Year 8 Comprehension - Walking Away

Developing Comprehension Skills - Year 8

This two-lesson mini-unit is designed to help Year 8 learners develop their comprehension skills and begin to build towards GCSE. It is made up of a 50-slide PowerPoint presentation, worksheets and a comprehension assessment.

Contents:

Lesson One

• An introduction to comprehension.

• How to approach a comprehension task.

• Understanding inference and deduction skills.

• How to write an extended answer about language.

Lesson Two

• How to refer to the text and use quotations.

• A 40-minute comprehension task (available in PDF printable format).

• Post assessment discussion of example responses to all comprehension questions.

Developing Comprehension Skills - Year 8 will help you develop essential comprehension skills in Year 8 students. Click on the images to preview the resource.

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