KS1 English Year 2 Reading Comprehension Targeted Question Book - Book 1 (with Answers) (CGP Year 2 English)

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Not every teacher’s encounters with drama are positive. We have all experienced that stomach-lurching moment when, during a training session, an overzealous course leader asks you to try ‘a bit of role play’. If you and your students have enjoyed using the beach themed differentiated reading activity then you may also like to see these for your KS1 class: Improve pupils’ ability to make high-level inferences and links between texts, and extend their vocabulary with focused lessons. The Year 2 reading SATs test children's knowledge of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Students will answer questions to show their understanding of the texts.

In Paper 1, children are given a booklet that contains a selection of short texts to read and questions to answer at various points within each text. The test lasts approximately 30 minutes. From an early age, children explore worlds, real and imagined, through the act of role play. In Early Years they are provided with a range of opportunities to engage in imaginative play such as role-play areas, puppets and props, and through the act of small world play. Giving time over to drama lessons may feel like a risk, but it’s certain to deepen children’s understanding of fictional narratives, says former primary headteacher Ruth Baker-Leask… I began by making the sentences more interactive. I gave children a collection of pictures and a selection of sentences, each of which matched one of the images.

The following table shows the ATOS score and the percentage of children who should be able to read the text in each year group. For example, if a text in Y3 has a score of 3.62 - 4.2, it should be independently accessible to children between the 50 and 25 percentile. If a text has a score of 4.5 in a year 4 text, it should be independently accessed by the top 10% of children in the class.

These are only three of our KS1 60 Second Reads (12 different texts). There are loads more you can use, so why not browse our collection now? Benefits of our KS1 60 Second Reads Collection: Pupils will need to scan the book’s illustrations for clues, making it an ideal title for comprehension work. Children will need to explain what they can observe, what they know and what they can infer from that. As you can see, drama and role play can support teachers to deepen children’s understanding of text in varied and engaging ways. This means you can avoid the temptation to only teach reading comprehension through the model of teacher questioning. Comprehension has an essential place in your phonics lessons, says literacy consultant Jacqueline Harris, and your favourite picturebooks are an ideal jumping off point…

How do these reading comprehension KS1 primary resources support learning?

Or, you can use this as homework via our Planner Tool. Simply drag all the resources you'd like to add and give your children access. They don't even need their own Twinkl account! I wrote my own version, making sure I used only decodable words with graphemes the children already knew. ‘On a dark, dark night in a dark, dark wood was a dark, dark oak. In the dark, dark oak was a …’.

There are a limited number of words for the /z/ /zz/ phoneme (Phase 3), but there is a wonderful, memorable book to support this. In my cautious early days of teaching phonics, I used the sentences in Letters and Sounds – that is until the day Thomas piped up with, “But why are we reading such silly things?”. This was when he was being asked to read, ‘Are fingers as long as arms?’. If you're looking for a few recommendations on which resource to start with, take a look at the next section. Recommended KS1 60 Second Reads:

There would, however, always be one picture without a matching sentence. The children had to read and understand all the sentences to discover which one. This set of six worksheets from Jelly & Bean lets children practise skills like letter formation (both with and without guides), handwriting, comprehension and there are pictures to colour in on each. Then, having read aloud the original book, we enjoyed talking about what the surprise ending might be in the version I had written. Rewriting in decodable chunks Town councillor making an announcement about events that have affected the hometown of the character A handy resource to use as an independent or group reading activity or a perfect accompaniment to a summer topic or topic about beaches.