Use these vocabulary worksheets for your mixed-ability paired reading. One helps pupils clarify vocabulary with which they’re unfamiliar, and the other provides short tasks for those children who might finish their reading-out-loud early.

See Lucy Jarvis’ full explanation of how she uses these worksheets in her class to help develop pupils’ reading skills here.

Lucy is an assistant headteacher, Y6 teacher and English lead at a primary school in Lincolnshire. 

Similar resources

• Books for topics KS2 – The Grand Hotel of Feelings
• Setting description examples KS2 – Finding Bear WAGOLL
• The Viewer – six weeks of free teaching resources
• English starter activities – Fun and easy ideas
• Talk for Writing model texts – Poppy, Waldo And The Giant by Pie Corbett