Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Year 5-6: Classic Poetry Av Kate Heap

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Poetry is a flexible teaching resource designed to give children a greater understanding of poems, and to increase their confidence in answering questions about poems in the KS2 SATs. Itintroduces children in upper Key Stage 2 to carefully selected classic poems, whichhave stood the test of time. Their meaning is universal and timeless: as true now as it was when they were first written.The resource will help pupils to develop a love of poetry by introducing themto a world where playing with language is the norm and there area multitude ofright answers.Through exploring the language and themes of the poems, pupils willfind out more about themselves and the world around them.The activities help to guide children through the poems, providing them with opportunities tounderstand the poet''s choice ofvocabulary, widen their knowledge of synonyms, develop understanding of challenging language devices and practise their reading comprehension skills.All the activities are linked to the eightquestion types for the reading content domainthat appear in the KS2 Reading SATs papers: vocabulary, retrieval, summary, inference, prediction, text meaning, author''s use of language and compare and contrast. Through working through the activities, pupils will develop an understanding of the type of answer required for each question type andwill become more confident at answering these types of question.The flexibility of this resource means that youcan choose to use itin many different ways. Whether you choose to use it for whole class sessions, smaller teacher-led sessions or for independent tasks, you can be sure that pupils will be learning some wonderful classic poems and improving their comprehension skills.The book contains the following classic poetry:Night Clouds by Amy LowellAn Autumn Evening by Lucy Maud MontgomeryIn Flanders Fields by John McCraeLeisure by W.H. DaviesIn the Bleak Midwinter by Christina RossettiThe Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers by Emily DickinsonThe Highwayman by Alfred NoyesThe Listeners by Walter de la MareNorth of Time by Rachel FieldThe Tyger by William BlakeA Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThis book is the second book in a series of 8 Developing Reading Comprehension Skills through ... and a companion for Classic Children''s Literature, Years 5-6The other books will be:Classic Children''s Literature, Years 3-4Classic Poetry, Years 3-4Contemporary Children''s Literature, Years 5-6Contemporary Children''s Literature, Years 3-4Non-fiction, Years 5-6Non-fiction, Years 3-4