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Complete Comprehension

The essential resource for teaching comprehension, combining a skills-based approach with explicit vocabulary instruction and stimulating enrichment activities.

Complete Comprehension

Comprising six books of teacher's notes and photocopiable resources, Complete Comprehension is a whole-school programme designed to support children from their first steps in comprehension through to secure ownership and confident application of comprehension skills.

Written by a team of expert authors, the series breaks down the complex process of reading comprehension into separate skills that closely match the curriculum requirements for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Each teaching unit targets one comprehension skill, which is introduced through a modelling session and then practised using test-style questions.


complete comprehension Year 1, Year 3, Year 6

Why choose Complete Comprehension?

The Complete Comprehension series will help to:

  • reduce teacher workload – detailed lesson plans include pre-teaching, extension tasks and carefully selected texts
  • increase cultural capital – built-in background knowledge and paired texts encourage understanding, comparison and discussion
  • widen pupil vocabulary – carefully selected extracts provide the foundational word knowledge children need to access the curriculum
  • build reading confidence – each unit focuses on a target skill that develops strong, competent readers
  • grow a reading repertoire – engaging texts from a range of genres encourage reading for pleasure
  • develop curriculum links – a progressive, reading-rich programme to embed across your school's curriculum.

What is included in each book?

Each Complete Comprehension resource includes:

  • a Skills guide, providing in-depth explanations for each comprehension skill
  • engaging text passages from a range of genres, including high-quality contemporary fiction
  • a lesson plan for each unit, featuring a Language toolkit to support explicit vocabulary teaching
  • extensive discussion and enrichment activities to build background knowledge
  • photocopiable Target-skill questions and Mix it up! questions
  • three informal assessment checks to help you monitor progress
  • a range of online resources, including printable texts and modelling slides for each unit.
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complete comprehension book 5 The Wolf Wilder

Comprehension texts

Each Complete Comprehension book contains up to 24 text passages, which are arranged in themed pairs and linked by either author or subject matter.

The texts have been carefully selected in order to provide a rich and diverse reading repertoire that can be embedded into your school’s wider curriculum. These pairings have been planned to facilitate discussion and comparison of related texts as you move through the book.

Paired texts

Beetle Boy, a popular fictional story about an adventurous beetle enthusiast, has been paired with Beetle Boy: The Beetle Collector’s Handbook, a factual book written in the style of an old guide. The pairing of these texts gives children the chance to explore the similarities and differences between them, as well as explore other topics such as science and nature.

Beetle Boy Complete Comprehension

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