Primary Comprehension

Primary Comprehension is a series of seven books designed to develop pupils’ comprehension of text, both fiction and non-fiction, throughout the whole school.

Features:

Twenty different texts from a variety of genre are used including legends, fables, science fiction, adventure, poetry, biographies, journals and reports.
Each unit is covered over four pages:
- teachers page (which details genre type, the comprehension strategy developed, answers and extension work) – either fiction or non-fiction
- questions to assess pupil comprehension using three levels of questions - literal, deductive and evaluative
- activities to practise and investigate a specific comprehension strategy.
Nine specific strategies are covered in each book: predicting, making connections, comparing, sensory imaging, determining importance, skimming, scanning, synthesising, and summarising.
Detailed teacher notes include curriculum links, genre definition, information on question types, comprehension strategies and shared and guided reading.