Reading Skills Checks Big Cats, Cryptids, Ocean Creatures, Weather and Space Year 6
NZ$7.50
Description
Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year Six learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Big Cats, Cryptids, Ocean Creatures, Weather, and Space – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included!
Each pack offers a week of scaffolded activities that develop key reading strategies, with texts rich in descriptive language, fascinating facts, and thought-provoking questions.
What’s Included (in EVERY pack):
A Five-Day Skills Schedule:
- Making Inferences Monday – Read deeply and read between the lines.
- Connect to Text Tuesday – Make personal and text-world connections.
- Wordy Wednesday – Grow vocabulary through context-rich exploration.
- Thinky Thursday – Strengthen comparison, analysis, and reasoning.
- Language Features Friday – Explore figurative language and imagery.
Creative Finisher Menu Activities:
- Design habitats, weather-proof cities, or new planets
- Invent tracking tech for big cats or cryptids
- Build ocean exploration gear
- Graph rainfall, chart orbits, map food chains
- Imagine and write as an animal, alien, or storm!
Five High-Interest Themed Packs:
- Big Cats – Powerful predators from jungles to savannas
- Cryptids – Mysterious beasts like the Yeti and Loch Ness Monster
- Ocean Creatures – From blobfish to mimic octopus and more
- Weather – Storms, clouds, and wild wind
- Space – Shooting stars, astronauts, and more
Answer keys included for all comprehension tasks
Why Teachers Will Love It:
- Curriculum-aligned for Phase 2 of the NZ English Curriculum
- Differentiated tasks and open-ended activities
- Builds vocabulary, comprehension, and critical thinking
- Engaging texts ideal for curious learners
- Print-and-go or project for digital learning
Perfect For:
- Guided reading groups
- Literacy rotations
- Independent work
- Inquiry units (science, conservation, legends, etc.)
- Homework or early finishers
