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 recognise and discuss an author’s style and content. To recall facts to answer questions about a text. To skim and scan to find facts about a character To create a biographical time-line. To emphasise with the main character as he escapes the Germans. To understand how a single event changes the narrative of a story. 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 can introduce a story / to comment on the specific effects of words and phrases. To be able to empathise with a family faced with bad news. To understand how an author creates a low point in a story. To understand how one event changes the relationship between characters. To use contextual clues to understand archaic language. To understand how a story within a story is linked back to the first 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 a character To understand how an author chooses names to help develop characters. To make predictions about a story. To be able to make predictions based on knowledge of the stories an author tells.

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 uses flashbacks to tell a story. To understand what life was like a hundred years ago. To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative. To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully. To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War. To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.

This set also includes a PDF of A Christmas Carol A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use cover, contents and preface to make predictions. To read and understand a classic text. To understand how memories can help change a person. To understand how an author can have a character changed by what he experiences first hand. To understand how knowledge of the future can help change a person. To understand the many different ways an author can show a character has changed.

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 develops sympathy for a character. To understand why different fonts can be used when a book is typeset. To understand how a single event can be used to change the narrative of a story. To understand how an author brings a central character to life. To understand how an author teaches his readers. To understand how figurative speech can be used to bring an object to life. To understand how endings can be used to begin new stories.

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 find out about two characters. To be able to empathise with characters from the past To use inference and deduction to understand a character’s actions To understand how authors use chance encounters to shape their stories. To understand how an author can choose archaic words and expressions when writing a story set in the past. To understand how historical research is used to write a historical novel.

A revision or assessment tool for the use of all the verb tenses covered in Year 6 Grammar test. Verbs include: simple past, simple present, present perfect, past perfect, past progressive (or past continuous), present progressive (or present continuous, passive voice, active voice and subjunctive. Can also be used with Assertive Mentoring's Grammar Hammer 4.

A revision or assessment tool for the use of punctuation that will be encountered in Year 6 Grammar test. Punctuation included: inverted commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, colon, dash, ellipse, use of commas in subordinate clauses. Can also be used with Assertive Mentoring's Grammar Hammer 4.

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 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 the purpose of an opening chapter To understand how an author develops relationships between characters. To understand how characters can be introduced using the viewpoint of the main character. To understand how secondary characters help develop a primary character To show how an author uses an address to the reader to provide additional information. To use inference and deduction to understand how the people of America feel when they see the giant peach. To form and share opinions about a completed novel.

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 recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story. To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter. To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character. To understand how characters are developed. To be able to understand what can motivate characters. To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To find evidence that shows that a story has been written in the past. To explore how an author uses language to bring a story alive. To understand how an author uses contrast to describe two major characters. To be able to make informed predictions using clues like Chapter titles and knowledge of preceding story. To understand how an author can use secondary characters to develop a primary character. To recognise the climax of a novel. To understand how an author can relate a story within 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. To understand how Roald Dahl creates truly loathsome characters To see how an author builds suspense. To understand how an author can use poetry features to make his book more enjoyable. To empathise with the main characters of a novel. To make predictions based on the text. To understand how an author brings a story to a close.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book. To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words. To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters. To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world. To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward. To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends