Comprehension Age 5-7

by Helena Rigby

SCHOLASTIC LITERACY SKILLS provides context-based tasks to help children to practise and improve their spelling, comprehension, grammar and punctuation skills. COMPREHENSION AGES 5-7 is a bumper book of photocopiable comprehension tasks for children aged 5-7. Divided into three sections: for ages 4-5, 5-6 and 6-7, the book contains 80 units of texts plus questions. The texts cover the genre range that children in these age groups are expected to encounter and include poetry, stories, playscripts plus non-fiction genres such as recount, report, and instructions. The questions are carefully written to include four different kinds of comprehension: literal, inferential, evaluative and deductive. The teacher's notes contains answers to all the units. * developmental and progressive * carefully selected age-appropriate display texts * lots of subject support-ideal for the non-specialist teacher * follows requirements of NLS Literacy Framework * full text genre coverage

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2001