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Real Comprehension Sample Units

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Sample Units

Download FREE units for Years 1, 4 and 6 to try out in your school.

  • Build deeper understanding for children of all abilities through a variety of close-reading and guided reading techniques.
  • Improve pupils' ability to make high-level inferences and links between texts, and extend their vocabulary with focused lessons.
  • Engage your class and save time with fully resourced teaching sequences and original texts written by well-known children’s authors.

Real Comprehension
Year 1 FREE fiction unit
Year 4 FREE non-fiction unit
Year 6 FREE poetry unit

READ ME

The Wrong Path

Check out a progression map of themes from years 1 - 6

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READ ME

The Wrong Path

Explore thematic wider reading suggestions for the full programme

Download book lists

How does Real Comprehension work?

1. Introduce the theme

Expore words related to the theme; discuss ideas pupils have about it

(see teacher notes for unit overview and guidance)

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2. Explore the texts (fiction/non-fiction/poetry} by children's authors

Check prior knowledge

READ IN SECTIONS

  • Build familiarity with a layered read
  • Secure undertanding withn a close read
  • Deepen engagement with supplied activites (e.g. emotion graphing)
  • Tackle Big Questions as a class and independently

REVISIT THE WHOLE TEXT

  • Practise 'difficult easy' questions
  • Discuss pupils' personal responses
  • Develop vocabulary with focused lessons
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3. Pull it all together
  • Explore the theme with the questions provided
  • Share whole books and extracts from the reading list
  • Relate the theme to wider reading, and childern's own experiences
  • Have their ideas changed since the start of the unit?
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