Y6

Reading

Reading Skills - Faith in Fossils

Worksheet
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Explore this compelling narrative reading activity, this amazing comprehension has been designed to help your pupil understand comprehension.

This intriguing narrative text about a little girl who had a keen eye on fossils to help his family might motivate your pupils and help them with reading comprehension year 6, it contains a narrative text detailing key events in the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries, along with a choice 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.