For general comprehension activities for a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, simply pick from the skills and filter by key stage 1 or key stage 2 to see relevant teaching resources for your year group. You can effectively track pupils' progress against the National Curriculum aims with this handy Y5/Y6 Reading Objectives Colouring Sheet. If you spot any gaps in your pupils' learning, you can use this collection of Focused Reading Skills Reading Comprehension Resources to support them and bring them up to speed.

Year 5 Mayan Comprehension text in the form of a traditional Mayan creation story, which tells how the gods created Earth and the human race. In this comprehensive collection, you can find lots of reading comprehension activities on a range of current topics. There is a potential argument here for a sole focus on teaching comprehension strategies and never asking children to spend time practising giving written answers to comprehension questions. Please refer to this Agreement before adding more titles to your CGP Online Editions account (Your Account).Writing answers to text questions makes them more memorable, as writing an answer provides a second form of rehearsal. Writing-about-text activities had a positive impact on struggling students’ understanding of a text. To really make the most out of your lessons, take a look at our many KS2 reading exercises that can be completed monthly throughout each term, such as our Monthly Comprehension Packs. Here are some ideas to help you not just confirm that your pupils can read to the required standard, but also enjoy themselves along the way. Where technical language is prevalent the score increases, we, however, have used our own professional judgement to include them in the correct stage.

That’s why we’ve hand-picked some comprehension resources, designed to help pupils extract and analyse the right pieces of information with ease. This will help your class to prepare for the KS2 SATs at the end of year 6, where the reading paper will also focus on them. Year 6 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class text in the form of a narrative from the viewpoint of a pupil and a teacher starting a new school year. This fantastic money-saving bundle contains both of our Year 3 Reading Comprehension Targeted Question Books ( Book 1 and Book 2).Much as it might go against your instincts, don’t be afraid to go with the grain, especially in your choice of questioning. Without having any evidence back this up with, I believe that there are children who, having been taught strategies which have become skills, are able to complete the reading test, confidently giving written answers to the questions it asks. With so many topics available to choose from, you can make sure to find the reading comprehension questions and answers (PDF) that will engage your pupils best. Use these free resources to prepare children for KS1 SATs or try our resource packs for KS2 SATs reading practice.

That is because there are always words and phrases that are still useful to understand but may well have faded in popularity in recent years.Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of differentiated and stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys and girls, together with questions that both build and stretch comprehension skills and widen vocabulary.

That means that you can be sure you’ll be assessing at an appropriate level and in the correct proportion when it comes to question types.Complete Comprehension is the essential companion for teaching reading comprehension in your school. The three interventions were carried out with children who had been identified as having the poor comprehender profile - the three interventions were intended to help children who struggled with reading comprehension to overcome their problems. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or our liability to you in the event of death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees agents or sub-contractors. Creative activities and games focus on using and applying knowledge to secure pupils’ understanding.