We know that when your class are enjoying a whole-class published text, you often want to explore the text further with different teaching opportunities. We have shared a number of different activities linked to some of our most popular published texts. Don’t forget our reading skills resources allow children to summarise, infer, predict and retrieve details.

Key Stage 1

Reading Skills - The Tiger Who Came to Tea

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr.

Key Stage 1

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Discussion Prompts

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Discussion Prompts activity provides children with different themes to imagine and discuss linking to The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

Key Stage 1

The Day the Crayons Quit Activity

The Day the Crayons Quit Activity encourages children to discuss and write new roles for crayons that feature in The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt.

Key Stage 1

Reading Skills – The Day the Crayons Quit

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt.

Key Stage 1

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch reasoning activity

This The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch Lighthouse Reasoning Activity asks children to consider whether or not they would like to live in a lighthouse and to use their reasoning skills to explain why.

Key Stage 1

Reading Skills – The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch’ by Ronda and David Armitage.

Key Stage 2

Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets Writing Prompt

This Writing Prompt activity encourages children to write descriptions of babies in the style of the aliens that feature in Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets by Jeanne Willis.

Key Stage 2

Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets Labelling Activity

This Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets Labelling Activity encourages children to match the language used in the text with its meaning in Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets by Jeanne Willis.

Key Stage 2

Reading Skills – Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets’ by Jeanne Willis.

Lower Key Stage 2

Stone Age Boy – Cave Painting Activity

This Stone Age Boy - Cave Painting Activity provides children with the opportunity to understand the purpose of cave paintings which is linked to the story 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura.

Lower Key Stage 2

Reading Skills – Stone Age Boy

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about 'Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura.

Upper Key Stage 2

Rooftoppers Chapter 1 Storyboard Sequencing

This activity provides children with the opportunity to develop their sequencing skills by ordering the parts of the text from chapter one of 'Rooftoppers' by Katherine Rundell.

Upper Key Stage 2

Reading Skills – Rooftoppers – Chapter 1

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 1 from ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell.

Upper Key Stage 2

Private Peaceful – Life in the Trenches

This Private Peaceful - Life in the Trenches Research Activity provides children with the opportunity to research life in the trenches during World War I.

Upper Key Stage 2

Private Peaceful – Chapter 7: Character Analysis

This Private Peaceful - Chapter 7: Twenty-Eight Minutes Past One Character Analysis requires children to compare the expectations of Charlie and Tommo as they head off to war.

Upper Key Stage 2

Reading Skills – Private Peaceful – Chapter 1

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 1 from ‘Private Peaceful’ by Michael Morpurgo.