Below you will find a variety of free resources to support the teaching of reading for primary pupils.
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Fiction Reading Tasks
A worksheet with a list of adjectives to help students to identify character attributes and provide evidence for their choice.
A graph which allows students to plot the emotions of the characters at different points in a story.
A template to help students to write a short diary entry from the point of view of a character at a set point in a story.
A worksheet with a list of adjectives to help students describe settings and atmosphere providing evidence for their choice.
These bookmarks contain an activity which can be completed after reading a chapter of a fiction story.
Non Fiction Reading Tasks
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when introducing when introducing a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when discussing a page, section, chapter or story extract of a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when introducing an information book.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when discussing an information text.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when discussing and analysing poems.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for using when reviewing a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for analsying persuasive posters, leaflets or adverts.
Reading Questions for year 5 and 6
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when introducing when introducing a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when discussing a page, section, chapter or story extract of a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when introducing an information book.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when discussing an information text.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when reviewing a novel.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 3 and 4. Suitable for analsying persuasive posters, leaflets or adverts.
Reading questions linked to the National Curriculum objectives for year 5 and 6. Suitable for using when discussing and analysing poems.