Reading Comprehension:Great Brits (Set1)

Reading Comprehension:Great Brits (all 3 sets)

**What’s included?** 30 complete comprehension resources themed on great Britons, both modern and historical (including a good spread of men, women and Great Brits from the BAME community.) Each resource includes a short biography, a series of questions and a mark scheme. **Great for:** -Year groups 4-8 -homework -revision -home-learning -links with PSCHE and British Values -Booster groups **Who’s included?** -Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit creator) -Bushra Nasir (UK’s first Muslim Head Teacher) -Charles Dickens (author) -Florence Nightingale (Revolutionised nursing) -Freddie Mercury (of Queen fame) -Helen Sharman (UKs first astronaut) -Jane Goodall (conservationist) -Paul Stephenson (Racial Equality activist) -Sadiq Khan (politician) -William Shakespeare (poet, playwright) -Ashok Venkitaraman (cancer researcher) -Charles Darwin (evolutionary biologist) -Claudia Jones (racial equality activitist, founder of Nottinghill Carnival) -Helen Bamber (founder of Amnesty International) -John Lennon (The Beatles) -Kelly Holmes (athlete) -Queen Victoria -Sir Isaac Newton (discoverer of gravity) -Sir Stephen Hawking (scientist) -Sir Winston Churchill (WW2 Prime Minister) -C.S Lewis (author) -Doreen Lawrence (modern-day racial equality activist) -Emmeline Pankhurst (historical gender equality activist) -Isambard Kingdom-Brunel (historical engineer) -J.K Rowling (author) -J.R.R Tolkien (author) -Princess Diana (philanthropist and ex-Royal) -Roald Dahl (author) -Shami Chakrabarti (politician, political activist) -Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)