FREE! - Mr Stink: 60-Second Reads Activity Pack [Ages 7-9]

How can I use this Mr Stink Reading Comprehension?

Our teacher-made Mr Stink Reading Comprehension, created in partnership with Harper Collins, is the perfect way to develop children’s reading comprehension skills. Based on the popular children’s book ‘Mr Stink’ by David Walliams, this comprehension pack includes five different texts for children to explore. 

Our engaging Mr Stink Reading Comprehension covers a range of genres and each short extract includes four questions and answers for children to complete. The pack comes with a handy teacher guide along with the following texts:

• A Recipe for a Tramp (instructional text)
• Feeding Mr Stink (fiction – extract from the text)
• Tramp Turns up in Town (newspaper report)
• Who’s in the Photo? (fiction – extract from the text)
• What Is Homelessness? (explanation text)

Each 60-Second Read Activity features a short extract of age-appropriate text with a word count of between 90 and 120 words. It also includes a set of comprehension questions to assess learners’ depth of understanding of what has been read. It’s perfect for assessment purposes and tracking children’s reading speed and fluency. Simply download in just a click to get started!

All About the Author: David Walliams

Mr Stink was written by author David Walliams. Here are five facts to learn more about Walliams:

1. As well as being an author, David Walliams is also a comedian and actor.
2. David wanted to write a book about how it’s OK to be different. So, in 2008, he published ‘The Boy in the Dress’.
3. He has sold over eight million books all over the world.
4. David actually changed his name from Williams to Walliams because there was already a famous actor called David Williams!
5. David has raised a lot of money for charity. In 2011, he swam the length of the River Thames (140 miles) and raised more than two million pounds for Sport Relief.