Want to teach your Year 6 pupils how to avoid common errors when answering inference questions? This PowerPoint goes through three common SATS inference errors, one by one. There’s plenty of change to practise, with two texts (and sets of questions) per error.
The errors covered are:
Not using the clues (not using the evidence to help answer the inference question
Short answers (missing key parts of the answer and, thus, missing out on marks)
Dangerous general knowledge (using general knowledge in a SATS answer, rather than using the text to answer the question).
With six enjoyable texts and six sets of questions (three questions per text), there is plenty of SATS reading practice to be carried out here.
Please note that this resource is not editable for terms of use reasons.
SATS Reading Year 6 3 Mark Question Lesson
This download is a 3 mark question Year 6 SATS practice PowerPoint. It has been designed to be used by Year 6 teachers to help prepare for the reading SATS test by giving the pupils the opportunity to practise answering three mark questions.
There are three sample texts in this 28-slide resource. For each text, there is a walk-through, step-by-step guide to answering a three mark question. There is then a new question for pupils to try independently. The answer is then given for the teacher to reveal so that pupils can check against this.
Covered in this resource is:
*Finding two completely separate points
*Finding the supporting evidence
*Structuring your answer
*Explaining your answer
Fact or Opinion Mystery Activity
Why not make teaching fact or opinion a bit more fun? his upload is a fact or opinion mystery activity. In this reading lesson activity, students must solve the mystery to work out which suspect stole the head teacher’s chocolate bars!
Throughout the activity, students will be given sources containing evidence (facts). These take the form of diary entries, a newsletter extract and even a wanted poster! Students must identify the facts and not get distracted by the opinions, which are also hidden in there. By gathering the facts, they can exclude suspects from their inquiry. At the end of the activity, there is just one suspect remaining. The mystery is solved!
*Included:
A 20 page PowerPoint (with some interactive elements)
A whole unit of work with all resources included. It consists of six presentations (one is an introduction and the other five are complete lessons) and four worksheets with opportunities for extra challenges to stretch more able pupils where appropriate. Pupils are tasked with coming up with a vegan dish which will compete with meat-based dishes on the school lunch menu.
The lesson teaches pupils to:
*Use internet search terms correctly
*Know the important components of a vegan diet
*Carry out market research to decide on final dish
*Cost a dish (for the whole school) and ensure good value for money
*Advertise the dish to fellow pupils
*Use persuasive language to encourage the catering manager to make the dish and fellow pupils to buy it
A variety of subjects are covered: DT, business studies, English and maths. The slides could be easily edited to suit the school and the desired outcome.
Could be used as a Year 6 enterprise project.
Inference Reading Lesson / Whole Class Reading
This PowerPoint is an inference reading comprehension lesson for Key Stage 2. It includes a teacher presentation and pupil tasks. There are three differentiated challenges for each extract so that pupils can apply their inference skills.
Pupils learn:
what is inference?
clues that they need to use inference skills
how to answer inference questions
Included: Editable PowerPoint (tasks included on PowerPoint) and PDF version to print the tasks.
Mayan Gods Poems Comprehension
This Mayan gods poems comprehension reading and history activity includes four poems about Ancient Mayan gods and goddesses. Each one then has a set of questions for pupils to revise their knowledge of each deity. This also gives pupils the chance to practise their reading comprehension skills. The deities covered are: Itzamna, Chaac, Ix Chel and Kinich Ahau.
The cross-curricular nature of this activity means that children will be able to practise both their history skills (learning about Ancient Mayan gods) and reading comprehension skills at the same time.
The comprehension questions include retrieval and inference questions and also author’s intent and vocabulary ones. There are a mix of circle the answer, one word, one sentence and longer answers. Some questions require evidence from the text. All answers are included (sample answers where more than one answer would be acceptable).
What’s included?
4 poems about Ancient Mayan gods and goddesses
4 sets of questions (one about each god or goddess). Five questions per god / goddess
4 sets of answers
Y6 SATs Reading Revision Common Errors Retrieval
Do you find your Year 6 pupils continuously make the same errors in SATs practice papers? Then this is the lesson for you! The session covers three common errors when answering retrieval questions: red herrings, misquotes and avoiding answering altogether. They are given steps for avoiding these errors, practice questions and the opportunity to write their own questions to catch out a partner. Altogether there are six short texts included in the resource.
The structure of the activity is:
How to avoid red herrings
Short text and questions to practise avoiding red herrings
Answers
New text for pupils to use to write their own questions for a partner (can they catch them out using red herrings?).
Answers - sample questions
How to avoid misquotes
Short text and questions to practise avoiding misquotes
Answers
New text for pupils to use to write their own questions for a partner (can they catch their partner out?).
Answers - sample questions
How to avoid avoidance
Short text and questions to practise avoiding avoidance
Answers
New text for pupils to use to write their own questions for a partner (will their partner avoid the questions?).
Answers - sample questions
Recap - plenary
Answers to plenary questions
What’s included?
A 22 slide PowerPoint
Y6 SATs SPAG Revision Quiz
This download is a Year 6 SPaG SATs revision SPaGbot Quiz. Help your Year 6 class revise for their SPaG SATs paper with a fun, interactive quiz!
On the menu page, pupils can choose to answer a SPaGbot question (SPaG revision focused), a Funbot question (a fun, pop-culture or sports question) or a lucky dip question (mix of SPaG and fun questions).
There are:
15 SPaGbot questions
15 Funbot questions
10 lucky dip questons
Are you looking for Christmas worksheets for reading for your class? This set of Christmas reading comprehension questions focuses on the Christmas story, with a Christmas reading passage and 12 task cards, plus KS2 reading challenge cards. The story, Starbright’s Important Mission, tells the Christmas story through the eyes of the star. There are then 12 task cards requiring the children to reflect on their understanding of the story.
The task cards focus on skills such as:
Be an emotion detective: describe the emotion of the characters at specific points of the story
Draw ‘mood journeys’ for three of the main characters
Find the evidence to support key information
Longer answers, requiring students to quote accurately from the text
There are answers provided for each of the reading comprehension task cards. The answers are detailed and thorough, with sample answers where necessary.
After the main task cards, there is also an example card, so that the children know what the ‘mood journeys’ should look like. There are also three challenge cards, to extend pupils’ learning if needed.
The passages and activities could be printed out and given to students as a pack. This would make it perfect for a Christmas supply teacher lesson.
There’s not much to prepare… All you need to do is print the sheets out and hand to your class.
Female Football Heroes Biography Lesson
Inspired to teach your pupils more about female footballing heroes? This female football heroes biography lesson teaches pupils about some of the greats in women’s football, whilst also teaching / revising biography writing skills. They learn about six of the best female football players of all time and choose one to write a biography about.
Also included in this resource is a template that all / some of your students can use to structure their biography, a quotation-writing worksheet and a sheet of illustrations, which pupils can use to illustrate their biography.
What’s included?
Lesson PowerPoint packed full of facts/activities
Three supporting printables
England Lionesses Euros Comprehensions
Capture the excitement of the England Women’s Euro 2022 winning team with this set of four reading comprehension tasks. Each set focuses on a different team member (four in total). Each of these four England Euro 2022 activities feature a text for pupils to read all about the player. There are then five questions about each one.
The comprehension questions are a mixture of retrieval, inference, author’s intent, support with evidence and agree/disagree questions (amongst others). There is an answer page for each activity too, featuring sample answers to help with assessing work.
This resource contains:
Four texts focusing on England women’s Euro 2022 team members
A set of five questions for each team member
An answer sheet for each member
Image credits
Perfect Year 6 Easter Holiday Reading Homework!
Do you need the perfect Easter themed reading comprehension? This one is interactive and would be perfect for your Year 6 students as Easter holiday reading homework. All answers to the 20 tasks are given to students, so no marking required.
This interactive Easter reading comprehension is designed to be as inclusive as possible with no written answers required. Where appropriate, there are Explain It thought bubbles for students to explain their answers on paper. These could be set for all students, or just those requiring more of a challenge. us d
Easter themes (new beginnings) are introduced, giving opportunity for RE links. I also like to explore different family types in my stories. This one features a boy, his step mum and baby brother.
What’s Included?
A 20 question interactive PowerPoint, also including correct/incorrect slides
Inference Maze - KS2 Fun Inference Activity
Looking for a fun way to teach or revise inference in reading lessons with your KS2 students? In this activity, pupils must use their inference skills to guide TV presenter, Mya, through a maze.
The PowerPoint revises the meaning of inference before guiding pupils through the process of finding Mya’s route through the maze. At each step, there are two objects to follow. Pupils must use infer which object to select from the clues given by Mya. At each step, answers are given so that pupils know if they are on the right track.
Make reading lessons more fun and use this fun activity to reinforce the meaning of inference!
Included:
*50 slide PowerPoint (including answers) guiding students through the activity
Printable PowerPoint handout with student copy of maze
Reading Ordering Events Mystery KS2
This order the events and solve the mystery reading comprehension activity is a fun way to help your students learn how to order events in a text. They have to order the events to solve the mystery of who threw the ice bucket of water over Mr Lee, everyone’s favourite Year 5 teacher!
In this activity, students are given accounts written by each of the five suspects. They must order the events to check who is telling the truth. By the end of the activity, they will be able to see who is lying and therefore who threw the ice bucket!
The activity teaches students how to use a colour-coded key to help order the events. With this in mind, there is a separate copy of the texts for pupils to use to practise this technique.
What’s included?
14 slide solve the mystery activity (PowerPoint)
3 page pupil copy of texts
Father’s Day Writing Lesson Emotive Language
This download is a Father’s Day writing lesson to teach Key Stage 2 pupils how to improve their use of emotive language. Pupils can choose to write the emotive letter to their father (for Father’s Day) or a special person in their lives. Although their is a mention to Father’s Day at the beginning, the lesson is designed to be inclusive of all family types.
Pupils learn to elicit emotion through:
Using the power of three
Using superlative adjectives
Using abstract nouns
Using examples to illustrate points
Pupils are tasked with writing the letter to a special person in their lives (which could be their father) to tell them why they are special to them. There are three differentiated challenges to allow pupils to stretch themselves.
The lesson guides pupils through the planning and writing process, with teacher examples and tasks given along the way.
Included: PowerPoint teacher’s presentation and PDF version of the same presentation.
Abstract Nouns Lesson Bundle
The perfect bundle for teaching your students about abstract nouns! First, use the fun, informative and clear lesson presentation to give pupils an in-depth understanding of abstract nouns. Next, test their knowledge in the interactive quiz!
Includes:
1 x lesson presentation
1 x interactive 20 question quiz
SPaG / GPaS Lesson Starters Mystery Name
These downloads are SPaG starters. There are 15 grammar starters. Each with a theme e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, synonyms and antonyms . Each activity reveals one letter of the bear’s name. By the end of the week, the bear’s name is revealed. Answers for each day and the end of the week are included.
Could be done as a whole class activity, or the slides could be printed so that pupils can complete individually or in pairs.
Determine the Theme of a Poem
This download is a determine the theme of a poem set of two poems with accompanying task cards. The two poems each have four task cards with accompanying answer cards related to determining the themes.
Included in this resource:
2 poems
8 task cards
6 answer cards (2 activities do not need answer cards)
This no-prep vocabulary reading comprehension activity teaches students about:
Figurative language - similes and metaphors / personification / hyperbole
Connotative vocabulary
There are six poems, which are spring and summer themed, and then six task cards, each with their own accompanying answer card.
NO PREPARATION REQUIRED
The texts and task cards require no preparation and could be printed out or completed on PowerPoint). The answer slides give students the opportunity to self-check or aid the teacher in their marking.
ENGAGING ACTIVITIES
The six task cards are completed in a number of different ways. There are questions to answer, tables to complete and ordering activities. Each task card has its own answer card too. Teachers can use these for marking work, or students can use if the task has been set as distance learning.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
6 poems - spring and summer themed
6 task cards
6 answer cards
20 pages total
This poetry reading comprehension supports students in distinguishing their own point of view from the author (or in this case, the poet). There are six poems in which the poet expresses their point of view on a particular topic. the accompanying six task cards then ask students to consider how their own point of view compares.
NO PREPARATION REQUIRED
The poems and task cards require no preparation and can be printed or completed digitally (on slides). The tasks are open-ended, meaning there is no right or wrong answer. There is therefore no need for an answer key.
A RANGE OF POEMS
The six poems cover a variety of contentious topics such as:
-Not wanting a pet
-Only having a small number of friends
-Digital books are a bad idea
-We must stop throwing away so much waste
-Being bored indicates a lack of imagination
The poems are written in such a way to encourage students to decide whether they agree or disagree.
ENGAGING ACTIVITIES
The six task cards are completed in a number of different ways. There are questions to answer, tables to complete and longer, open-ended tasks.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Six poems
Six task cards
Twelve slides total