Description
Book SynopsisComprehension for independent readers - Middle offers a range of writing genres and activities to develop theskills required for comprehension.The aim is to provide pupils with the opportunity to work independently to extract information from different textsand to demonstrate the different levels of comprehension: literal, inferential and evaluative.Most units in the book focus on the literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension of a particular text type or theuse of a specific figure of speech. Appreciation of the latter is necessary for the inferential and evaluative levels ofcomprehension.A number of units are puzzle-based and focus on the understanding of vocabulary and the skill of scanning as well asextracting information from text types such as time lines.
Table of ContentsTeachers notes... ivCurriculum links... vSpace is the place (Poster) ... 2-4The life of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (Time line) ... 5-7How to cross the road at traffic lights (Flowchart) ... 8-10The jungle book and Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Scanning) ... 11-13Reading sense out of nonsense (Interpreting) ... 14-16Random ideas (Facts and opinions) ... 17-19The human body (Diagrams) ... 20-22Missing words (Crosswords) ... 23-24Definitions (Crosswords) ... 25The rainbow bird (Poetry) ... 26Baby's dream (Poetry) ... 27The fish (Poetry) ... 28Rhyming couplets (Poetry) ... 29At the bottom of the garden - 1 (Story) ... 30-32At the bottom of the garden - 2 (Story) ... 33-35Simon's School Supplies (Sales catalogue) ... 36-38Tautology and double negatives (Awkward writing) ... 39-41Fishy fish (Data grid) ... 42Who killed Willard? (Data grid) ... 43Classifying animals (Data grid) ... 44Superheroes (Data grid) ... 45Sandra at the zoo (Comic book) ... 46-48A lot of work for a prince (Play script) ... 49-52Understanding proverbs (Proverbs) ... 53-54Proverb word search (Proverbs) ... 55-56Answers ... 57-61
