Learn about the sun and other light sources with this Year 3/4/5 Light and Shadows Guided Reading Pack. Pupils will discover examples of natural and man-made light, before exploring how light travels and how shadows are made. We've carefully created a range of different questions to assess children's understanding, along with vocabulary and GPS activities. Our resource can be used in individually, in pairs or in small groups.

National Curriculum Objectives:

Reading: English Year 3 and Year 4

Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:

- listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks;

- reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.

Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:

- checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context;

- asking questions to improve their understanding of a text;

- drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying - inferences with evidence;

- identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these;

- identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning;

- retrieving and recording information from non-fiction;

- participating in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.

English Year 2

- Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by compounding.

- Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less.

- Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives and the use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs.

English Year 3

- Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them (English Appendix 1).