Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys & girls together with questions that both build & stretch comprehension skills & widen vocabulary. Comprising four one-per-child activity books & providing more than 72 texts in total the series encourages children to pay close attention to literal meaning make inferences & deductions observe how writing is structured & identify literary devices. A separate Teacher's Guide is also available. Book 4 reflects the broadening interests & word power of young people who will soon move to secondary school or have now done so. It
Includes:: non-fiction texts covering the discovery in Russia of a long-extinct mammoth shells & their origins & the life of explorer Robert Scott the poignant 'last letter' from Scott to his widow classic poetry from Rudyard Kipling Edward Thomas Edward Lear & William Wordsworth a short extract from the play ' Hamlet' by William Shakespeare riveting fiction from R.L. Stevenson Thomas Hardy Daniel Defoe & Charles Dickens & absorbing autobiographies & biographical fiction from Roald Dahl & Alison Prince.