Home Learning Pack Reading Levels 4 and 5

Aim:

The aim of this pack is to develop comprehension skills for the new GCSE Level 4 (standard pass) and Level 5 (strong pass). Level 3 work is also included if needed.

Progression:

The pack can therefore allow progression from Level 3 to Level 4 and then on to Level 5.

Key areas:

The comprehension skills focus on: understanding key ideas, explaining, summarizing, analysing language and implied meanings. These outcomes are taken from GCSE Level Descriptors.

This pack includes:

a) Ghostly Goings On work booklet ( 27 pages)
b) Answer booklet for all activities (15 pages)
c) A separate parent/teacher guidance document
d) A sheet explaining what I need to show I can do in regard to comprehension skills at Levels 3, 4 and 5

There are three passages of fiction - short, medium length and longer - with questions to develop these comprehension skills on each passage. The three passages are all from major and respected authors. They are in the ‘ghost story’ genre (hence the title of the pack) .

Differentiation:

The questions are set at different levels - Levels 3, 4 and 5 - for each section - beginning, middle and end - for each passage.

The image you can see is from a painting called The Red Room by Felix Valloton 1898. The classic ghost story ‘The Red Room’ by HG Wells is one of the three extracts from famous ghost stories included in this pack…

Taster sheet included…