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    Teacher Guidance - KS2

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    This document provides guidance on comprehension packs for KS2 focused reading skills. It outlines three levels of comprehension activities - Step 4 for extending skills, Step 5 for consolidating skills, and Step 6 for advancing skills. Each level contains three passages followed by questions relating to KS2 reading domains. The questions are designed to reflect SAT assessment demands and cover skills like vocabulary, retrieval, summarization, inference, prediction, comparison/contrast, and understanding author's choices. Illustrations of different dogs are provided to remind students what each question type involves.

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    Teacher Guidance - KS2

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    This document provides guidance on comprehension packs for KS2 focused reading skills. It outlines three levels of comprehension activities - Step 4 for extending skills, Step 5 for consolidating skills, and Step 6 for advancing skills. Each level contains three passages followed by questions relating to KS2 reading domains. The questions are designed to reflect SAT assessment demands and cover skills like vocabulary, retrieval, summarization, inference, prediction, comparison/contrast, and understanding author's choices. Illustrations of different dogs are provided to remind students what each question type involves.

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    This document provides guidance on comprehension packs for KS2 focused reading skills. It outlines three levels of comprehension activities - Step 4 for extending skills, Step 5 for consolidating skills, and Step 6 for advancing skills. Each level contains three passages followed by questions relating to KS2 reading domains. The questions are designed to reflect SAT assessment demands and cover skills like vocabulary, retrieval, summarization, inference, prediction, comparison/contrast, and understanding author's choices. Illustrations of different dogs are provided to remind students what each question type involves.

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    Teacher Guidance - KS2

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    Deepak Kaushik
    This document provides guidance on comprehension packs for KS2 focused reading skills. It outlines three levels of comprehension activities - Step 4 for extending skills, Step 5 for consolidating skills, and Step 6 for advancing skills. Each level contains three passages followed by questions relating to KS2 reading domains. The questions are designed to reflect SAT assessment demands and cover skills like vocabulary, retrieval, summarization, inference, prediction, comparison/contrast, and understanding author's choices. Illustrations of different dogs are provided to remind students what each question type involves.

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    KS2 Focused Reading Skills

    Comprehension Pack Guidance


    (Steps 4 - 6)
    Our ‘Focused Reading Skill Comprehension Packs’ contain three separate comprehension activities with a
    related theme, and are designed to cater for all of the reading abilities within your class/key stage.
    The comprehensions themselves are broken down into three levels:

    Step 4 Extending Reading Skills

    Designed to help pupils to extend their skills to begin to meet all of the demands of the KS2
    reading content domains. These activities contain three passages of text followed by a number
    of related questions linked to several different reading skills. They contain eleven questions in
    total with some in a KS2 SATs-style layout.

    Step 5 Consolidating Reading Skills

    Designed to consolidate all of the expected KS2 reading skills. These activities contain three
    longer, more complex passages of text followed by related questions based on all of the KS2
    reading content domains with twelve questions in total in many different SAT-style formats,
    e.g. multiple choice, find and copy, ranking/ordering, open-ended response.

    Step 6 Advancing Reading Skills

    Designed to very much reflect the demands of a KS2 SAT assessment where the children are
    expected to read a more advanced whole text before answering twelve related questions based
    on all of the KS2 content domain reading skills.

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    KS2 Focused Reading Skills Comprehension Pack Guidance (Steps 4 - 6)

    All of the reading skills questions relate to the eight different KS2 reading content domains. Each question
    has its own canine helper displayed to remind pupils what to do to answer it:

    Vocabulary Questions
    Vocabulary Victor is there to help you work out the meaning of unknown
    words and phrases using context clues.

    2a: Give/explain the meaning of words in context.

    Retrieval Questions
    Rex Retriever is there to help you to go into a text and just simply retrieve
    the facts and key details.

    2b: Retrieve and record information/identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.

    Summary Questions
    Summarising Sheba is there to remind you to summarise the main point(s)
    or main event(s) of a paragraph or text.

    2c: Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph.

    Inference Questions
    Inference Iggy will help you hunt for clues in a text about how someone
    might be feeling or why something is happening.

    2d: Make inferences from the text/explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text.

    Prediction Questions
    Predicting Pip tries to see the future and she will help you to work out
    what might happen next from clues in the text.

    2e: Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.

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    Compare, Contrast & Comment Questions
    Cassie the Commentator discusses the content of a paragraph/text and
    compares events and characters. Can you do the same?

    2f: Identify/explain how information/narrative content is related and contributes to meaning


    as a whole.
    2h: Make comparisons within the text.

    Author Choice Questions


    Arlo the Author likes to help you to spot examples of ambitious vocabulary
    and figurative language, and explain how these words/phrases add to the
    meaning of the text.

    2g: Identify/explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.

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