Year 3 Reading Comprehension Workbook | 20 Lessons | Literal, Inferential & Critical Skills

The Reading Eggspress Comprehension programme shows pupils how to understand the literal meaning of a
text, including its vocabulary, and its inferred meaning. This workbook has 20 step-by-step lessons that teach
key strategies for children to use when they read. Each lesson uses a levelled extract and focuses on a single
comprehension strategy. They support teaching of the following statutory requirements of the National Curriculum
in England:
Reading – Comprehension
Pupils should be taught to:
• develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by:

• listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
• reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
• increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling
  some of these orally
• identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
• discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
• recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]
  • understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:
• checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of
  words in context
• asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying
  inferences with evidence
• predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
• identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these
• identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
• retrieve and record information from non-fiction