This Year 6 reading collection contains 11 weeks of planning. Use the resources to complete three lessons over the course of each week.
The resource list sets out each week’s theme, and there’s a separate PowerPoint for each day’s lesson. The text is linked to or included as a PDF. There are some instances where you’ll need to source the text yourself.
Year 6 reading themes
Here are some of the themes covered in this Year 6 reading scheme:
- Pompeii – Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit; Pompeii by Bastille
- Resilience – The Dot by Peter Reynolds; Drive by Incubus; You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed
- Songs – When You Love Someone by James TW; The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics; Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
- Songs from musicals – Speechless from Aladdin; Defying Gravity from Wicked; Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen
Each lesson’s PowerPoint contains vocabulary guides, questions for talk partners and solo tasks.
Also covered in this pack are:
- Population
- Spies
- Spooky openings
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
- Verse novels
- World War 2
You can also download part 1 and part 2 containing lots more planning.
Read more about Ashley Booth’s approach to teaching reading. Browse similar resources for Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5.
Ashley Booth is a Year 6 teacher and phase, maths and reading lead. He is passionate about improving reading. Visit his website.
