Reading at KS1

Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners.

This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play.

What's included?

• 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant
• supporting PowerPoint presentations
• opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
• includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Introduction (pages 4-7)

Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21)

• Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel
• Session 2 - Using precise language
• Resource printouts
• Rapping Rapunzel – original text
• Rapping Rapunzel: PPT
• Rapping Rapunzel: comprehension questions
• Rapping Rapunzel: retelling with pictures
• Rapping Rapunzel: spot the rhyming words
• Rapping Rapunzel: comparing versions
• Rapping Rapunzel: character comparison

Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36)

• Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel
• Session 2 - Story map
• Resource printouts
• Rapping Rapunzel: main events, starters and transition words
• Rapping Rapunzel: Story wheel
• Rapping Rapunzel: comic strips
• Rapping Rapunzel: story sequence
• Rapping Rapunzel: message in a balloon
• Rapping Rapunzel: story maps

Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51)

• Session 1 - Birds of Prey
• Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie
• Resource printouts
• An Owl Called Alfie: original text
• Birds of prey
• Golden eagle: label the diagram
• Fact cards: birds of prey
• Owls
• Owl labels
• Fact cards: owls
• An Owl Called Alfie: comprehension questions

Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66)

• Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit
• Session 2 - Character traits
• Resource printouts
• 'Jorinda and Joringel' by the Brothers Grimm: original text 1
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': translation by Margaret Hunt 1884
• Decoding strategies
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': sentence scrambles
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': cloze
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': bingo
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': main events
• 'Jorinda and Joringel': opening paragraph

Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84)

• Session 1 - Reading detectives
• Session 2 - Character traits
• Resource printouts
• The Forgotten Princess: original text
• Character photos
• Inference cards
• The Forgotten Princess: comprehension
• A day in the life of Princess Emily
• WAGOLL – for a day in the life of Cinderella
• The Forgotten Princess: opening paragraph PPT
• The Forgotten Princess: characters
• The Forgotten Princess: character traits

Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101)

• Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions
• Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions
• Resource printouts
• Stone Soup: original text
• Judge a book by its cover
• Finding answers to questions
• Stone Soup: how the story ends (version 1)
• Stone Soup: how the story ends (version 2)
• Stone Soup: reading comprehension dice game
• Stone Soup: DIY question dice
• Stone Soup: Powerpoints

Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120)

• Session 1 - What happens next?
• Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer
• Resource printouts
• Jane the Giant Killer: Story starter: original text
• Touchy feely
• What happens next?
• Fortune teller
• Predict the household dangers
• Next in Jane the Giant Killer…
• Story planner
• Survival drama
• Survival drama in the Andes PPT
• Predictive questioning
• Jane the Giant Killer PPT

Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138)

• Session 1 - A trip to the zoo
• Session 2 - Zoo complaint
• Resource printouts
• The secret diary of Liza Piza aged 9 ¾: original text
• Class 6 trip to Pidley Zoo by Ryan Lyon: original text 2
• A letter of complaint to the zoo: original text 3
• Reply to the zoo complaint: original text 4
• Zoo comprehension
• Compare the accounts: a difference of opinion
• What to see and do at the zoo
• Zoo map
• Letter comprehension
• Zoo reply

Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160)

• Session 1 - Cause and effect
• Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories
• Resource printouts
• Cause and effect PPT
• Cause and effect card game
• What is the cause?
• Causes that need effects
• Find your cause and effect partner
• Cause and effect in The Forgotten Princess
• The Forgotten Princess – Eight causes and effects
• A chain of events
• Blank cards

Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171)

• Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie
• Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess
• Resource printouts
• Emotions
• Shadow puppets
• Preparing for role-play: questions
• The Forgotten Princess: role-play cards