Teaching pack: Comprehension at upper KS2

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