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Reading Skills - Escape From Pompeii

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Are you looking for a reading resource that offers a range of in-depth questions? This interesting Escape From Pompeii resource is great in providing a range of questions that are organised into content domain to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit, is an interesting story about the city of Pompeii and the day that Mount Vesuvius erupted.

This Escape From Pompeii reading comprehension resource has in-depth questions that can be used individually, in groups or as a class and, where needed, content domains can be separated out and focused on, or all of the domains can be covered collectively.

National Curriculum Objectives:

  • English Year 3 & Year 4: Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
  • English Year 3 & Year 4: Understand what they read by explaining the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; identifying main ideas and summarising these; and identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.