This invaluable collection of photocopiable reading comprehension activities offers a rich variety of subjects and text types to engage and stimulate all your pupils, including fiction, poetry, dialogue, letters, recipes, charts and tables, and news reports. Aimed at pupils aged 8 and over, the activities in each book are grouped and graded within four main skill areas:
- Getting the main idea
- Making inferences
- Noting details
- Using context clues
Each lively and entertaining text is accompanied by a set of multiple choice questions designed for practice and reinforcement of the main skill, as well as an open-ended activity requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. With teacher’s notes and separate answer pages for easy checking, this series provides a great way to develop and hone crucial literacy skills.
Texts featured in this book include:
- A subverted fairy tale
- A jam tart recipe
- A press report on a sea rescue
Age suitability: 7-8 years and older children with additional learning needs