Key Stage Two : English : Reading : Comprehension : Pandora’s Box


This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth from Ancient Greece. The class can write their own version of a myth to explain what happened when they were given a gift that was not what it really seemed.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth

This teaching pack includes reading comprehension materials to teach the class to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth. There are activities for shared, independent and group learning.

Learning Objectives

Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of myths. Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify how myths are written and structured differently from other types of texts. I can use parts of a text to support viewpoints about the actions of the characters.

Pandora’s Box

Shared reading text to help the children answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth from Ancient Greece

Pandora’s Box Questions

Activity to help the children answer a range of comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth from Ancient Greece

Pandora’s Box Questions (support)

Activity to help the children answer a range of comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth from Ancient Greece

Pandora’s Box

Interactive activity to help the children read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth from Ancient Greece

Download this teaching pack including an assembly plan, teaching activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a myth

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