The two Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Year 2 books help pupils develop the skills needed to read and comprehend non-fiction, fiction and poetry in Key Stage 1 and ensure a successful transition to Year 3 using high-quality authentic non-fiction texts, and poems and extracts from children’s stories.
Each of the texts is accompanied by carefully chosen questions to help pupils develop an understanding of all the Key Stage 1 question types: retrieval, inference, vocabulary, sequencing and prediction.
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The Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series of books, for Years 3–4 and Years 5–6, contains high quality authentic fiction extracts or non-fiction passages. The worksheets link to the Reading Content Domain question types and are perfect preparation for developing reading strategies as children move through Key Stage 2. The resources will also introduce children to the skills needed for the KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension papers.
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- Read this descriptive extract, with a hint of magic, from ‘October, October’ by Katya Balen
- Use these questions to explore the vocabulary used on ‘October, October’
- Turn detective and look for clues in the text to support your answers to these inference questions
- Answer these questions on the author’s use of language to develop your skills in recognising figurative language and descriptive phrases
