Explore our brilliant biography text resource to help your pupils, this Year 6 Beatrice Shilling reading activity might just be what you are looking for!

This amazing and motivating biography text resource of Beatrice Tilly, how she used her skills and knowledge to invent the Tilly Orifice, during World War II, this comprehension resource will help encourage your pupils to study and pursue their dreams. This 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 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.