BASIC SKILLS: COMPREHENSION follows in the established format of the previous books in the successful BASIC SKILLS series. This inspiring new resource provides a wide range of exciting activities for teachers to use with 11 to 14 year-olds, who are operating at National Curriculum Level 4 or below.

The innovative and stimulating photocopiable worksheets contain sentence-level activities, which can be used within the classroom or at home. They help to teach traditional basic skills progressively, and then reinforce new knowledge through lively and enjoyable games. The author has provided the teacher with invaluable guidance on how the worksheets can be used to best effect.

The worksheets offer motivating comprehension skills exercises, and the clear, uncluttered layout fosters confidence and enjoyment in the work. The activities are designed to raise achievement, enabling pupils to improve their sentence-level work while making learning fun!

This book is part of a book series called Basic Skills .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Hodder Education .

Glenne Hutchings is an experienced teacher with 30 years teaching experience and 10 years experience as a SENCo. She has been an advisor on the LIVEWIRE series since 1996.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Where is it?
• • : The index - making it work for you
  • : Skimming
  • : Scanning
  • : Glossary
• 2: Who is it for? What does it say?
• • : Taking the meaning from a range of writing (formal and informal)
  • : The school report
  • : Hospital log
  • : Diary entries
  • : Notes and memos
  • : Advertising leaflet
  • : Information pamphlet
• 3: What to do with it when you've found it
• • : Mapping - recording information the easy way
• 4: Playing detective
• • : Inference and deduction
  • : Ambiguity
• 5: Fact and opinion
• • : Understanding the difference between fact and opinion when writing
  • : Recognising bias
• 6: Media texts
• • : News items - what do they want us to think?
  • : How the media report the news - just what should we believe?
• 7: Seeing is believing
• • : Comparing different forms of text presentation
  • : Who is the intended audience?
  • : What is the message?
• 8: The beginning and the ending
• • : Do we need to read the rest?
  • : Starting with the end - the blurb
  • : Grabbing the reader's attention - how the opening paragraph leads us in
• 9: Using what you know
• • : Samples of a variety of texts, asking the student to use the skills taught in the last 7 chapters