Teaching pack: Comprehension at lower KS2

Help children to develop their understanding and enjoyment of stories and non-fiction with our Comprehension pack for lower KS2.

Featuring six texts alongside engaging comprehension tasks, questions and answers, this pack will encourage your children to retrieve information, draw inferences, make predictions, identify and summarise ideas and analyse language and structure.

All you need to address these key skills!

What’s included?

• six original texts and 17 supporting resources, including comprehensions and answer sheets
• includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What’s inside?

Introduction (pages 3-6)

Unit 1 – The Little Prince (pages 7-16)
Resource - unlocking words

Unit 2 – The Velveteen Rabbit (pages 17=25)
Resource - old-fashioned to modern day
Resource - what’s in the bag?

Unit 3 – The Little Mermaid (pages 26-36)
Resource - underwater similes
Resource - through the eyes of a mermaid

Unit 4 – Robin Hood (pages 37-48)
Resource - retelling Robin Hood
Resource - Robin Hood’s arrows

Unit 5 – Four square (pages 49-56)
Resource - instruction text detectives

Unit 6 – A letter (pages 57-64)
Resource - a letter in reply
Resource - letter-writing ideas