Remembrance Day Year 1 | VIPERS Reading Comprehension PowerPoint

Introduce Remembrance Day through a colourful, illustrated 12-slide PowerPoint designed for Year 1. A short information text explains the significance of 11th November, the two-minute silence and red poppies in accessible language.

The lesson includes:

• All six VIPERS skills: Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise.
• Focused questions with text clues and sentence starters.
• Partner talk and opportunities for pupils to explain their thinking.
• A pupil-generated question activity and final recap.

Ideal for shared reading and whole-class discussion, with visual and language support to help younger readers participate confidently.

Ready to teach with no preparation or marking required. Editable PowerPoint text lets you adapt the lesson for your class, then reuse it year after year.

Format: 12-slide widescreen PowerPoint. Illustrations are fixed images.