There are now four books available in the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series:
Classic Children’s Literature for Years 5-6
Classic Children’s Literature for Years 3-4
Developing Reading Comprehension Skills is a series of eight reading comprehension books for children, focusing on high-quality literature and the full range of question types in the National Curriculum for English and assessed in the KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension papers. This series gives children opportunities to tackle more complex vocabulary, explore how authors use language to impact their readers and develop endurance for longer passages.
The new books for Years 3-4 provide scaffolding to support children as they begin more formal, written comprehension, encouraging them to look for evidence to support their ideas.
To support the adults using the books, each begins with guidance and strategies for teaching the eight 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 more experienced teachers looking to expand the range of texts they use. These books are incredibly useful in the classroom, for home learning and for long-term home education. Although aimed at Key Stage Two, they would also be appropriate in Key Stage Three for supporting children who have not yet reached the expected Year 6 standard.
Purchase Links – All 4 books are available from Brilliant Publications & Amazon:
Brilliant Publications website (print & e-books)
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 3-4
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 5-6
Amazon UK (print books)
Click on the book covers to find out more and purchase on-line from Amazon:
Amazon Canada (print books)
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 5-6
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 3-4
Amazon US (print books)
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 5-6
Classic Children’s Literature: Years 3-4
Upcoming titles:
Contemporary Fiction: Years 5-6
Contemporary Fiction: Years 3-4
Non-fiction: Years 5-6
Non-fiction: Years 3-4
| Content Domain Question Types |
| • Vocabulary • Retrieval • Inference • Summary • Prediction • Text Meaning • Author’s Use of Language • Compare & Contrast |
| Classic Children’s Literature: Years 3-4 Extracts |
| • The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll • The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder • The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams • The Magic Bedknob by Mary Norton • The Railway Children by E. Nesbit • Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie • The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King by E.T.A. Hoffmann • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame • The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain |
| Classic Poetry: Years 3-4 Poems |
| • Boats Sail on the Rivers by Christina Rossetti • My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson • Buckingham Palace by A.A. Milne • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear • A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore • The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson • The Bronze Legacy by Effie Lee Newsome • Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field • A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson • The Cloud-Mobile by May Swenson • The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay • Night by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Classic Children’s Literature: Years 5-6 Extracts |
| • 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 |
| Classic Poetry: Years 5-6 Poems |
| • Night Clouds by Amy Lowell • An Autumn Evening by Lucy Maud Montgomery • In Flanders Fields by John McCrae • Leisure by W.H. Davies • In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti • The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling • “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson • The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes • The Listeners by Walter de la Mare • North of Time by Rachel Field • The Tyger by William Blake • A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Reviews for Developing Reading Comprehension Skills:
Scope for Imagination 