This LKS2 Reading Skills The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark resource focusses upon chapter 5 of the story in which Plop becomes a model for a young lady's drawing. We've included questions to help pupils retrieve information, infer, summarise, predict, link ideas and explore different vocabulary. We've also included the answers to save you time!

National Curriculum Objectives

- Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.

- Understand what they read by explaining the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; - identifying main ideas and summarising these; and identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.