Year 4 GPS Direct Speech Lesson This Direct Speech lesson covers the prior learning of Recognising Direct Speech before moving onto the main skill of using inverted commas. The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks. This pack includes: Main Activity Worksheet Homework Extension PowerPoint Lesson Slides Application and Reasoning Varied Fluency Prior Learning Answers

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 7 from ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 2 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Classroom Secrets Autumn Year 3 GPS Assessment Resource Pack has been created to match our GPS Scheme of Work. It is designed to assess pupil knowledge of all the blocks and small steps covered so far in the Autumn term. The assessment is similar to a SATs test, with 22 questions linked to all of the small steps in Autumn. The pack includes: The Year 3 assessment with 22 questions The mark scheme with content domain coverage, small step coverage and suggested levels A teacher assessment spreadsheet for gap analysis and suggested levels (Emerging, Developing, Expected and Greater Depth)

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 6 from ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Classroom Secrets Autumn Year 4 GPS Assessment Resource Pack has been created to match our GPS Scheme of Work. It is designed to assess pupil knowledge of all the blocks and small steps covered so far in the Autumn term. The assessment is similar to a SATs test, with 21 questions linked to all of the small steps in Autumn. The pack includes: The Year 4 assessment with 21 questions The mark scheme with content domain coverage, small step coverage and suggested levels A teacher assessment spreadsheet for gap analysis and suggested levels (Emerging, Developing, Expected and Greater Depth)

Start of Year 4 GPS (SPAG) Baseline Assessment This Year 4 Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessment (zip) will help teachers assess childrens’s knowledge of the Year 3 Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives at the start of the year. It includes a tracker spreadsheet which can be used to analyse results and inform planning. This pack includes: Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessments for Year 4. Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge. Answers included.

This whole class guided reading pack for Kaspar - Prince of Cats Chapter One (free extract available online) is differentiated for Year 5 and Year 6, linked to the new National Curriculum objectives. It includes comprehension questions and a challenge activity linked to chapter 1.

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 16 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘Cinnamon’ by Neil Gaiman. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Classroom Secrets Autumn Year 1 GPS Assessment Resource Pack has been created to match our GPS Scheme of Work. It is designed to assess pupil knowledge of all the blocks and small steps covered so far in the Autumn term. The assessment is similar to a SATs test, with 25 questions linked to all of the small steps in Autumn. The pack includes: The Year 1 assessment with 25 questions The mark scheme with content domain coverage, small step coverage and suggested levels A teacher assessment spreadsheet for gap analysis and suggested levels (Emerging, Developing, Expected and Greater Depth)

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 5 from ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 1 from ‘Private Peaceful’ by Michael Morpurgo. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

KS1 SATs Reading Practice Find and Copy a Word This Classroom Secrets resource (pdf) is differentiated in three levels and includes three or four different text types (narrative, diary extract, letter and a newspaper report) with a range of ‘find a copy a word’ questions in the style of the KS1 Reading SATs Test. The texts are differentiated for Year 1 Secure, Year 2 Developing and Year 2 Secure. Includes answers.

Start of Year 5 GPS (SPAG) Baseline Assessment This Classroom Secrets resource is a baseline assessment (zip) for the start of Year 5 to assess prior knowledge using the Year 4 objectives. Teachers can use this assessment and results spreadsheet to analyse and address gaps in children’s understanding. This pack includes: Baseline SPaG (GPS) Assessments for Year 5 Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge Answers included

Year 2 Funny Bones Whole Class Guided Reading Comprehension This whole class guided reading pack for Funny Bones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is differentiated for Year 2 and linked to the new National Curriculum objectives. It includes comprehension questions and a challenge activity linked to the book.

KS2 Reading Techniques Practice with a Wimbledon Theme This resource helps children to rehearse skills needed for reading tests by skimming and scanning to identify words and reading quickly for meaning. This worksheet has six differentiated levels (pdf) spanning Years 3 - 6.

This guided reading pack for purple book band readers includes an original poem, comprehension questions; grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary work linked to the text; and answer sheets for the teacher. The poem is about a sprout’s Christmas adventure with Santa.

This whole class guided reading pack is for Year 5 and Year 6 based on Goodnight Mister Tom chapter nine by Michelle Magorian. The pack includes a teacher guide for the chapter, differentiated comprehension questions and follow-up work to practise further reading and GPS skills.

This War Horse Chapter Two Whole Class Reading Comprehension resource includes differentiated questions for Year 5/Year 6 and a follow-up activity, linked to the 2014 National Curriculum Reading objectives to compliment the War Horse Chapter 1 Book by Michael Morpurgo.