Please note that we do not have reading skills resources for every chapter of this book. Every effort has been made to ensure a wide range of questions have been included in the chapters we have resourced, covering each content domain.

Wondering how to make Skellig by David Almond reading more exciting? This interesting Skellig activity is great for providing a range of questions targeted at chapters 11 & 12. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

This reading comprehension activity for Skellig is the bestselling story about love, loss and hope. When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• English Year 5 & Year 6: Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Understand what they read by exploring the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identifying key details that support the main ideas; and identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.