Teach day and night, the Earth’s rotation and explanation writing with this complete Year 5/6 Reading & Writing Bundle.

Pupils explore why day and night occur, how the Earth rotates on its axis, changing shadows, time zones and daylight around the world while developing reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and explanation writing skills.

This cross-curricular Science + English bundle combines a complete reading comprehension pack with a structured writing unit.

What’s Included Reading Pack

• 2-page non-fiction text
• Reading comprehension questions
• “Just Tick It” differentiated activity
• Extension tasks
• 40+ slide teaching presentation
• 5-day lesson plan
• Audio/read-along support
• Answer keys
• Assessment tracker

Writing Pack

• 10 sequenced explanation writing lessons
• 130+ teaching slides
• Detailed teacher lesson plans
• WAGOLL/model text
• Printable pupil worksheets
• UK and US versions
• Colour and black-and-white options
• Writing frames, sentence stems and vocabulary support
• Planning, shared writing, independent writing and editing tasks
• Grammar focus including expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and adverbials

The writing unit follows a clear Understand → Practise → Apply approach, helping pupils move from reading and analysing a model text to planning and independently writing their own explanation.

Perfect For

• Year 5 and Year 6
• Earth and Space Science
• Day and Night Topics
• Reading Comprehension
• Explanation Writing
• Non-fiction Writing
• Science and English Integration
• Guided Reading
• Intervention
• Whole-Class or Small-Group Teaching

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