Escape from Pompeii

Escape from Pompeii by Christine Balit

Escape from Pompeii is a popular choice for LKS2 teachers.

Download our reading resources to support your planning this term and help reduce your workload.

Main Focus: History of Pompeii

This is a comprehension resource to introduce your class to the history of Pompeii.

We have included a multiple choice comprehension to go along with this non fiction resource.

Main Focus: Commas or Full Stops?

This activity focuses on commas for fronted adverbials, commas for lists, commas before speech and more.

Main Focus: Apostrophes

Your children will complete this activity and focus on apostrophes for contractions and to show possession.

Main Focus: Vocabulary Extension

This resource pack that helps your children delve a little deeper into the vocabulary used within the story Escape from Pompeii.

Main Focus: Past and Present Tense

In this non-fiction resource, your class will learn some key facts and information about Pompeii as well as focusing in on past and present tense.

You can look at the terms used in the text such as: erupted, abandoned, rediscovered, astonished, educated, dense, submerged, looms, enveloped, debris and artefacts.

Main Focus: Non-Fiction

This resource focuses on volcanoes, key features and key vocabulary and terms associated.

Main Focus: Comprehension

This is a comprehension activity that explores the final page of the book ‘The Story of Pompeii’.

Main Focus: Inverted Commas

This is a great resource to help your children identify and add in the inverted commas for dialogue use between Tranio and Livia.

Main Focus: Character Study and Inference

This is a character study of Tranio and is linked to inference in a number of ways.

We have also included a multiple choice resource to accompany this task.

Main Focus: A Day in Pompeii - Picture Resources

This is a resource that shows the events that unfolded that fateful day Vesuvius erupted.

Your children can:

Describe the events as they unfold.

Create captions for a newspaper report.

Create dialogue of eye witnesses as the events unfold.

Create a narrative.

Use as a word mat to help during writing.

and anything else you can think of.

A Day in Pompeii - Animation

This resource is an animation of the events unfolding on 24 August 79 AD in Pompeii.

Allow the children to watch once through and then during the second time, allow them to create descriptions, dialogue between the people etc.

Vesuvius and Pompeii - The Story

This is an educational resource to accompany the story ‘Escape from Pompeii’ that brings to life the events on 79 A.D once Mount Vesuvius erupted.

The story gives children an insight to the scale of the devastation caused by the eruption.