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. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources: Year 9 Comprehension - A Gun For Hire Year 9 Comprehension - Frankenstein Year 9 Comprehension - Jamaica Inn

Synonyms and Antonyms - Year 5 and 6 This English grammar teaching resource focuses on recognising and using synonyms and antonyms in our writing as per the curriculum objective in the Years 5 and 6 English programme of study (Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation). Content includes: An animated PowerPoint presentation Activities to support the teaching of this objective with 2 accompanying worksheets 3 differentiated worksheets with answers ‘Synonyms and Antonyms - Year 5 and 6’ is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt the resource, if needed, to suit all their teaching requirements.