This Year 6 reading collection contains 13 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:
- Autism – Can You See Me? by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott; The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
- Children’s classics – Holes by Louis Sachar; The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Northern Lights by Philip Pullman; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome; Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Civil rights – Rosa Parks; A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke; Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
- Evolution – Charles Darwin; Moth by Isabel Thomas
Each lesson’s PowerPoint contains vocabulary guides, questions for talk partners and solo tasks.
Also covered in this pack are:
- Animals including humans
- Critiquing the media
- Drugs and alcohol
- Electricity
- Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Industrial Revolution
- Inspirational women
- Katherine Rundell
You can also download part 2 and part 3 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.
