Who Are the Totally Pawsome Reading Gang?
The Totally Pawsome Reading Gang are dog characters featured in a specialist collection of resources aimed at developing essential reading skills.
Please note, These resources have been created by experienced educators for the English national curriculum but can be used to support and develop students in any setting to improve their reading and comprehension abilities.
Each dog character is a visual representation of a reading skill.
These are the reading skills and their associated Totally Pawsome character for ages 5 to 7 :
These are the reading skills and their associated Totally Pawsome character for ages 7 to 11 :
The Totally Pawsome Reading Gang now feature in hundreds of Twinkl resources designed to teach and practise individual reading comprehension skills, which includes:
- our 60-Second Reads, quick bursts of fluency practice with related comprehension questions;
- Focused Reading Skills Packs, which practise each skill in isolation;
- and Guided Reading materials to help with questioning, forming sentence stems and assessing reading progress.
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