Year 6 Reading Skills – The Pooka

Year 6 Reading Skills - The Pooka

This Year 6 Reading Skills - The Pooka resource contains an extract from a story about a young girl searching for her dog in a mysterious forest and her encounter with an unusual mythical creature 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 6 Reading Skills - The Pooka story
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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