Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Year 2: Fiction and Poetry provides a gentle introduction to more formal comprehension while introducing children to 10 high-quality extracts from modern literature and 10 poems which will inspire them and help them to see that reading has a purpose.

Exploring these extracts will help pupils to develop reading comprehension skills in Key Stage 1 and ensure a successful transition to Year 3.

Each of the extracts and poems is accompanied by carefully chosen questions to help pupils develop an understanding of all the Key Stage 1 reading content domains: retrieval, inference, vocabulary, sequencing and prediction.

The clear structure and the author's passion for children's literature make Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Year 2: Fiction and Poetry invaluable for everyone working with Year 2 pupils. Support for teachers and parents is built in with guidance for how to teach the different question types, plus suggestions for embedding these texts in the wider English curriculum.

The Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series makes it easy to have a consistent whole-school approach from Year 2 all the way through to the Key Stage 2 SATs. It is suitable for new and recently qualified teachers as well as those who are more experienced and wanting to expand the range of tests they use. If you are looking for a comprehensive resource to enhance reading provision and teaching in the classroom or to support home education, this series is exactly what you need.