Year 5 reading detectives

Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction.

Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction.

Set questions that gradually progress pupils' skills and deeper understanding of a text
Increase vocabulary and reading stamina with extracts from a rich variety of fiction and non-fiction texts
Evaluate your pupils' responses and help them apply their skills to other texts with guidance from top literacy consultant Rachel Clarke

Included texts:
Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Street Child by Berlie Doherty
Outlaw: The Story of Robin Hood by Michael Morpurgo
Eliza Rose by Lucy Worsley
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Sport for everyone DK Publishing
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Roman Record by Paul Dowswell
Cinderella by Roald Dahl
The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
Savitri and Satyavan by Madhur Jaffrey
Lily and the Lion by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp
Skellig by David Almond