Wondering how to make Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets by Jeanne Willis reading more exciting? This KS1 Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets Reading Worksheets contains a range of questions. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets by Jeanne Willis is a humorous story, it tells how Dr Xargle instructs his class of aliens on the appearance and habits of 'Earthlets' (human babies) before embarking on a field trip to Earth.

Use this interesting Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets resource to teach the content domains for Year 1 and 2. Each differentiated Nim's Island worksheet contains an answer sheet helping you and your students identify mistakes quickly.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• English Year 1: Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher; discussing the significance of the title and events; making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done; and predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
• English Year 1: Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by being encouraged to link what they read or hear to their own experiences
• English Year 1: Explain clearly their understanding of what is read to them
• English Year 2: Understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by answering and asking questions; making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done; and predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
• English Year 2: Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.