This is lesson one in a sequence of four lessons that focus on developing students’ retrieval skills for the KS2 SATs. For each lesson there is an excerpt from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (approx. 2 pages long and the length of a text on the SATs). There is also a series of questions that follow each excerpt (these are all related to developing retrieval skills). The excerpt of text is copyright of the owner - JK Rowling. There is also a PPT presentation included that look at different types of retrieval questions (the ‘tick it’ question, the 5W questions, etc.). I have also included a starter activity for this lesson - this focuses on developing scanning skills.

This is ideal to use for a Year 6 Geography lesson related to ‘Our Changing World’ or ‘Famous Landmarks’. Pupils are shown pictures of famous landmarks and they must answer inference questions based on the pictures. There is also an extension question to extend more able pupils. Answers are provided on a separate Microsoft Word document.