This resource offers a range of in-depth questions for chapter 13 of The Last Wild by Piers Torday. The questions cover each content domain along with some focused questions to prompt for more in-depth written answers.

The Last Wild comprehension activity has questions targeted at chapter 13 of this fasinating story about a boy living in a world where animals no longer exist.

This resource can be used individually, in groups or as a class and, where needed, content domains can be separated out and focused on, or all of the domains can be covered collectively.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• English Year 5 & Year 6: Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Understand what they read by exploring the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identifying key details that support the main ideas; and identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.