Comprehension for Independent Readers – Literal, Inferential, Evaluative – Ages 10+

Comprehension for independent readers is a series of two books for ages 8-9 and 10 plus. The books are divided into a number of sections each focusing on a different text type or part of speech.

Text types:

• Sales catalogue
• Comic book
• Information in graphs
• Poster
• Biography
• Diagram
• Diary entry
• Time line
• Poetry
• Play script
• Flow chart
• Narrative
• Parts of speech
• Information in tables
• Proverb
• Colloquialism
• Irony
• Sarcasm
• Symbolism
• Metaphor
• Syllogism
• Front page of newspaper

Features include:

• stimulus texts of a particular genre or part of speech to inform students about the theme and to promote discussion
• comprehension activities with a number of literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension questions for students to demonstrate what they have learned. The format of questions ranges from multiple choice and matching to those requiring a full written explanation.
• suggestions for developing students’ understanding, and the theme of the text
• answers to all comprehension questions
• links to the English curriculum