This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to read and answer comprehension questions using an extract from a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters.

The class can compose and present sentences to predict how the narrative structure of the story might develop following the text extract.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to explore how to read and answer comprehension questions using an extract from a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore the structure and content of an extract from a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters and a set of differentiated worksheets to answer comprehension questions about what happened to the characters in a work of classic fiction.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and answer comprehension questions using an extract from a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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