Our The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Reading Skills resource focusses upon chapter 7 of the story in which Plop encounters Orion the black cat. We've included questions to help pupils retrieve information, infer, summarise, predict, link ideas and explore different vocabulary. Answers are also included with the pack.

National Curriculum Objectives:

English Year 3 & Year 4: Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.

English Year 3 & Year 4: 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.