Sample Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity.

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 understand how a character’s viewpoint affects a story To understand how two characters show their emotions through their actions.

A series of speaking and listening, role-playing, maths and art lessons linked to the short novel The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. Designed for KS1 for Roald Dahl Day

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.

A series of questions questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests. LOs: To relate Roald Dahl’s childhood to their own, To understand the nature of autobiographical writing.

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

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.

This is a first in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history. Learning Objective: To know and understand the history of these islands (Great Britain) as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day. A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the British Isles including: Resource 1: Time-line of the British Isles – with dates Resource 2: Definition cards BC / AD. Resources 3: Timeline of the British Isles – without dates. Resource 4: Time-line Cards Resource 5: Interactive Time-line without dates. A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines. Learning Outcomes: Children will be able to: • Understand how the islands of Britain have changed over time. • Understand the difference between AD and BC • Understand the difference between BC, First millennium and Second millennium. • Understand that dates before Christ are older the bigger the number (cf negative numbers) • Sequence a series of BC and AD dates. • Compare and contrast key events in British history. Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome. (Update - corrects 1 incorrect link in Resource 5 - Interactive Timeline of British isles)

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 - one week sample

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

Two dinosaur texts to support less able children. Comprehensions include text to be read by adult / with children , word search associated with text, word matching to definition, clozed procedure adding vocabulary to create passage about dinosaurs. Can be used in class along side first two dinosaur comprehensions.

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 be able to empathise with a main character.

Set in the Highlands of Scotland around the time of the Battle of Culloden, this short story has a definite twist in its tail. Ideal for any work on historical fiction, this text was written specifically for this purpose. 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 sets a story in the past. To use inference and deduction to understand the main characters’ feelings. To reflect on a completed text. Please note to print the text from Word, select two sided along short edge. This will print the book in A5 book format.

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 deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel. To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in 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 - one week sample

An explanation of how to make best use of the Guided Reading resources provided by MikeRichards in his shop. Includes - 3 different strategies for managing guided reading in your classroom - planning grids for delivering Guided Reading - additional links to Deduction, Inference, Authorial and Literal (DIAL) activities.

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

This Unit is ideal for providing evidence of English across the curriculum. Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes: A collection of nine extended quotes (with summary information) from contemporary sources, An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about Workhouses Learning Objectives • To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, • To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses • To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed. Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to: • Recognise the difference between fact and opinion. • recognise and discern between arguments made for and against education. • draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of universal education. • produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education. • produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of universal education. • Produce their own written narrative of life in a school.

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