This PowerPoint is a Year 5 reading comprehension resource based on The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. Throughout the week, pupils explore key extracts from the novel, learn important vocabulary, and answer retrieval, vocabulary, inference, and authorial language questions. The lessons focus on Ade’s relationship with his mum, his responsibilities at home, his feelings, and the challenges he faces as his mum’s wellbeing changes. The final section also includes a science reading comprehension about the Earth, Sun and Moon, helping pupils develop their scientific understanding while practising reading skills.

The booklet is organised into individual printable pages, covering Maths, fractions and decimals, reading, writing, proofreading, everyday learning, the Year 5 checklist, useful resources, and a positive closing message for parents.

This PowerPoint is a Year 5 English unit based on The Boy in the Tower. It helps children develop their understanding of Ade’s character, thoughts and feelings, using evidence from the text. Pupils explore how Ade responds to the mysterious events happening around him before learning the features of diary writing and planning a diary entry from his perspective. Overall, the sequence moves from reading and comprehension skills (character and inference) to writing skills (understanding, planning and preparing a diary entry as Ade), helping children empathise with the main character and write in role.

This PowerPoint is a Week 3 Year 5 reading unit based on The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. It develops a range of reading skills including inference, vocabulary in context, prediction, author’s choice of language, and synonyms through extracts from Chapters 5 and 6. Pupils explore Ade’s worries about his mum, the growing mystery of the strange plants (Bluchers), and how the author creates tension and emotion in the story. The lessons include vocabulary activities, retrieval and comprehension questions, discussion tasks, prediction exercises, and model answers to help children justify their ideas using evidence from the text.

This is a knowledge organiser to support children writing a diary entry.