Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension, Year 1 (3rd Ed): EngagingTexts and Activities to Develop Comprehension Skills

The Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension (3rd edition) is a six-book series for Years 1 to 6 that helps primary school children develop their reading comprehension skills and foster a love of reading. It includes engaging texts from various genres, with over a third of the passages new in the 3rd edition. The questions have been rewritten to link more closely to the reading content domains and include short and long question types. Extension activities provide open-ended questions, creative activities, and writing ideas for differentiation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 164 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2023
Publisher: Brilliant Publications

The Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension (3rd edition) is a comprehensive six-book series designed for primary school children in Years 1 to 6. It offers engaging and enjoyable texts to help children develop their reading comprehension skills and foster a love of reading. The Year 1 book begins with simple picture comprehension passages and gradually increases in difficulty as children progress through the book and series. The passages cover a range of genres, including newspaper articles, descriptive reports, plays, stories, and poems, exposing children to a variety of literary styles. Over a third of the passages in the 3rd edition are new, including many non-fiction pieces linked to the history curriculum. The questions for all the passages have been completely rewritten to link more closely to the reading content domains and to ensure a mixture of short and long question types. The extension activities provide teachers with open-ended questions to stimulate class and small group discussions, as well as creative activities and writing ideas, which will stretch more able pupils and make it easy to provide differentiation. The books are ideal for ensuring children develop higher order reading comprehension skills, make good progress throughout primary school, and excel at SATs in Year 6 and at 11+ Comprehension Tests.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 209 x 297 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857479594