Year 5 Reading Skills – Too Hot to Handle

Year 5 Reading Skills - Too Hot to Handle

This Year 5 Reading Skills - Too Hot to Handle contains a newspaper article reporting on the eruption of a volcano on a small island along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

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This pack includes:

Year 5 Reading Skills - Too Hot to Handle newspaper report
Reading comprehension questions organised by skill
Reading comprehension questions organised by page
Written answer practice questions
Answer reference matrix for easy marking
 

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.

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