Comprehension content Domains What are the key skills required for reading in your year group? Do you know the expectations?

Differentiating comprehension activity How do you challenge children with a high level of comprehension?

Test development framework

Range of difficulty

Effective questioning How to extend questions Relatively large amount of text to find the answer – not overly guided (e.g. Pages 4-5 not a specific page or paragraph section) Requiring children to read back to find the answer – before the key words Answers crossing pages. Answer on the next page to the key word Answers requiring inference as well as the main skill e.g. retrieval q - the cat was ‘too shiny. Too chubby.’ What conclusion does Gaby draw from this? Language of the question needing to be understood/unpicked – ‘make it illegal’ in question – ‘outlawed’ in the text Flicking between paragraphs for true or false questions 2 answers in one sentence Language questions where word meaning cannot be inferred using context clues Plausible options for ‘tick’ questions

Questioning is key! Year 3

Questioning is key! Year 6

Questioning is key!

Quality texts Effective text selection is vital. What are your favourite children’s books? Which year group are they most suitable for? What tasks could you plan using those books?