This KS2 At the Seaside Guided Reading Pack uses poetry to help develop reading skills. Pupils will explore new vocabulary, rhyming, alliteration and more, as well as additional tasks that focus on synonyms and irregular verbs. This pack can be used for whole class or small group reading and comes with both a pupil and teacher version.

* maintain positive attitudes to reading and an understanding of what they read by continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks.

* preparing poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience

* understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their * understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context

* understand what they read by asking questions to improve their understanding