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Year 3 Reading Comprehension - Autumn Term
Perseverance

4 Resource Packs

About the theme

Moving into KS2, pupils start by thinking about perseverance - a quality shared by almost every literary hero ever created, and which can help lead to success in school and beyond. Links can be made with British history, through the story of Robert the Bruce. Resources to support children in making connections between the texts can be found in the ‘pulling it all together’ pack, as can a suggested list of books also linked to the theme, which could be read as a class.

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Real Comprehension

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Poetry

The King and the Spider

Told in verse, the story of Robert the Bruce and a determined little spider has a timeless message.

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Book character

Non-Fiction

Sophie Christiansen CBE - Born to Succeed?

Find out about the amazing life and achievements of one of the UK's most successful Paralympians.

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Fiction

Ride Like You Mean It!

Zena wants a rabbit for her birthday - so when she gets a bike instead, some real strength of character is needed...

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Finished all three texts?

Pulling it all together

Once you have gone through all three texts with pupils, establishing familiarity and understanding with each, you can use these additional resources to help children engage with them thematically, making links between the texts, and to others they may have read or heard of. A suggested list of books for class reading, linked to the unit theme, is also included.

Pulling it all together
Real Comprehension, 54 original texts - 18 themes

See all resources in the Real Comprehension programme

Real Comprehension is a unique, whole-school reading programme designed to develop sophisticated skills of inference and retrieval; build rich vocabularies; and encourage the identification of themes and comparison between texts from years 1 to 6.