Key Stage 2 oracy resources from Scholastic

Good oracy skills can transform a child’s learning outcomes and life prospects.


Journey to the River Sea

Read & Respond

Transform your literacy outcomes and engage your whole school in reading. Inspire and delight children with contemporary, diverse and engaging texts that will spark a lifelong love of reading for pleasure.

  • Build a whole-school literacy programme based on the best children’s books.
  • Foster reading for pleasure with stories from acclaimed and award-winning authors.
  • Prepare with confidence with essential teacher’s books and supportive resources.
  • Save hours of preparation time with ready-to-use print and digital resources.
  • Boost guided reading in every year group with detailed teachers notes.
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Short Reads - Non-fiction - Box 5

Short Reads

Develop comprehension skills with challenging close reading on exciting fiction and non-fiction topics. Graded by Lexile Level, each Short Reads box contains six sets of 40 themed group reading cards to share with your pupils.

  • Challenging fiction and non-fiction topics for children to explore and explain.
  • Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics.
  • Build writing skills with ‘Write about Reading’ tasks.
  • Ideal for group reading sessions and independent reading.
  • Develop close reading skills with finely-levelled texts matched to children’s reading levels.
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