This KS2 Playground Equipment Guided Reading Pack focusses on the features of letters to help develop skills in retrieving information and inferring people's actions and feelings. Children will read a letter from the school council to their headtacher, expressing their concerns about their school playground equipment. This resource contains a variety of different style questions, along with additional tasks focussed on antonyms, apostrophes and sentence openers.

* understand what they read by asking questions to improve their understanding

* understand what they read by drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence

* understand what they read by predicting what might happen from details stated and implied

* understand what they read by summarising the main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph, identifying key details that support the main idea

* understand what they read by identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning

* discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader

* distinguish between statements of fact and opinion