A short, differentiated non-fiction extract taken from Bill Bryson’s ‘Notes from a Small Island’, accompanied by some short comprehension and analysis tasks.

A short extract taken from H.G. Wells’ ‘The Red Room’ accompanied by a range of questions to support text comprehension and retrieval practice.

Students can use different colours to correctly identify the name of each piece of punctuation and then match each piece of punctuation to the correct definition. This could also be used as a cut, sort and stick activity.

A short extract taken from the opening of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, accompanied by some comprehension style questions, highlight and annotate tasks, and sentence starters to be used in response to an exam/essay style question.

A short extract taken from George Orwell’s autobiographical essay ‘Such, Such were the Joys’, complete with a range of comprehension and analysis tasks.

A non-fiction extract on medieval castles taken from ‘The National Archives’, complete with a range of Literacy and comprehension tasks.

A short extract taken from Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ with a range of comprehension and language/structural analysis tasks.