Declaration of WW2 reading comprehension upper KS2

How did people in Britain feel when WW2 was declared? This reading based activity is aimed at children in Y5/6 with a focus on the learning objective :To draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence

This resource includes:
-A diary entry to read and analyse together in the main input of the lesson. Tricky/ unfamiliar words have been highlighted in bold.

-A comprehesive powerpoint which:

1. includes the diary entry to share with class and unpick the unfamiliar vocabularly using the following strategies: reading the sentences before and after and picking out clues from the text, unpick the meaning of the word, getting into the scene and blanking out the word.
2. Example questions to unpick together as a class supporting them with their main activity
3. mock answers provided

-differentiated questions for children to answer
-mark scheme for children to use to mark their own work in the plenary
Duration: 1 lesson