This pack contains a selection of resources teachers can use to help pupils develop their ability to explain impressions and make inferences about story settings.

It includes story extracts featuring descriptions of settings and follow-up activities. This a flexible resource which contains materials needed for teachers to organise 5 or more reading sessions. Teachers can pick and choose the resources they would like to use. The resources are suitable for use in 1:1, group or whole class reading sessions.

This resource includes:

• Descriptions of settings adapted from nine classic books and fairy tales: Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Heidi, The Fisherman and his Wife, The Little Mermaid, Anne of the Green Gables, The Wizard of Oz, Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, and The Water Babies.
• Good or Bad Setting Worksheets
• Setting Impressions Word Choice Worksheets
• Zone of Relevance Activity Pack
• Visualising Settings Worksheets
• 3 Mark Questions Templates
• Sentence Stems PPT
• Settings Word Check List
• Teacher Guidance