This reading comprehension for Years 3 and 4 focuses on the life and work of Florence Nightingale, and her impact on nursing and hospitals – building children’s skills of recall and inference, and enhancing their vocabulary.
This primary resource includes
- 7-page Florence Nightingale reading comprehension worksheet
- Answer sheet
National Curriculum English Programme of Study links
Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:
- Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
- Asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
- Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
- Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these
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