I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
Year 5 and 6 reading comprehension based on esafety and keeping safe on the internet. 22 mark reading comprehension. Comprehension discusses the stranger dangers associated with online gaming/use, gaming addiction and how to look after yourself during online activities.
Reading comprhension covers the following areas in the questioning.
information retrieval
word comprehension/synonyms
Fact and opinion
inference
Answers are included for ease of marking
Contains some original wording from the Shakespeare script. Some of the names and places are local to me and can be easily adapted to suit other geographical regions. I had my year 6s perform this as a film and it worked very well. Both children and parents greatly enjoyed the experience.
Newspaper article with reading comprehension.
Bonus 1 page grammar and punctuation quiz.
Suitable for SATs practise.
Questions include:
retrieval
Newspaper features
inference
fact and opinion
true and false
time ordering
Answers are included for ease of marking.
1 page of reading - Oliver Twist Reading Comprehension for Year 5 and 6.
Text is taken from the opening page of Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
Some text has been altered to make it less antiquated and age appropriate so it is not entirely the original text (but it is close and the same in meaning).
24 mark reading comprehension (with answers for ease of marking).
retrieval
inference
fact and opinion
true and false
word comprehension and synonym
Second in series of SPAG/GPS quick quizzes that gradually work through the different aspects of the GPS curriculum. Ideal for early and gradual preparation for the GPS SAT paper in May. Can be used as knowledge retrieval exercise or as a lesson plenary.
Answers included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking or quick feedback.
50 mark quiz.
First in series of SPAG/GPS quick quizzes that gradually work through the different aspects of the GPS curriculum. Ideal for early and gradual preparation for the GPS SAT paper in May. Can be used as knowledge retrieval exercise or as a lesson plenary.
Answers included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking or quick feedback.
50 mark quiz.
Third in a series of SPAG/GPS quick quizzes that gradually work through the different aspects of the GPS curriculum. Ideal for early and gradual preparation for the GPS SAT paper in May. Can be used as knowledge retrieval exercise or as a lesson plenary.
Answers included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking or quick feedback.
50 mark quiz.
Poem about an old oak tree that discusses getting old and seeing better days. Useful for examples of metaphor and alliteration, with other poetry conventions.
20 mark comprehension quiz to accompany the poem, incorporating:
**inference
retrieval
fact/opinion
true/false
chronological ordering
**
Exercise is accompanied by an answer sheet (separate file) for ease of marking.
Good practice in the run-up to the SAT reading paper as poetry may be one of the reading sections (it was last year!).
Hope you enjoy.
Report/documentary style reading comprehension (fictional!) on UFO and alien sightings in Fieldmarsh Forest. Two Spooky accounts, with fact boxes, documenting alien and UFO sightings since 1964. 20 mark question scheme for children to answer. Style of questions modelled on SAT reading papers.
Contains examples of:
True/false
Fact/opinion
Chronological sequencing
Inference
Recall/retrieval
Separate answer sheet file is included for ease of marking.
Hope your children enjoy!
A short one page of A4 text reading comprehension accompanied by a 10 mark quiz/comprehension.
Text is organised to demonstrate a chronological report - written in the present tense.
Questions are based on:
retrieval
true and false
synonyms
word comprehension
finding and copying information
interpreting information in the text
Task is ideal for individual learning, group guided reading and online learning.
Available in both Word and PDF formats. Answers enclosed for ease of marking.
Simply titled ‘Bed’, this is a short poem (text on 1 side of A4) reading comprehension with 6 accompanying questions (10 marks available).
Ideal for a half hour reading exercise to hone skills in:
retrieval
inference
features of poetry
synonym
word comprehension
Answers are included for ease of marking and available in both Word and PDF formats for online learning.
A full four operations workout that provides a workout of multiplication facts to begin with before helping to maintain pupils’ skills in both fluency and application. 6 questions based on arithmetic from basic addition and subtraction to long multiplication and division. 6 questions based on solving word problems with varying amounts of steps.
1 star, 2 star and 3 star sheets. Ideal for self-differentiation or directed. It is also ideal to send for online learning.
Answer sheets are included for ease of marking.
Available as Word and PDF so can easily be assigned electronically.
Short Halloween poem that can be read just for comprehension or performed as a rap, either through guided reading, in groups or as a whole class.
Poem is accompanied by a 17 mark reading comprehension quiz that focuses on:
fact/opinion
retrieval
synonyms
true and false
chronological ordering
Separate answer sheet is included for ease of marking.
Short passages that provide children with an inference workout with the purpose of answering 3 mark questions. Questions draw on inference where children need to justify answers, provide evidence from the text and provide information from text where meanings are not explicit.
All answers provided for ease of
Collection of short texts that make up the one page reading comprehension collection. Each comprehension has a selection of questions based on:
retrieval
true or false
fact or opinion
word comprehension and synonyms
inference
All answers are included for ease of
A reading comprehension resource suitable for years 5 and 6. The story is a four page short spooky storyin keeping with the Halloween time of year. The reading paper is accompanied by a 2 page comprehension that has a mixture of questions ranging from inference, retrieval, true/false and fact/opinion.
The text can be used for either group guided reading, whole class guided reading or individual independent reading. It is also a good resource in that its questioning is aligned to the style found in year 6 reading SAT papers.
In terms of GPS and story preparation, the story text can also be used to identify different features as it uses a broad variety of the following:
subordination
coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
dialogue
simile
multi-clause sentences
instances where semicolons are used to demarcate main clauses
Answers are enclosed in the package for ease of marking.
Short one page reading comprehension about a guardsman patrolling a castle at night.
9 mark reading quiz (comprehension) included. Questions focus on:
retrieval
inference
word comprehension
Ideal for guided reading, whole class reading, extension task or generally for creative writing teaching.
Answers are included for ease of marking.
An exercise where children will have to study two sets of temperature data produced in Excel. They will need to interpret this data and answer questions relating to difference, negative numbers in context, more than, less than etc.
A good task to demonstrate current understanding and track progress in data handling. Also a useful exercise in the run-up to the SATs as reading line-graphs and interpreting negative numbers in context is often present.
An exercise children can do in pairs, groups or individually based on identifying subordinate clauses and conjunctions.
I find that children often get confused when asked to underline either clauses or the conjunctions. This is a good exercise to get them used to what the vocabulary is referring to.