The Comprehension Box 1 (Ages 5-7)

• The comprehension box series is a set of three boxes of comprehension cards suitable for students of ages 5-7 (Box 1), ages 8-10 (Box 2) and ages 11+ (Box 3).
• The boxed sets provide supplementary materials to support the reading program of teachers catering for the needs of capable, independent readers at each level in the classroom.
• The cards feature both fiction and non-fiction texts (incorporating Society and Environment, Science and Health and Values) and fully support the National English Curriculum, which requires teachers to use texts from a wide range of genre and school subjects.
• Each comprehension box incorporates three levels of comprehension question cards in a multiple-choice format and assesses 12 different comprehension skills.
• Separate answer cards allow the students to work and progress at their own rate while keeping a record for their own and the teacher's reference.

The cards vary in difficulty, depending on the:

• topic; e.g. interest and background knowledge
• conceptual understanding required
• age appropriateness
• artwork included
• number of words
• number of questions
• complexity of the questions
• complexity of sentence structure
• length of the sentences
• grammatical complexity; e.g. passive/active verbs
• difficulty of the vocabulary
• length of the text, as determined by the font size and return spacing.

Each box contains:

• 150 colourfully illustrated cards with texts covering a variety of genres and text types
• 15 colour-coded sections
• 10 cards in each of the 15 sections, numbered (front to back) from 1 to 10
• questions on the back of each card
• answer cards
• a teachers guide

Ideal for Ages 5-7