This comprehension crusher reading scheme pack includes two texts based around the theme of deforestation. The first text, that accompanies the teaching slides, is a text characterising speech which shows animals in a rainforest confronting a human who is about to cut down a mighty tree, which is their home. It has been written to meet the Year 4 expected standard and comes with two sets of comprehension questions, based on two curriculum content domains (retrieval and inference). The teaching slides provided, along with the questions sets, allow for in depth practice of each individual question type.

The second model text also focuses on characterising speech, describing a girl called Gertie who confronts a tribe of destructive goliaths on their way to harm a rainforest. This text has been written to meet the Year 4 expected standard and is accompanied by one set of comprehension questions, which includes the two styles of question, previously practised. This provides an ‘unseen’ text and additional questions to practise these same skills independently. The answers to all questions are included.

National curriculum objectives:
Year 4: Pupils should be taught to answer a variety of comprehension questions across a mixture of genres. This text focuses on developing retrieval and inference skills.

Level of this pack:
Age: 8-9...