Year 5/6 planning sheet to help children plan a persuasive holiday brochure about visiting the Taj Mahal. Easy to use and adapt to meet the need of any persuasive holiday brochure for any destination. It provides children with precise sub-heading to make the planning process more effective. Can be used for TV add/ holiday brochure. Key Stage 2/3/4.

***KS2/ KS3 Reading Comprehension *** 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… 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 further chapters or the complete pack visit our TES Shop.

***KS2/ KS3 Reading Comprehension *** 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… 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 further chapters or the complete pack visit our TES Shop.

***KS2/ KS3 Reading Comprehension *** 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… 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 further chapters or the complete pack visit our TES Shop.

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.

This is a resource bank of reading comprehension resources aimed at KS1 children. The Resources include children’s worksheets, vocabulary flash cards, pictures, and a sequencing mapping game. This resource was designed to be taught for a two week reading comprehension unit and incorporates - retrieval, ordering event, vocabulary, susmarising, find and copy activities.

This resource includes a collection of five sets of comprehension questions based on the KS2 reading skills of explaining vocabulary meanings within context, retrieval using the text, interpreting words and phrases and authorial choice of language and style. These questions can be used as quick fire starters before each lesson or as a main taught session after reading that section of the book. The questions are based on the book “Ice Trap” by Meredith Hooper. The templates for the questions can be used and adapted to create further comprehension questions.

“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 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.

***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.

The resources is a notebook with accompanying sheets to use in making the links between the characters in Holes. It will help children to create an inter-connecting web of how the characters are all linked. The second sheet helps children to infer which items/ characters are important and why? It will help them to develop a deeper understanding of the authors thought process in using the items to help bind the story together.

Oliver Twist and Alice in Wonderland . This pack is perfect for live lessons and to upload for students to fill in. The notebook presentation is all you need to teach the sessions, it is perfectly precise. The pack includes four lessons for reading comprehension. Designed for a Year 6 class, but could easily be adapted for lower KS2. It covers the objectives related to: making inference, vocabulary choices, order events, summarising. Mark schemes are included. Four lessons 40 minutes each.

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

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 - 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.

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 *** 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… 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 further chapters or the complete pack visit our TES Shop.

**Full writing sequence **: Including: comprehension, vocabulary building, sentence level work, character descriptions, story planning and writing and finishing with writing a alternative ending paragraph to conclude the unit. This is a writing unit planned around a video clip as the stimulus. Planned with an average Year 6 in mind, but can be easily adapted for lower KS2 , KS1 or Lower KS3. Time required - 7 hours The links to the videos are available at the top of each sheet and all instructions are clearly presented too.