This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘Cinnamon’ by Neil Gaiman. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Classroom Secrets Spring Year 3 GPS Assessment Resource Pack has been created to match our GPS Scheme of Work. It is designed to assess pupil knowledge of all the blocks and small steps covered so far in the Spring term. The assessment is similar to a SATs test, with 17 questions linked to all of the small steps in Spring. The pack includes: The Year 3 assessment with 17 questions The mark scheme with content domain coverage, small step coverage and suggested levels A teacher assessment spreadsheet for gap analysis and suggested levels (Emerging, Developing, Expected and Greater Depth)

End of Year 3 GPS Assessment This resource (zip) is to support teachers with end of year progress assessments by assessing against the Year 3 Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the National Curriculum and English appendix 2. It also includes answers and a tracker sheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 2 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 3 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 7 from ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

KS2 SATs Practice True or False Reading Statements This Classroom Secrets resource (pdf) is differentiated in four levels and includes three or four different text types (narrative, diary extract, instructions and a non-chronological report) with a range of true or false statements in the style of the KS2 Reading SATs Test. The texts are differentiated for Year 5 Developing, Year 5 Secure, Year 6 Developing and Year 6 Secure. Includes answers.

This whole class guided reading pack is for Year 5 and Year 6 based on Kaspar Prince of Cats chapter seven by Michael Morpurgo. The pack includes a teacher guide for the chapter, differentiated comprehension questions and follow-up work to practise further reading and GPS skills.

KS2 Identifying Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions GPS SATs Questions This Classroom Secrets resource is differentiated in four levels to help children practise using conjunctions from the KS2 Sample Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test. Each level has four pdf worksheets. Answers included.

This resource for Chapter 3 of Kaspar - Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo will support teachers to deliver a whole class guided reading session. It includes a teacher guide for the chapter, differentiated comprehension questions and a challenge activity based on the chapter.

This whole class guided reading pack for Kaspar - Prince of Cats Chapter One (free extract available online) is differentiated for Year 5 and Year 6, linked to the new National Curriculum objectives. It includes comprehension questions and a challenge activity linked to chapter 1.

This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapters 1 & 2 from ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 10 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

Year 2 Writing & Whole Class Guided Reading using Rabbit’s Bad Habits Extract This resource includes a differentiated whole class guided reading comprehension and a separate writing activity for Year 2 based on Rabbit’s Bad Habits by Julian Gough. The reading activity includes differentiated questions for the teacher to ask at the end of each page, same questions in comprehension style activity and an activity to practise retrieval skills. The writing activity includes four differentiated prompt sheets to describe their favourite character from the extract.

This whole class guided reading pack is for Year 5 and Year 6 based on Who Let the Gods Out? chapter seventeen by Maz Evans. The pack includes a teacher guide for the chapter, differentiated comprehension questions and follow-up work to practise further reading, and grammar and punctuation skills.

KS1 SATs Reading Practice Find and Copy a Word This Classroom Secrets resource (pdf) is differentiated in three levels and includes three or four different text types (narrative, diary extract, letter and a newspaper report) with a range of ‘find a copy a word’ questions in the style of the KS1 Reading SATs Test. The texts are differentiated for Year 1 Secure, Year 2 Developing and Year 2 Secure. Includes answers.

Year 2 Funny Bones Whole Class Guided Reading Comprehension This whole class guided reading pack for Funny Bones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is differentiated for Year 2 and linked to the new National Curriculum objectives. It includes comprehension questions and a challenge activity linked to the book.

This whole class guided reading pack is for Year 5 and Year 6 based on Who Let the Gods Out? chapter fourteen by Maz Evans. The pack includes a teacher guide for the chapter, differentiated comprehension questions and follow-up work to practise further grammar and punctuation skills.

This Classroom Secrets resource Year 6 Recognising Devices to Build Cohesion lesson pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency, and application and reasoning questions. The varied fluency resource is differentiated in three ways and includes a selection of different questions types. The application and reasoning resource is differentiated in three ways and includes two reasoning question and one application question types.

This free Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation scheme of work has been created to support your teaching of the English National Curriculum. We have grouped the Year 5 objectives into blocks for you to teach throughout the academic year, with each block including guidance on what should be taught. The blocks are broken down into smaller steps to enable your pupils to deepen their understanding of grammar, spelling and punctuation. This resource is Autumn Block 3 for Year 6.