All new scholastic literacy skills CD-ROM and book packs will recreate this best-selling series for the current market. Each book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM offering posters, interactive activities and photocopiable sheets to download. There are three mini-series within this series: Comprehension; Spelling; and, Grammar and punctuation. "Comprehension: Years 1 and 2" provides teachers with a complete resource to teach children key comprehension skills. This book is split into seven chapters which include: Retelling/Summarising; Predicting; Clarifying; Literal Questioning; Inference Questioning; Evaluation Questioning; and, Reviewing. The book and CD-ROM provide teachers' notes and background knowledge on the skills and a focus on writing - as well as photocopiable pages and interactive activities.

 

This book is part of a book series called New Scholastic Literacy Skills .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Scholastic .

Christina Goodings is the pseudonym of an in-house author. Cathy Hughes is an experienced illustrator for children's publishing, especially the pre-school and primary market - picture books, activity books, sticker and colouring books, finger puppet books, children's magazines and educational books! Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham live in Devon, in a house not too far from the sea. Elspeth writes in a room on the ground floor while Mal writes in the attic. Sometimes they meet in the middle to write books like this one. It is Elspeth who finds the seeds the stories grow from. One of the world's leading children's book creators, Michael Foreman has won numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Kurt Maschler Award and the Bologna Graphics Prize.