Looking for a dramatic and thrilling resource to help your pupils, then this Year 6 Jungle Fever reading activity might just what you are looking for.

This riveting story extract reading activity about three young explores might motivate your pupils and understand reading comprehension text, it contains an extract from a thrilling adventure story about explorers searching for Mayan treasure, 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.