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 is full of test-style questions of fiction writing for pupils aged 7-11. It contains lots of fun exercises to practise the different types of writing & a space for setting individual targets. It's ideal for checking progress & test preparation. ...

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. ...

This bright colourful book is full of practice questions for 7-8 year old students studying KS2 English. It covers all of the word & sentence level topics in the National Literacy Strategy for year 3. The questions are written in a clear straightforward style to test what they know & how well they can apply their knowledge. The answers are in the back of the book so you can easily check their work find out where they might be going wrong & improve their answers. ...