A heart-warming story told from the perspective of Rocky the dog. This KS2 Rocky's Christmas Guided Reading Pack includes a variety of questions that require pupils to draw inferences, retrieve information and consider why specific language and punctuation has been used. Children will follow Rocky during the Christmas period and learn of his encounter with a special figure dressed all in red! This pack comes accompanied by additional activities based upon word definitions and sentence structure.

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by discussing words and phrases that capture the readers interest and imagination

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by discussing words and phrases that capture the readers interest and imagination