This Cloze activity is designed to support understanding of the vocabulary needed to pass ISEB and 11plus testing. This is a good way to assess if the children understand the words’ meanings in context.

Fully comprehensive resource that uses VIPER style questions. It is organised in the manner of 11+ style exams. It is suitable for Year 4/5 and for some children who need a little bit more support in Year 6.

Fully comprehensive resource that uses VIPER style questions. It is organised in the manner of 11+ style exams. It is suitable for Year 4/5 and for some children who need a little bit more support in Year 6.

Fully comprehensive resource that uses VIPER style questions. It is organised in the manner of 11+ style exams. It is suitable for Year 4/5 and for some children who need a little bit more support in Year 6.

This resource is suitable for children in Year 3 who are studying the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. I have also used this resource to teach an EAL student in Year 5. The activity looks at vocabulary, retrieval, inference, visualisation and prediction.

Comprehension Activity, suitable for Year 3 and EAL learners

Comprehension task based on Street Child. Covers VIPER. Some specific grammar review and includes a creative writing task also. Suitable for 11+ prep.

Comprehension, VIPER, grammar. Suitable for 11+ prep.

This is an artifact hunt suitable for Yr3/4 ancient Egypt unit of inquiry. The photos are from the British Museums website, I have just collated them into a scavenger hunt to give direction to shool trips. We went last Friday and it was great fun.

An extract from The Secret Garden, that foucses on vocabulary building and different levels of comprehension.

11+ revision handout to help support understanding elelments of sentence structure. Clear and easy to follow.

This is a simple comprehension resource to support the understanding of Chapter2. It has a variety of comprehension questions and word work.

Comprehension task that focuses on word meaning and retrieval.