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Developing Reading Comprehension Skills. Years 5-6 Classic Poetry

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills. Years 5-6 Classic Poetry

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Publisher's Synopsis

Each of the 12 classic poems is accompanied by eight sets of questions based on the Key Stage 2 (KS2) Reading Content Domains and National Curriculum. The accompanying activities provide opportunities to tackle more complex vocabulary, explore howauthors use language to impact their readers and hone inference skills. The clear structure and the author's passion for literature make Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Poetry invaluable for everyone workingwith pupils aged 9-11.

Support for teachers and parents is built in with guidance for how to teach the 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 those who are more experienced and looking to expand the range of texts they use.

If you're looking for a comprehensive resource to enhance reading provision and teaching in your classroom or to support home education, this is exactlywhat you need. Look for other books in the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series.

This book contains the following classic poetry:
  • 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

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Book information

ISBN: 9780857478467
Publisher: Brilliant Publications Limited
Imprint: Brilliant Publications
Pub date:
DEWEY: 372.640440941
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 166
Weight: 518g
Height: 296mm
Width: 207mm
Spine width: 16mm

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