A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter. To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time. To understand how an author builds a sense of tension. To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters. To empathise with the main character. To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news. To reflect upon a completed story.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story. To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To be able to emphasise with a character from the past. To use contextual clues to date a book. To think about how one piece of new can change the tone of a story.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how we can reach our own conclusions based on the information contained in a text To be able to use deduction and inference to help predict what’s going to happen in a story. To understand the way an author ends a story by drawing ideas together.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author sells his story to his reader. To understand how an author introduces his main characters. To understand how an author creates a story within a story. To understand how different characters behave when faced with their own dilemmas. To understand how a master story teller weaves different elements of a story together. To understand how an ending of a story links back to its beginning.

A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure. The week’s lessons cover: Revisit / Review Read and write alternative spellings / ai/ ey, ea, eigh and aigh (Week 04 ai sound.pptx) Teach reading, writing and spelling words with /ee/, ea, split digraph e-e Teach / Practice spelling the phase 4 tricky words any, many, please, people Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes Apply reading sentences p142 (Letters and Sounds) Apply writing sentences p149 (Letters and Sounds)

A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure. The week’s lessons cover: Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/oo/ (short – u) Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /or/ au, aw Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words thought, some, because, when Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134 Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes Apply reading sentences p142 Apply writing sentences p149

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To understand how non fiction books differ from fiction books, to be able to scan non fiction books for information. To understand the way that non fiction books follow certain conventions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information To understand more challenging vocabulary To be able to explain the differences in settings

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author introduces principle characters To understand how change affects people in different ways. To understand relationships in a new family unit To try to emphasize with how change affects individuals To understand how different children react in different situations. To reflect on a whole story

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO: To answer simple questions based on the text

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To read a book for simple information, events and ideas To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers To understand how the author implies things by his use of language. To understand the moral of Roald’s story. To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall, inference and deduction to form opinions about a central character. To empathise with a central character and his problems. To be able to make predictions based on your understanding of the main character. To use skimming and scanning to find information from a text. To be able to use recall, deduction and inference to form opinions about a text To make predictions based on what has happened in a story to date. To reflect on a completed text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. NB this resource includes each story in Word Format. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions LOs To be able to explain the moral of a story. To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language. To discuss creation myths To use context and verbal clues to decode a text.

Sample Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity.

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.