Comprehension (upper KS2)

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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All you need to develop children's reading comprehension skills and prepare them for their KS2 reading assessments.

Inspire a positive attitude to reading and consolidate those all-important comprehension skills ready for KS2 English SATs.

Featuring six fiction and non-fiction texts alongside engaging lesson plans,  reading comprehension activities and worksheets, this pack will encourage your children to build the comprehension strategies of information retrieval, drawing inferences, making predictions, identifying and summarising ideas and analysing language and structure.

What's more, this pack is editable, meaning you can tweak questions to suit your UKS2 learners.

What's included?

  • six original texts and 21 supporting teaching resources, including comprehension questions and answer sheets
  • includes lesson plans, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
  • links to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for English.

What's inside?

Introduction (pages3-6)

Unit 1 – Five Children and It (pages 7-20)

  • Resource - picturing the Psammead
  • Resource - that’s Greek to me

Unit 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (pages 21-33)

  • Resource - pass the parcel words
  • Resource - he said, she said
  • Resource - Seen the movie? Now read the book!

Unit 3 – Alice in Wonderland (pages 34-47)

  • Resource - illustration by Sir John Tenniel
  • Resource - Alice grows
  • Resource - comprehension chatterbox

Unit 4 – Odin's Reward (pages 48-59)

  • Resource - pairs game
  • Resource - comic strip format

Unit 5 – Samuel Johnson biography (pages 60-70)

  • Resource - Dr Johnson’s wonderful words!
  • Resource - my biography notes

Unit 6 – Newspaper report (pages 71-78)

  • Resource - fact or opinion?
  • Resource - complete the headline

This sample activity is taken from a section in the pack about Five Children and It by E. Nesbit.

  1. Read through the extract, underlining all the words and phrases that describe the Psammead’s appearance.
  1. Copy the words and phrases you have found about each of the Psammead’s body parts into the table below. For example, put all of the words and phrases describing the Psammead’s eyes into one box.
  1. Use the descriptions you have found to help you make sketches of the Psammead’s body parts.
  1. Put the sketches together to create your own full portrait of the Psammead!

 

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Thank you Teachit! really useful and a great help especially during this difficult time!

Sharan Sehmi

21/05/2020

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Home schooling.

Yvonne Khan

07/05/2020

Thank you! I really appreciate access to your resources during this time. A great help!

Anna Duke

30/04/2020

Great resource to use with SEN KS3 Pupils to help them develop their basic skills.

Jo Snowden

29/04/2020

Thank you Teachit! really useful and a great help especially during this difficult time!

Sharan Sehmi

21/05/2020

5
Home schooling.

Yvonne Khan

07/05/2020

Thank you! I really appreciate access to your resources during this time. A great help!

Anna Duke

30/04/2020

Great resource to use with SEN KS3 Pupils to help them develop their basic skills.

Jo Snowden

29/04/2020

Thank you, great resource. This was just what I was looking for.

Katie Cooper

27/04/2020

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