Reading Comprehension Cards Sets 1-5

Engage students with fiction and non-fiction stories covering maths, science and social studies topics; they then flip over the cards for five multiple choice comprehension questions that focus on: Main idea, Making inferences, Drawing conclusions, Sequencing, Cause and effect, Context clues and Predicting outcomes.

These large, colourful, double-sided cards will encourage your pupils to get to grips with reading!

Full-colour photographs and a mix of fiction and non-fiction texts help keep them engaged while they learn! Cards cover maths, science and social studies topics and each includes multiple-choice questions to answer after reading. Each set includes 60 comprehension cards and Teacher’s Guide. Cards measure 21cm L x 14cm H each.

"Generally reading comprehension products involve photocopying the relevant extract and questions, the cards cut down on this meaning the product is easily accessible at any time e.g. if a child finishes their work early they can be given a card straight away to work through. It also enables some children to mark their own work, providing instant feedback."

See also Reading Fluency Cards.............

Focus on Comprehension
Collins Focus on Comprehension...so you can focus on teaching!

Key Features and Benefits of Focus on Comprehension:

• Compact and easy-to-use with one attractive Pupil Book and one Teacher’s Guide for each year
• The Pupil Books include a wide variety of activities that encourage children to infer, deduce, compare and justify preferences
• The Teacher’s Guide provides explanations, background notes and answers for each Pupil Book as well as photocopiable individual and class record sheets for assessment

Scholastic Comprehension Series

A complete resource to teach children key comprehension skills.

• A huge range of activities and posters in each book.
• Detailed background knowledge and teachers’ notes.
• Linked to the Renewed Literacy Framework.
• The CD-ROM contains interactive activities for your whiteboard, perfect for starter or plenary activities.
• Comprehension uses real texts to show how fiction and non-fiction can be understood.
• 5 books (years 1-2, year 3, year 4, year 5 and year 6)

Key Comprehension

Key Comprehension comprises five Pupils’ Books and five accompanying Teachers’ Handbooks, covering Years 1st-5th class+

Activities target reading texts for understanding: comprehension questions require literal, deductive, inferential and evaluative responses. Notes in the Teachers’ Handbook identify the types of understanding tested by each question.
Questions ask for answers written in complete sentences to encourage development of appropriate Standard English writing in a formal context.

Focus on Comprehension (Nelson Thornes)

Focus on Comprehension offers three levels of differentiated activities designed to help children develop a wide range of comprehension skills. It is designed to teach a wide range of comprehension skills and strageies

Six pupil books covering Senior Infants to fifth class offer differentiated activities, set in the context of enjoyable and stimulating fiction and non-fiction extracts.

There are 3 teachers books to accompany the series.

Comprehension Success

Success in comprehension across a range of genres

Comprehension Success is a dynamic comprehension scheme which meets the requirements of the National Curriculum and National Literacy Strategy.

• full range of genres
  
• authentic texts
  
• appropriate level for each year group
  
• graduated questions to allow for differentiation within the class
  

Teachers Books Provide:

• Answers to all the questions
  
• Photocopiable sheets for Tests practice
  
• Further background and sources to the texts

Reading Comprehension

Books 1-4

A lively new series that puts a collection of stimulating and entertaining reading comprehension exercises at your fingertips. Supporting the NLS Framework at Key Stage 2, the exercises in each Reading Comprehension book are grouped and graded within four main skill areas: getting the main idea, making inferences, noting and recalling details, and using context clues. The passages are all illustrated and encompass a wide range of genres including poetry, letters, recipes and newspaper reports. Multiple-choice questions are followed by open-ended activities requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. Each book contains 64 photocopiable A4 pages and teacher’s notes. A press report of UFO sightings, a letter from a dissatisfied customer and an ape love story – just a few of the lively and varied texts in this book of comprehension exercises. Ideal for children in Second class or for older children with special needs.

Stile Understanding & Interpreting Text
( Formerly Stile Comprehension)

AGE RANGE: 7-11, plus older special need

Children love the Stile way of working. It’s fun, it’s highly motivating and it has a unique self-checking system! Using the tried-and-tested Stile Tray, our Stile Extra series offers literacy materials for less able readers from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3. There are 3 sets of books in the Stile Literacy Programme. Phonics & Spelling works at the word level of the NLS, Grammar & Punctuation at the sentence level and Comprehension at the text level. Now that the ‘Year’ labels have been removed they are totally appropriate to use with older special needs pupils. A collection of 96 funny, factual and fictional exercises. Concentrating on the text level requirements of the NLS Framework, these passages and questions will reinforce and develop the comprehension skills of the less able reader. Children can access text in a meaningful and appropriate way, developing both their independence and their confidence. Contains 12 books (246 x 168mm) and teacher’s notes. Stile Trays sold separately. Please note that the content of these books is the same as in our Stile Literacy Programme.

Stile Understanding & Interpreting Text Foundations)
(Stile Comprehension - Foundations)

These Foundation programmes have been designed to support children who struggle with key reading comprehension, phonics and spelling skills. Using the tried-and-tested Stile Tray, children can work on rewarding and meaningful activities without becoming bored or discouraged. The books are packed full of exercises that will provide children with a new and exciting way to develop essential skills. These 6 Foundation books will help to ensure that children entering Year 3 have a good understanding to texts on which to build their future development. They will also be beneficial for those children who need more practice in the comprehension skills introduced at Key Stage 1 and will provide extra support throughout Key Stage 2 for those children with special needs. The 48 self-checking activities in these books offer revision of the main Key Stage 1 text level requirements of the NLS. All books are full colour with attractive and helpful illustrations that will bring the passages alive. Contains 6 x 16-page books (246 x 168mm) and teacher’s notes.

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