Many children struggle with reading comprehension and, now that pupils are heading back to the classroom, you may be thinking about what you can do to get them back on track with their comprehension skills.
To help support you and your teaching, we've pulled together some of our top comprehension resources from Bond, the UK's trusted provider of SATs, 11+ and selective entrance exam practice material.
All of the resources below are linked to the National Curriculum and offer rigorous practice to help consolidate and build children’s comprehension skills both at home and in the classroom.
To discover the full range of C-19 and catch up support available to you from Oxford, please visit www.oxfordprimary.co.uk
Free comprehension practice papers (PDFs)
✔ Ideal to use with students aged 9-11
Practice comprehension with our free test papers (and accompanying answers).
Texts include Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and a series of non-fiction texts on the theme of football.
*Please note that you will need to register/login to your free Bond Online account and then look under Free Resources > English > Practice Tests.
Bond comprehension workbooks
✔ Ideal to use with students aged 8-12
✔ Ideal for home learning support
For how-to support and carefully graded practice, discover the full Bond comprehension range, including a step-by-step Focus on Comprehension guide, general skills practice books, test papers and SATs Skills workbooks.
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How to do comprehension (video)
✔ Ideal to use with students aged 9-11
11+ tutor Alvon Stewart works through a series of comprehension questions and shows how to help children infer the correct answer using the clues available in a text.
How to help improve reading comprehension (blog)
✔ Ideal for home learning support
Written by experienced primary school teacher and private tutor Liz Heesom, this blog looks at the common issues children have with comprehension and how parents can help their children overcome them at home.
Fun home learning activities (blog)
✔ Ideal for home learning support
Help make key skills practice fun with eight winter into spring activities to try at home, including ideas to improve comprehension. They’re full of ways to boost skills without always sitting down at a desk!
Don't forget your dictionary
92% of teachers think that school closures and remote learning will contribute to a widening of the word gap*, and it goes without saying that vocabulary knowledge is strongly related to reading comprehension skill throughout a child’s development.
Oxford create dictionaries and thesauruses for children of all ages that are specially compiled to meet the demands of the school curriculum.
View the full range of Oxford Children's Dictionaries here >
*For more information on the word gap visit: oxford.ly/wordgap