In this Varjak Paw Chapter 20 Reading Skills pack, you will find a comprehensive and flexible selection of questions to make discussing this next chapter of S. F. Said's story simple and easy! This resource works brilliantly whether you read with your whole class or smaller groups.

The first section of this resource provides you with questions (and answers) to use as you read the text, arranged by reading content domain and covering all eight of them. This means you can easily choose to focus on one, two or all of them! The second section is a sheet of our written answer practice questions, which are designed to introduce children to the sorts of tasks found on SATs reading papers and help your children to gain the skills and experience they need to answer them confidently. Answers are provided for this section too!

• 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.