Our Year 2, 3 and 4 The Chinese New Year Story Guided Reading Pack is the perfect resource for exploring this well-known story. Using our carefully constructed questions, children will develop reading skills by retrieving information from the text and exploring the meaning of new vocabulary. We've also included an additional task which focusses upon adverbials of time. This resource can be completed independently, in pairs or in small groups.

* understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context

* understand what they read by asking questions to improve their understanding

* understand what they read by drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence

* understand what they read by predicting what might happen from details stated and implied

* understand what they read by summarising the main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph, identifying key details that support the main idea