Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Year 2: Fiction and Poetry

Help pupils develop the skills needed to read and comprehend fiction and poetry in Key Stage 1 as well as ensuring a successful transition to Year 3, using these poems and extracts from children's stories.

The book provides a gentle introduction to more formal comprehension while introducing children to 20 engaging fiction texts and poems which will encourage a love of reading. For each poem and extract, thought-provoking questions help pupils gain an understanding of all the Key Stage 1 question types: retrieval, inference, vocabulary, sequencing and prediction.

  The Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series makes it easy to have a consistent whole school approach from Year 2 all the way through to the Key Stage 2 SATs. It is suitable for new and recently qualified teachers as well as those who are more experienced and wanting to expand the range of texts they use. If you are looking for a comprehensive resource to enhance reading provision and teaching in the classroom or to support home education, this series is exactly what you need.