Looking for a creative extract text resource for your pupils, then this Year 3 Legionary Life reading activity might just what you are looking for.

This amazing extract from a diary of a Roman citizen will help your children understand extract text comprehension. It contains the different stages of his training how to become a legionary. What's more it comes along with a variety of questions covering eight reading content domains and questions for more in-depth written answer practice. We've also included some more in-depth questions for more detailed written answers.

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.