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In recent years, comprehension skills have become a much greater focus; certainly in the UK where I teach. This was partly due to poor performance in the PISA scores.
As such, teaching and practicing these skills took a much greater emphasis in guided reading sessions. So often, however, the texts that we were looking at were just so dull.
For me, teaching a child to read should not be about tests. It shouldn’t be too mechanical and methodical. Teaching a child to read is about opening whole new worlds to them. It should be fun. It should be educational. The ultimate goal of reading is that it should be a pleasurable activity. So I started writing my own comprehensions.
I went through a spell of being fascinated by the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot; developing a comprehension pack on mysteries of the world. I was captivated by World War One for a few months when it was the centenary of the start of the war. There were some fantastic individual stories in there – the soldier who saved Hitler being a controversial but engaging favourite for many of my students. I also covered amazing stories of survival, such as the miners in Chile who were stuck underground for over a month. Amazing stories! The students loved them – and I really enjoyed writing them.
Reading for Success 