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 how effectively an author writes a sequel to the first book in a series. To understand the characters of the two main people in the story. To understand how a new major character can be introduced. To understand how an author chooses words to make a setting seem more authentic. To make predictions at the low point / dilemma of a 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 be able to scan and skim pages to find evidence from a text. To be able to understand the relationship between characters To infer and interpret information from a text. To understand how the author shows the similarities between the German and English soldiers. To understand how and why an author links characters’ fates together. To respond to 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 opinions about a text based on its opening chapter. To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time. To understand how an author builds a sense of tension. To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters. To empathise with the main character. To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news. 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 understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story. To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.

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 we can reach our own conclusions based on the information contained in a text To be able to use deduction and inference to help predict what’s going to happen in a story. To understand the way an author ends a story by drawing ideas together.

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 sells his story to his reader. To understand how an author introduces his main characters. To understand how an author creates a story within a story. To understand how different characters behave when faced with their own dilemmas. To understand how a master story teller weaves different elements of a story together. To understand how an ending of a story links back to its beginning.

A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure. The week’s lessons cover: Revisit / Review Read and write alternative spellings / ai/ ey, ea, eigh and aigh (Week 04 ai sound.pptx) Teach reading, writing and spelling words with /ee/, ea, split digraph e-e Teach / Practice spelling the phase 4 tricky words any, many, please, people Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes Apply reading sentences p142 (Letters and Sounds) Apply writing sentences p149 (Letters and Sounds)

A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure. The week’s lessons cover: Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/oo/ (short – u) Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /or/ au, aw Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words thought, some, because, when Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134 Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes Apply reading sentences p142 Apply writing sentences p149

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 talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information To understand more challenging vocabulary To be able to explain the differences in settings

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO: To answer simple questions based on the text

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

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 read a book for simple information, events and ideas To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers To understand how the author implies things by his use of language. To understand the moral of Roald’s story. To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.

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 uses flashbacks to tell a story. To understand what life was like a hundred years ago. To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative. To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully. To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War. To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.

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 the blurb and cover of a book To make predictions based on what has been read already. To understand how an author can convey impatience in a character. To understand how an author interweaves real life with fantasy To identify key turning points in a story. To understand how an author uses language to convey hidden meanings.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. NB this resource includes each story in Word Format. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions LOs To be able to explain the moral of a story. To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language. To discuss creation myths To use context and verbal clues to decode a text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LO To understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction.

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.