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

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

3. Test development framework

4. Range of difficulty

5. 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

6. Questioning is key!
Year 3

7. Questioning is key!
Year 6

8. Questioning is key!

9. 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?