Can be used as a live taught session, or uploaded. It includes teaching slides for slide sharing, worksheets and answers too. This package contains a complete reading comprehension scheme of work for a YEAR 6 class. There are 6 units of work. The set includes a mixture of genres including: fiction. non-fiction, poetry, factfile and narrative. Types of questions: inference, predicting, retrieval, summarising, ordering events, vocabulary, authors choice. TIME required: 8 hours

This writing unit is designed for online (home) learning. It can be uploaded or taught via live sessions. The unit consists of 6 writing tasks: comprehension, vocabulary building, setting description, machinary description, dictation skills,a letter from the Alchemist. Time required: 7 hours

The unit follows the writing sequence and is aimed at Year 5/6, but can easily be adapted. The link to the video on YouTube is on the top of each sheet. There are 9 tasks in total ranging from: comprehension, vocab buliding, character description, setting description, story planning, story writing and alternative staory ending. Time required: 14 hours.

Year 5/6 Reading pack. This pack covers a range of SATs style reading questions. It explores, themes, moods, language, prediction and analsysis questions. The worksheets are ready to photocopy. ANSWERS INCLUDED

This is a student help sheet designed to hep pupils to describe characters through their actions. Using the show don’t tell method this help sheet has lots of ideas of how to describe characters in various situations be it: fear, joy, cold, relaxation and many more. This was designed and used in YEAR 5/6. This help sheet can be used during all creative writing units to develop the sense of using inferences as a description techniques to develop character. The resource can be laminated and handed out to pupils during a lesson, or even used as a display prompt sheet.

Year 5/6 …This is a one week unit of learning. The activity is to be completed using an animated video clip “The Piano” and addresses the reading objectives of “making inferences” and “how language, structures and presentation contribute to the meaning” It is aimed at upper KS2 but can be adapted for lower years. The pack includes worksheets, smart notebook presentation with links.

This resource contains a selection of three sets of 3 marker questions which can be photocopied. The three mark questions all focus on inferences, by drawing inferences such as characters thoughts, feelings and motives from their actions.

***KS2 Reading Comprehension *** A complete pack designed to last a whole week. Five seperate reading activities for each day based on the YouTube animation video - The Piano. Designed for whole class reading sessions this pack enables you to teach all the reading strands of the national curriculum for KS2. The range of questions covered include: vocabulary, prediction, ordering events, summarising and inferring, themes, mood, language, prediction and analysis questions. ANSWERS PROVIDED For further resources are available - please visit our TES Shop.

***KS2 Reading Comprehension *** A complete pack designed to last a whole week. Five seperate reading activities for each day based on the YouTube animation video - Rock, Paper, Scissors. Designed for whole class reading sessions this pack enables you to teach all the reading strands of the national curriculum for KS2. The range of questions covered include: vocabulary, prediction, ordering events, summarising and inferring, themes, mood, language, prediction and analysis questions. **ANSWERS PROVIDED ** For further resources are available - please visit our TES Shop.

**Up-dated Writing Pack** This pack contains a set for five worksheets to help teach the writing sequence based in the YouTube animation video -ALMA. The sequence progresses through vocabulary, sentence structure and finishes with story writing. A Story planning frame is included. All worksheets are are to copy. For other resources visit our TES shop - @The Resource Cabin

This pack contains ten ready to go vocabulary strategy worksheets to be used with the children to enhance word knowledge/ spelling. This resource is cross curricular and can be used in all subject areas to teach subject specific/ general vocabulary. The sheets are ready to copy. The activities in the pack include: Jeopardy Roll a word Three in a row Graphic Organizer Semantic Word Map Bumper Words A to Z Synonyms Word Splat Word of the Week Million Pound Words

***KS2/ KS3 Reading Comprehension - ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED *** Designed for whole class reading sessions and based the the Oxford Tree Tops book, this pack enables you to teach all the reading strands of the national curriculum for KS2. The range of questions covered include: vocabulary, prediction, ordering events, summarising and inferring, themes, mood, language, prediction and analysis questions… Questions are designed and are identical to the KS2 SATs format. This will allow your children to become confident with the layout. The worksheets are ready to photocopy for one chapter. For individual chapters visit our TES Shop.

KS2/ KS3 Reading Comprehension Pack Designed for class reading sessions this pack enables you to teach all the reading strands of the national curriculum for KS2. The range of questions covers, vocabulary, prediction, ordering events, summarising and inferences. Questions are designed and are identical to KS2 SATs questions to allow the children to familiarise themselves with the format. It explores, themes, moods, language, prediction and analysis questions. The worksheets are ready to photocopy.

This double worksheet has e made to teach about capital letters, full stops and conjunctions to extend sentences. It is linked the the Holes text by Louis Sacher.

This double page worksheet can be used to teach about adjectival and prepositional phrases; including expanded noun phrases. These worksheets are linked to the book Holes by Louis Sacher.

The planning frame can be used to collect vocabulary for a setting description, story writing. It helps children to focus on choosing descriptions that include all the senses.

This mat is a double sided resources consisting of useful debate language sentence openers, emotive lanaguge (both positive and negative) and cohesive lanaguge. Can be used with KS2 children or higher.

“Holes” by Louis Sacher Year 6 SATs style questions: this fabulous resource contains eight sets of 3 marker questions related to making inferences about characters feelings, thoughts, actions and motives from the detailes stated and implied. Guided Reading/ text analysis resource. Designed for a Year 6 class, but will provide challenge for any year group in KS2/ KS3/KS4. The can easily be used for Year 4/5/7/8/9.

This set of two worksheets has been created for children learning about emotive language. The worksheets are differentiated into two abilities. These can be used with children in KS2 or KS3 when looking at persuasive writing. The activity enables children to become familiar with emotive vocabulary to broaden their knowledge of this language feature and allow them to adopt these in their own writing. Both positive and negative emotive language is covered in the activity.

This is aimed at Year 6 children. It is in a comprehensive selection of comprehension questions tailored towards a class taught session on the Polar Regions using the book “Ice Trap!” . The pack includes four sheets of questions all adressing the range of skills Year 6 will encounter in the SATs Papers. It come in one ability range, but is easily differeniated to meet the needs of GDS children. It covers a range of obectives listed below: Can I distinguish between statemets that are true and false? Can I answer retrieval and inference questions about the story? Can I infer characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives from details stated and implied? Can I evaluate author’s choice of lanaguge and its impact on the audience? Can I provide reasoned justifications?