Resources and Worksheets

Year 6 Reading Skills – A Silver Encounter

A Silver Encounter resource follows on from 'Silver' and contains an extract from an exciting story about a young boy out in the wilderness along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

KS2 Diwali: Story of Rama and Sita Resource Pack

This KS2 Diwali: Story of Rama and Sita Resource Pack resource pack gives children the opportunity to read, answer questions and sequence the story of Rama and Sita.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Over the River

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Over the River resource contains a short story about a boy who finds himself beside a river in strange and mysterious circumstances along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Archimedes’ Screw

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Archimedes' Screw resource contains instructions on making your own model of an Archimedes' Screw including some information about the history of this invention along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – War Child

This Year 6 Reading Skills - War Child resource contains an extract from a story about a sudden and unexpected scary event affecting a young girl's morning at her school along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Poem

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Poem resource contains a poem about poems and their purpose, and the variety of interpretations, thoughts and ideas they can lead to, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Shackleton’s Endurance

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Shackleton's Endurance resource contains a text detailing the events of Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica on his ship Endurance along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Dressing the Victorian

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Dressing the Victorian resource contains a first-person narrative from the point of view of a young deaf girl helping a Victorian lady to dress in the fashionable formal clothing of the time along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – The Climate Crisis

This Year 6 Reading Skills - The Climate Crisis resource contains a non-chronological report on climate change, its effects on wildlife and what actions humans are taking to reduce its impact along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Red Robber Robs Regal

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Red Robber Robs Regal resource contains an intriguing newspaper article about a mysterious theft at a stylish hotel along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – The Pooka

This Year 6 Reading Skills - The Pooka resource contains an extract from a story about a young girl searching for her dog in a mysterious forest and her encounter with an unusual mythical creature along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Forest Tracks

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Forest Tracks resource contains an exciting story of Onni, a young Sami boy living in northern Finland, who enters a race through the cold winter forests along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Beatrice Shilling

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Beatrice Shilling resource contains a biography of British engineer Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling's life including the creation and development of her most famous invention, the Tilly Orifice, during World War II along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Faith in Fossils

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Faith in Fossils resource contains a narrative text detailing key events in the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries of dinosaur fossils along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – The Penicillin Diaries

This Year 6 Reading Skills - The Penicillin Diaries resource contains several extracts from the fictional diary of Alexander Fleming detailing the discovery and development of the first antibiotic medicines along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Ella of the Tree

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Ella of the Tree resource contains a moving story about a girl and her family secretly living in a Swedish forest along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Silver

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Silver resource contains an extract from an exciting story about a young boy undertaking a mysterious quest for his tribe out in the wilderness along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Light

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Light resource contains a poem retelling the amazing events on the night of Jesus's birth along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – The Naughty List

Year 6 Reading Skills - The Naughty List resource contains a Christmas story about mishaps, accidents and an unhappy Santa; with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Notes on the Diary of a Witch

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Notes on the Diary of a Witch resource contains an extract from the diary of a woman living in a village in the year 1645 just as Matthew Hopkins - the dreaded Witchfinder - arrives.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Jungle Fever

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Jungle Fever resource contains an extract from a thrilling adventure story about explorers searching for Mayan treasure along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.