappily
carefully
carelessly
amazingly
surprisingly
fortunately
unfortunately
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
assistant
assistance
obedient
obedience
independent
independence
amazement
efficient
intolerant
descendant
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able) and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
angel
star
present
tree
bells
Christmas
candle
ribbon
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
snowflake
Christmas
December
wreath
reindeer
sleigh
snowman
stocking
holly
gingerbread
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
miraculous
twinkling
mistletoe
ornament
Christmas
calm
generous
joyous
wreath
caroller
Free due to addition of ‘free’ Twinkl wordsearches.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able), crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests. Also a synonym game PowerPoint for the most able group.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
hike
hiked
hiker
nice
nicer
shine
shone
bright
brighter
brightest
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
nervous
enormous
numerous
ravenous
ridiculous
tremendous
marvellous
disastrous
adventurous
mischievous
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
dependable
comfortable
understandable
reasonable
enjoyable
possible
horrible
terrible
visible
sensible
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able), crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
fry
fries
fried
try
tries
tried
copy
copies
copied
copying
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
future
picture
mixture
creature
adventure
treasure
measure
pleasure
leisure
pressure
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
adorable
applicable
considerable
tolerable
changeable
noticeable
forcible
legible
irresistible
plausible
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able), crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Also included - PowerPoint with spellings from the previous week so that children can check their own spelling tests.
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words) gem
pat
patting
patted
hum
hummed
humming
sad
sadder
saddest
saddening
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
various
serious
cautious
precious
curious
anxious
vicious
furious
obvious
mysterious
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
referring
referred
referral
preferring
preferred
transferring
transferred
transferral
reference
referee
Start by planning the problem effectively and then you’re more likely to have a great story.
Ten clips to show just the main problem of the movies they’re from. To support children’s story writing planning - help them to unpick what a problem can be and how to identify what will help them solve it.
The little mermaid 2) Frozen 3) Finding Nemo 4) Tangled 5) Monsters Inc. 6) Aladdin 7) Toy Story 8) Beauty and the Beast 9) Storks 10) Paddington.
I do not own the copyright for any of these clips, merely the combination and key questions between.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able).
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words)
key
donkey
monkey
chimney
valley
alley
jokey
kidney
trolley
hockey
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
musician
electrician
politician
magician
mathematician
beautician
dietician (Dietician is a variant spelling of dietitian. The t spelling is used about three times as much as the c spelling.)
optician
clinician
technician
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
ought
bought
thought
nought
brought
fought
rough
tough
enough
thoughtless
Overview of the spellings for this term for each group.
Three levels of spelling sheets for year 6, practice sheets (with handwriting guide for least able).
Little and often, every day. I used these as a task to do every morning.
Group 1 (Yr1/2 words)
love
glove
some
done
come
money
month
cover
dozen
wonder
Group 2 (Yr3/4 words)
expression
discussion
confession
permission
transmission
admission
expansion
extension
comprehension
tension
Group 3 (Yr5/6 words)
abseil
caffeine
canoeist
ceiling
conceived
deceive
feisty
foreign
neighbour
perceive