This Year 1 and Year 2 Rise and Read resource includes four reading activities focused on the jazz musician Louis Armstrong. It is suitable for use in Years 1 and 2 and could be displayed on the whiteboard as early morning work, used in reading or music lessons or even as a stimulus in assemblies. However you choose to use it, children will not only sharpen their reading skills but also learn more about this famous man.

The pack includes two information texts, a diary and an image. These lead to questions which focus on a variety of reading skills: retrieval, vocabulary, inference and prediction. There is also an assessment-style question with a focus on choosing true and false statements based on the text.

This resource does not require any printing as it has been specially designed to be displayed on the whiteboard.