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 1 is ideal for children who are new to written comprehension &
Includes:: simple contemporary texts with which they will readily identify gripping tales that span the centuries from Aesop to Charles Kingsley & E. Nesbit to Dick King Smith informative non-fiction reports covering diverse topics (for example the Viking history of York & the functions of different types of teeth) a playscript based on The Wizard of Oz & memorable poems (some of them funny) from well-loved writers such as Hilaire Belloc Dylan Thomas & Wendy Cope.
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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 2 is for children whose reading skills are fluent & accurate &
Includes:: excellent examples of broadsheet journalism (such as a description of the celebrations following England's victory in the 1966 World Cup) an instructional text ' How to make a wormery' that children will love enthralling extracts from classic fiction -' The Adventures of Robin Hood' ' Treasure Island' & ' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' plus stories based on the ' Canterbury Tales' & Arthurian legend an intriguing playscript adapted from the Sherlock Holmes detective story & thought-provoking poetry from Charles Causley Walter de la Mare Valerie Bloom & Edward Thomas.
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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 3 encourages children to move beyond simple understanding & recall to look for more complex meanings. It
Includes:: adventure stories from Roald Dahl Mark Twain Anthony Buckeridge & Kenneth Grahame an inspiring biography of Falklands soldier Simon Weston further non-fiction from Jacqueline Wilson & Emmeline Pankhurst evocative poems from some of the best British poets (such as Lewis Carroll Robert Browning & R.L. Stevenson) an appealing letter written by Stevenson as a teenager & an introduction to the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien & William Shakespeare.
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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.
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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. Each text has been allocated a National Curriculum 'level' which appears in the Teaching notes & Cross-curricular content charts & means that you can model the comprehension process through guided reading. This Teacher's Guide provides you with all you need to use Key Stage 2 Comprehension to its full potential including: full teaching notes for every text including an introduction & answers further activities which may be adapted for individual or group work at least one speaking & listening activity for each text cross-curricular contents charts which also indicate the level of each text a photocopiable group record sheet for each activity book & a handy summary of the comprehension objectives listed in the Primary Framework. ...

This book has all the handwriting practice that pupils aged 7-11 will need to get to Level 3 in Handwriting for KS2 English. It contains lots of exercises to practise joined up writing with every letter in the alphabet & a space for setting individual targets. It's ideal for checking progress & preparing for the KS2 end-of-year tests. ...

This book has all the handwriting practice that pupils aged 7-11 will need to get to Level 4 in Handwriting for KS2 English & follows on from CGP's Level 3 Handwriting book (9781841461977). It contains lots of exercises to practise joined up writing with every letter in the alphabet & a space for setting individual targets. It's ideal for checking progress & preparing for the KS2 end-of-year tests. ...

This book has all the handwriting practice that pupils aged 7-11 will need to get to Level 5 in Handwriting for KS2 English & follows on from CGP's Level 4 Handwriting book (9781841461960). It contains lots of exercises to practise joined up writing with every letter in the alphabet & a space for setting individual targets. It's ideal for checking progress & preparing for the KS2 end-of-year tests. ...

This colourful book is full of all the technical terms used in the Literacy Hour for pupils in years 3 & 4. It explains each term in clear simple language to help children understand them & learn how to use them correctly in their written work with lots of pictures & humour thrown in to make it enjoyable to read. ...

This colourful book is full of all the technical terms used in the Literacy Hour for pupils in years 5 & 6. It explains each term in clear simple language to help children understand them & learn how to use them correctly in their written work with lots of pictures & humour thrown in to make it enjoyable to read. ...