Fully resourced Chinese New Year reading comprehesion lesson Help boost your pupils’ reading comprehension and attainment by teaching the core reading skills and modelling how to answer comprehension questions with this whole class lesson. This pack includes a non-fiction text about Chinese New Year 2024, a Smart Notebook lesson input focusing on three reading skills, a task sheet and answers. The reading skills focused on in this lesson are: retrieving information understanding vocabulary in context making inferences and using evidence to support answers

A writing unit for upper KS2 made up of a series of 16 lessons based on stories from ‘The World’s Worst Children’ by David Walliams. Follows Pie Corbett’s Talk for Writing sequence but can be adapted/resequenced to match other approaches to writing. This unit is fully resourced, including Smart Notebooks and activities for each lesson. Lesson 1: Pulling apart the text Lesson 2: Using direct quotes Lesson 3: Using indirect quotes Lesson 4: Vocabulary and the simple past tense Lesson 5: Journalistic language Lesson 6: Planning Lessons 7-9: Writing (innovate) Lesson 10: Subordinate clauses and drop-ins Lesson 11: Sequencing Lesson 12: Vocabulary and using the dash Lesson 13: Planning Lessons 14-16: writing (invent) Unit also includes a full plan, model text, toolkits, vocabulary mats and examples to base the model writing on.

Fully resourced ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ reading comprehesion unit Boost your pupils’ reading comprehension and attainment by teaching the core reading skills in discrete, whole class lessons. This fully resourced comprehension pack, aimed at Years 4 and 5, focuses on a small extract (2 A4 sides) from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It contains: The extract/text x3 Smart Notebook lesson inputs and task sheets, each focusing on one core reading skill: * Lesson 1: retrieving information * Lesson 2: understanding vocabulary in context * Lesson 3: making inferences and using evidence Answer sheets

Fully resourced non-fiction Sutton Hoo / Anglo-Saxon reading comprehesion unit Boost your pupils’ reading comprehension and attainment by teaching the core reading skills in discrete, whole class lessons. It contains: An original text x3 Smart Notebook lesson inputs and task sheets, each focusing on one core reading skill: Lesson 1: retrieving information Lesson 2: summarising Lesson 3: understanding vocabulary in context Answer sheets

Fully resourced Chinese New Year reading comprehesion lesson Help boost your pupils’ reading comprehension and attainment by teaching the core reading skills and modelling how to answer comprehension questions with this whole class lesson. This pack includes a Story of the Zodiac text booklet, a Smart Notebook lesson input focusing on two reading skills, a task sheet and answers. The reading skills focused on in this lesson are: retrieving information understanding vocabulary in context