Delve into the life of an astronaut with our fascinating Year 5 Reading Skills An Astronauts Diary. This resource requires children to explore a number of diary entries in order to retrieve and summarise information, make predictions and draw inferences. There is also opportunity for pupils to link ideas and explore the effect of language. We've also included the answers to save you time.

- maintain positive attitudes to reading and an understanding of what they read by continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks

- maintain positive attitudes to reading and an understanding of what they read by reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes

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