Reading and Listening Comprehension Skills

An important part of the role of developing and reinforcing early reading skills is to ensure that children practise the key skill - taking the meaning from the print.

Rhyme is an important support in assisting emerging and developing readers as it adds a contextual and rhythmic structure to the text that children love. "Reading/Listening Comprehension Skills" includes 28 modern rhymes, each followed by a comprehension and word study page so that the poems are used for teaching specific skills as well as providing reading practise.

As children get to know and love the poems they naturally enjoy reading them over and over again.

Teaching notes give ideas on ways to share poems as a class or in groups so the poems as part of the Literacy Hour is something that students look forward to.