Reading at KS1

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Reading at KS1
Main Subject
Key stage
Resource type
Teaching pack

Embed key reading strategies and comprehension skills in your younger learners.

This beautifully-designed pack focuses on 10 key skills: listening; sequencing; using what you know; checking for sense and self-correcting; making inferences; answering and asking questions; making predictions; discussion; identifying cause and effect and role-play.

What's included?

  • 12 texts and 72 engaging resources, including answer sheets where relevant
  • supporting PowerPoint presentations
  • opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
  • includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
  • links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Introduction (pages 4-7)

Unit 1 – Listening skills (pages 8-21)

  • Session 1 - Retelling Rapunzel
  • Session 2 - Using precise language
  • Resource printouts
    • Rapping Rapunzel – original text
    • Rapping Rapunzel: PPT
    • Rapping Rapunzel: comprehension questions
    • Rapping Rapunzel: retelling with pictures
    • Rapping Rapunzel: spot the rhyming words
    • Rapping Rapunzel: comparing versions
    • Rapping Rapunzel: character comparison

Unit 2 – Sequencing skills (pages 22-36)

  • Session 1 - Sequencing Rapping Rapunzel
  • Session 2 - Story map
  • Resource printouts
    • Rapping Rapunzel: main events, starters and transition words
    • Rapping Rapunzel: Story wheel
    • Rapping Rapunzel: comic strips
    • Rapping Rapunzel: story sequence
    • Rapping Rapunzel: message in a balloon
    • Rapping Rapunzel: story maps

Unit 3 – Using what you know (pages 37-51)

  • Session 1 - Birds of Prey
  • Session 2 - An Owl Called Alfie
  • Resource printouts
    • An Owl Called Alfie: original text
    • Birds of prey
    • Golden eagle: label the diagram
    • Fact cards: birds of prey
    • Owls
    • Owl labels
    • Fact cards: owls
    • An Owl Called Alfie: comprehension questions

Unit 4 – Checking for sense and self-correcting (pages 52-66)

  • Session 1 - The reader’s tool kit
  • Session 2 - Character traits
  • Resource printouts
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel' by the Brothers Grimm: original text 1
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': translation by Margaret Hunt 1884
    • Decoding strategies
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': sentence scrambles
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': cloze
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': bingo
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': main events
    • 'Jorinda and Joringel': opening paragraph

Unit 5 – Making inferences (pages 67-84)

  • Session 1 - Reading detectives
  • Session 2 - Character traits
  • Resource printouts
    • The Forgotten Princess: original text
    • Character photos
    • Inference cards
    • The Forgotten Princess: comprehension
    • A day in the life of Princess Emily
    • WAGOLL – for a day in the life of Cinderella
    • The Forgotten Princess: opening paragraph PPT
    • The Forgotten Princess: characters
    • The Forgotten Princess: character traits

Unit 6 – Answering and asking questions (pages 85-101)

  • Session 1 - Stone Soup – Asking questions
  • Session 2 - Stone Soup – answering questions
  • Resource printouts
    • Stone Soup: original text
    • Judge a book by its cover
    • Finding answers to questions
    • Stone Soup: how the story ends (version 1)
    • Stone Soup: how the story ends (version 2)
    • Stone Soup: reading comprehension dice game
    • Stone Soup: DIY question dice
    • Stone Soup: Powerpoints

Unit 7 – Making predictions (pages 102-120)

  • Session 1 - What happens next?
  • Session 2 - Jane the Giant Killer
  • Resource printouts
    • Jane the Giant Killer: Story starter: original text
    • Touchy feely
    • What happens next?
    • Fortune teller
    • Predict the household dangers
    • Next in Jane the Giant Killer
    • Story planner
    • Survival drama
    • Survival drama in the Andes PPT
    • Predictive questioning
    • Jane the Giant Killer PPT

Unit 8 – Discussion (pages 121-138)

  • Session 1 - A trip to the zoo
  • Session 2 - Zoo complaint
  • Resource printouts
    • The secret diary of Liza Piza aged 9 ¾: original text
    • Class 6 trip to Pidley Zoo by Ryan Lyon: original text 2
    • A letter of complaint to the zoo: original text 3
    • Reply to the zoo complaint: original text 4
    • Zoo comprehension
    • Compare the accounts: a difference of opinion
    • What to see and do at the zoo
    • Zoo map
    • Letter comprehension
    • Zoo reply

Unit 9 – Identifying cause and effect (pages 139-160)

  • Session 1 - Cause and effect
  • Session 2 - Exploring cause and effect with stories
  • Resource printouts
    • Cause and effect PPT
    • Cause and effect card game
    • What is the cause?
    • Causes that need effects
    • Find your cause and effect partner
    • Cause and effect in The Forgotten Princess
    • The Forgotten Princess – Eight causes and effects
    • A chain of events
    • Blank cards

Unit 10 – Role play to explore characters (pages 165-171)

  • Session 1 - Role play: An Owl Called Alfie
  • Session 2 - Role play: The Forgotten Princess
  • Resource printouts
    • Emotions
    • Shadow puppets
    • Preparing for role-play: questions
    • The Forgotten Princess: role-play cards
Reading at KS1
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Have you used this resource?

5

20/07/2020

5

12/04/2020

5
Am using it with my great nephews and nieces, 3 years to 10!! on 'holiday' from school, here and in America and I want to show them just how exciting Literature and English Language is! I have the poetry resource also. 3 years might seem very young but, I'm reading to them online. Thank you SO much.

Sue de Gruyther

08/04/2020

5
Excellent resources! Thank you for sharing.

Prema Schwarzacher

05/04/2020

5

20/07/2020

5

12/04/2020

5
Am using it with my great nephews and nieces, 3 years to 10!! on 'holiday' from school, here and in America and I want to show them just how exciting Literature and English Language is! I have the poetry resource also. 3 years might seem very young but, I'm reading to them online. Thank you SO much.

Sue de Gruyther

08/04/2020

5
Excellent resources! Thank you for sharing.

Prema Schwarzacher

05/04/2020

5
Thank you so much for making this resource available.

ibironke olowa

28/03/2020

5

29/06/2019

5

12/01/2019

5

05/01/2019

Thank you Sharron. We hope it will be really useful for you. Do let us know how you and your class get on.

George Rodd

15/08/2017

I am very excited to start using this with my new class. It looks very comprehensive. Well Done !

sharron askew

11/08/2017