Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of: The birth of Zeus Theseus and the Minotaur Jason and the Golden Fleece Perseus and the Gorgon

Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes: A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources, An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about Workhouses Learning Objectives • To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, • To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses • To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed. Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to: • recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of Workhouses. • draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of Workhouse. • produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of Workhouses. • produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Workhouses. • Produce their own written narrative of life in a Workhouse

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 use skimming and scanning to answer questions about the opening section of a story. To emphasise with the children in the story. To use skimming and scanning to make sense of a text. To understand how an author can use a letter to summarise a story. To make predictions based on what you have read to date. To be able to empathise with the main characters as they reach the end of their journey. To reflect upon a completed novel / to produce a piece of biographical writing.

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.

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 emphasize with the central character of a novel. To be able to emphasize with two different family members. To recognise the turning point of a story. To relate to the feelings the main character in a book when his luck changes.

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 and retrieval to answer factual questions about the Giraffe, Pelly and Me To use inference and deduction to understand how characters act and feel. To use recall and retrieval to follow the plot of a story. To see how an accomplished 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. 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 series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To make predictions based on what can be learned from a book before reading it. To reflect on how a historical novel begins. To reflect upon a key turning point the novel. To understand how an author drops hints about the importance of certain characters. To understand how one event changes that whole focus of a narrative. To understand how an author uses book conventions to bring tension to a narrative. To reflect on 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 evaluate the opening of a story. To understand how an author develops the relationship between his main characters To understand how an author reflects on larger events beyond the story through the eyes of his characters To draw comparisons between the behaviour of two main characters in a story To make predictions based on what you know of the characters in the story. To reflect on a completed text.

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 reflect on the story start of a new novel. To look at the way that the author use language to create a sense of tension. To look at the way that the author uses language to develop characters To understand how an author builds suspense by slowly revealing a plan. To draw conclusions based on a completed text.

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 reintroduces characters. To use recall to find facts and make deductions about the main characters. To form opinions about characters and justify them using quotes from the text. To understand how additional main characters can be reintroduced in a sequel To empathise with the main character when he is placed in a difficult situation. To use inference and deduction to understand character motives. To reflect on a completed text.

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 and revise opinions about the Victorians To make comparisons between past and contemporary entertainment. To make comparisons between today and the past. To use skimming and scanning to find information for research. To gather information in order to write persuasively. To reflect on a completed text

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 empathise with a character who is going through a divorce. To be able to understand how an author can reveal a character’s personality through interactions with others. To be able to recognise the low point of a novel. To be able to comment on the whole 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 compare your own experience with those of a character in a book. To understand how setting and characters are developed. To understand how dilemmas are introduced into short novels. To understand how heroes triumph against the odds.

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 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 questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests. LOs: To relate Roald Dahl’s childhood to their own, To understand the nature of autobiographical writing.

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 make deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel. To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in a text.