Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Upper KS2 presents 20 high-quality non-fiction, fiction and poetry texts and photocopiable activities to help embed comprehension skills across the curriculum – specifically inference style questions. With accompanying question sets that challenge pupils to effectively summarise, predict, and infer from the text, this practical resource will save teachers time and supercharge pupils’ reading comprehension skills. Difficulty increases through the book to enable teachers to meet the needs of pupils.

Skill / Question Type Coverage:

Each text comes with a range of question styles which include all of the below (see product gallery).

• Simple Inference questions
• Sentence Level Inference including multiple choice style questions.
• ‘This Suggests’ style questions
• Two Mark questions – provide evidence from text to prove via inference
• Three Mark question – provide three pieces of evidence to prove via inference.
• Three Mark Questions – What Impression style questions
• Summary, Prediction and Sequencing Questions

As well as improving their comprehension skills, this book provides excellent SATs practice for every child. Inference makes up 30% to 50% of the marks available in the Reading SATs paper, closely following retrieval as the main domain in which children can acquire marks.

Comprehension Ninja books are firmly embedded in hundreds of schools’ reading systems and is considered an essential resource.