100 independent reading activities suitable for 6-7 year olds. Save yourself time and stress with this with these no prep reading printables - enough to last you the whole year. These reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel, as an independent activity whilst the class teacher is reading with a group or even as homework. This product includes 100 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories. There is a variety of activities including word work, spellings, grammar, cut and paste, word searches, as well as 42 reading comprehensions. Plenty of variety to keep children engaged, as well as covering plenty of different skills. Simply print and go, no prep required. Print the whole product at the beginning of the year and you will always have reading activities to hand. Some of the activities are also linked to the year 2 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a frog, materials, plants, recycling, historical figures. Perfest to use them alongside your topic work. Many aspects of the year 2 reading National Curriculum covered. Also perfect for lower ability children in year 3 and up. Also includes a reading journal cover and a tick list of National Curriculum reading standards for assessment. This will help you keep on track with assessing children’s reading skills. Product Includes: 42 Reading Comprehensions plus My Reading Journal front cover National Curriculum Reading Standards Tick List for Year 2 Find the plant words Find the materials words Prefix Re Suffix -less and -est Build compound words Alphabetical order x 2 Describe dog and cupcake Add Adjectives le at the end of a word - cut and paste activity el at the end of a word - cut and paste dge making the j sound - cut and paste dge making the j sound - drawing activity r spelt wr - drawing j/g - cut and paste c making the s sound - cut and paste al at the end of a word - word search ge at the end of a word - word search n sound spelt with gn/kn - dice game n spelt with gn/kn - cut and paste I can read ing words - cut and paste contractions x 2 recycle materials - cut and paste materials 2-4 syllables sort - cut and paste word sort 2-4 syllables - cut and paste Ordering how to make a pizza - cut and paste Ordering how to make breakfast - cut and paste Little Red Riding Hood ordering sentences - cut and paste Draw fairy tale characters Goldilocks ordering pictures - cut and paste Jack And The Beanstalk ordering pictures - cut and paste 3 Little Pigs ordering pictures - cut and paste Draw a front cover Design a front cover Draw the best part of a story Draw and label characters Review your favourite book All about the book Book review Read and draw x 2 I can make inferences x 3 Make a healthy me poster Make a camping poster Word of the day Write a book quiz Draw the characters Contents page

Whole class guided reading forThe Iron Man - Ted Hughes. This is 4 weeks worth of planning. Each lesson contains 1 PowerPoint and 1 worksheet. This was taught in Year 3 but can easily be adapted for Year 4. Planning uses reading vipers and each week focuses on 1 reading viper. Week 1 - Prediction Week 2 - Vocab Week 3 - Inference Week 4 - Summarise Each lesson’s structure is as follows: A think about it question Vocab with word classes Teacher reads Speed retrieval Independent reading Main task (linked to reading viper) I have labelled page numbers on worksheets and ppt, page numbers may different depending on copy of The Iron Man. Please leave a review if you found this useful. Thank you.

These activities are suited to KS2 for guided reading sessions or for use in English lessons to show response to the text. 4 different worksheets with boxes for ‘wonder’, ‘observe’ and ‘infer’ (the 4 images are different ones from the book) Wonder- Children write questions that come to mind when they look at the image Observe - What can they see - be specific, expand your ideas, explain clearly Infer- Children make inferences using clues from the image 1 worksheet comparing an image of a child from the past with the boy in the story. Encouraging children’s use of inference and also to encourage them to explore the differences between the characters. I will be uploading planning and resources for my entire Flotsam unit shortly. Check out my other resources.

Independent reading activities. Over 120 pages of guided reading activities to save you time and stress! Suitable for children aged 5-6 years old. Year 1 UK. These updated reading activities are designed for children to be able to complete independently, as part of a guided reading carousel or even as homework. I have put together over 120 pages of activities that children can do independently whilst still improving their reading skills and their understanding of books and stories. There is a variety of activities starting with very simple phonics activities for lower abilities. The activities get more advanced for use throughout the school year. Some of the activities are also linked to the year 1 curriculum eg the lifecycle of a sunflower, seasons and keeping healthy. All aspects of the year 1 reading National Curriculum covered.Also perfect for lower ability children in year 2 and up. Included in this product: reading journal book cover year 1 national curriculum statements for assessment guided reading timetable 35 reading comprehensions initial sounds cut and stick b or d cut and stick m or n cut and stick c or k cut and stick missing letters draw the word x 3 2 syllable words draw the caption x 3 mixed up sentences x 6 draw the book cover x 2 draw the characters x 2 draw your favourite part x 2 draw the ending x 2 write the tricky words x 2 find the digraph x 2 write the noun x 2 design a new front cover find the nouns/weather words/plant words reading questions all about the book book review x 2 read and colour x 3 read and draw x 3 describe the setting x 2 draw and describe the character x 2 draw the character x 4 draw the setting x 4 where is cat? inference questions x 4 sunflower life cycle make a foldable book label a snail make a wanted poster decode words x 4 word endings x 2 missing words syllables x 2 sequence story x 2 contractions what happens next?

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Years 5/6) In total there are 18 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the sections in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

Slides to help children learn how to read words in context as well as a short extract to analyse with children and answer SATs style questions. Also includes a comprehension sheet.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Included: • Comprehension questions for the first twelve chapters of the book. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores.

This resource is intended to be used to help teach the skills of the KS2 National Curriculum for Reading, by domain. Domains 2b and 2d are weighted more in these comprehensions to match the weighting of the end of KS2 Reading Comprehension assessment. Included: • SATs style comprehension questions for the prologue/preface and the twenty-seven chapters of the novel. • A teaching PowerPoint with an introduction to the author, their other works and copies of the questions. This resource works best if the chapter is read, talked about and discussed in one day, then comprehension questions are given the day after. This resource has been used with both Year Five and Year Six classes to great effect and has boosted their reading skills and their comprehension scores. Please let me know if you found this resource useful. It should save you hours and hours of time.

Whole class guided reading planning for Stone Age Boy. Reading vipers are used for this planning - a different viper used for each week. Each lesson has a PowerPoint and a worksheet. There are 8 lessons in this pack. Week 1: 4 x prediction Week 2: 4 x vocab

12 VIPERS guided reading lessons based on Beowulf (Usborne Young Reading version). Suitable for year3/4. Or can easily be adapted for UKS2. The lessons focus on the first 3 chapters. SEN and challenge resources for each lesson.

Guided Reading Question Slips & Power Points for The Last Wild up to chapter 18 (Ashley Booth Style - Ready to Use) A complete guided reading resource pack featuring printable question slips and matching Power Points, all written in the popular Ashley Booth style. Perfect for Year 5, with a range of carefully structured question types: vocabulary, retrieval, inference, explain, summary, compare and contrast, and prediction. The question slips are designed to be printed, trimmed, and stuck straight into books - ideal for independent work or group tasks. Power Points are included to guide class discussions in whole-class reading sessions. No prep required - everything you need for rich, engaging guided reading, all in one place!

Full 5 week unit guided reading for Who Let the Gods Out. Suitable for UKS2. Opportunities for paired work, group work and independent work Lots of opportunities for class reading, independent reading or reading to the class 8x comprehension and answers Covers retrieval, inference, explaining, predicting, author’s choice, summarising and vocabulary Resources provided Resources given as PDF and word for adapting Slides in PPT, Keynote and PDF format Everything made on a Mac so occasionally formatting needs altering. Lesson 1 - About the author / front cover & blurb Lesson 2 - Paired comprehension Lesson 3 - Reading Lesson 4 - Definition finding Lesson 5 - Definition matching & reading Lesson 6 - Reading Lesson 7 - Group work (independent reading, questionning, summarising, predicting, definition finding on a rotation) Lesson 8 - Paired comprehension Lesson 9 - Independent comprehension Lesson 10 - 3 mark question & reading Lesson 11 - Reading Lesson 12 - Group work (independent reading, questionning, summarising, predicting, definition finding on a rotation) Lesson 13 - Paired comprehension Lesson 14 - Event sequencing Lesson 15 - Reading Lesson 16 - Summarising/predicting what has happened & reading Lesson 17 - Group work (independent reading, questionning, summarising, predicting, definition finding on a rotation) Lesson 18 - Paired comprehension Lesson 19 - Independent comprehension Lesson 20 - Reading & summarising Lesson 21 - Reading & target words Lesson 22 - Group work (independent reading, questionning, summarising, predicting, definition finding on a rotation) Lesson 23 - Paired comprehension Lesson 24 - Independent comprehension Lesson 25 - Reading to the end of the book + reflection

A fully-resourced pack for Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, which includes a Teacher Guide for chapter by chapter resources. Discussion questions; reading comprehension and vocabulary work for every chapter; writing ideas and GPS activities are also included. Each chapter also has reading activities which vary from chapter to chapter but may include: Character analysis Emotion graphs Comparisons Explanations Inference Prediction Drama In total there are 106 files included in this download. This book works well with topics about Space - see the Topic Overview Pack below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12715518

Whole class guided reading for Charlotte’s Web. This is 7 weeks worth of planning. Each lesson contains 1 PowerPoint and 1 worksheet. This was taught in LKS2. Planning uses reading vipers and each week focuses on 1 reading viper. Week 1 - Prediction Week 2 - Vocab Week 3 - Inference Week 4 - Summarise Week 5 - Vocab Week 6 - Inference Week 7 - Summarise Each lesson’s structure is as follows: A think about it question Vocab with word classes Teacher reads Speed retrieval Independent reading Main task (linked to reading viper) I have labelled page numbers on worksheets and ppt, page numbers may different depending on copy of Charlotte’s Web. Please leave a review if you found this useful. Thank you.

Guided reading questions for Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Questions focus on vocabulary, retrieval, inference,author intent, author technique and giving explanations for answers using evidence from the text. Many questions written in KS2 sats reading style. Questions are labelled in red to show skill required e.g V = vocabulary, E = explain etc. Very useful for record keeping and analysing which skills children need more work on. As the chapters in the book are short (and we were aiming to build some reading stamina) questions are set across 2 or 3 chapters at a time. There are 6 or 7 questions in each section - 110 questions in total. Successfully used in Year 6 - children read chapters at home and completed questions in group work. Would be suitable for Year 5 and possibly Year 4 able readers too.

A guided reading worksheet which explores why many African countries have experienced slow development - links to the Slave Trade and colonisation.

Guided reading questions for every Chapter of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Questions written in KS2 SATs style. Each question is tagged as V I P E R S to show the skill required (Vocabulary, Inference, Predict, Explain/Evaluate, Retrieval, Summarise). There are 5 or 6 questions per Chapter. Ideal for Year 5 and 6 and as SATs preparation. Could also be used Year 7.

Prompt cards with some questions that could be asked for both familiar and unfamiliar reading.

helpful to students to practice to infer text

This guided reading activity is about vaccines. Students will read about the historical significance of Edward Jenner’s contributions, understand how vaccines work, learn about the production of antibodies, memory cells, and immune responses. It also briefly addresses the MMR vaccine and autism controversy, and introduces the concept of herd immunity. The activity also includes two research tasks to encourage independent investigation. Ideal for KS3-4 school students, this resource promotes scientific literacy and facilitates discussions on the vital role of vaccines in public health.

Suggested questions and activities for The Iron Man as a Guided Reading text