KS1 English Year 2 Reading Comprehension Targeted Question Book - Book 1 (with Answers) (CGP Year 2 English)

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Real Comprehension is a unique, whole-school reading comprehension programme from Plazoom. It’s designed to develop sophisticated skills of inference and retrieval and help children build rich vocabularies. It also encourages the identification of themes and comparison between texts. I wrote my own version, making sure I used only decodable words with graphemes the children already knew. ‘On a dark, dark night in a dark, dark wood was a dark, dark oak. In the dark, dark oak was a …’. As you can see, drama and role play can support teachers to deepen children’s understanding of text in varied and engaging ways. This means you can avoid the temptation to only teach reading comprehension through the model of teacher questioning.

Role play becomes more structured for older children but still provides the same benefits. It strengthens their comprehension skills by supporting them to make connections between a fictional world and their own lives. Some children often say that they don’t enjoy reading, or enjoy completing reading comprehension activities, but we’ve thought of that! We’ve designed our reading comprehensions specifically for reluctant readers and have included some slightly off the wall topics including an axolotl reading comprehension and a unicorn reading comprehension that are specifically designed to appeal to children. Some of our reading comprehension activities have actually been co-authored by our own children – who know a lot more about computer games than we do! Reading comprehensions linked to topics In some texts, particularly in Stages 5 and 6, some of the scores are slightly lower due to some of the content being written for effect. For example, short sentences to add dramatic effect or tension lower the score - but are important technical aspects to be experienced by readers.All of these reading comprehension activities are linked to events that happen in May, such as The Coronation of King Charles III, VE Day, Florence Nightingale's Birthday and World Bee Day. The stages are based on a measure of readability called an ATOS score. It is a formula designed to guide students and teachers to appropriate-level texts. It is based on a number of predictors - average sentence length, average word length and word difficulty level. Improve pupils’ ability to make high-level inferences and links between texts, and extend their vocabulary with focused lessons.

Reading comprehension resources for KS1 & 2 can be used in a range of ways. As part of your English lessons, or perhaps during guided reading sessions. They are brilliant preparation for both KS1 and KS2 SATs and provide children with experience, breadth and practise when it comes to reading. Our range of topics include:

Writing in role is a worthwhile extension to most drama activities. It offers children a further opportunity to express a character’s thoughts and feelings and allows them to reflect on the text as a whole. Boost inference and comprehension with Mini Grey’s mouse detective in this free KS1 book topic from Judy Clark, based on the book Hermelin: The Great Mouse Detective.