Printable booklet featuring 5 Skim and Scan activities based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Each activity requires students to locate specific words to aid speed reading. There are also additional vocab questions for extension.

Included is a PowerPoint with 10 SPaG activities. There is also a word document which features printable and editable resources to aid use in the classroom. Notes on PP are also included. All activities are linked to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Coverage includes: Word Classes, Punctuation, Sentence Function, Vocabulary etc.

Ten Christmas-themed reading activities that use fiction, non-fiction, film, poetry and visual literacy examples. Challenges involve inference, vocabulary, P.E.E. & comprehension skills. Challenges are presented on a PowerPoint presentation and also as worksheets in a word document so this could be used in whole class guided reading or as independent work. A range of different texts are included such as Harry Potter, Little Women, and Hans Christian Anderson.