Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Children's Literature contains 12 high quality extracts from classic children's stories and is perfect preparation for KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension Papers.

Each of the extracts is accompanied by eight sets of questions based on the Key Stage 2 (KS2) Reading Content Domains and National Curriculum. This book provides opportunities to tackle more complex vocabulary, explore how authors use language to impact their readers and develop endurance for longer passages. The clear structure and the author's passion for literature make Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Children's Literature invaluable for everyone working with pupils in Years 5 and 6.

Support for teachers and parents is built in with guidance for how to teach the different question types, plus suggestions for embedding these texts in the wider English curriculum. This series 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're looking for a comprehensive resource to enhance reading provision and teaching in your classroom or to support home education, this is exactly what you need. Look for other books in the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series, including Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Poetry.

¿This book contains extracts from the following classic novels:Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens