Reading Comprehension 5

Comprehension Louis Fidge Comprehension Louis Fidge MACMILLAN FOUNDATION .SKILLS Contents Page 6 Unit 1 Seeing things differently Unit 2 I want to be an astronaut Unit 3 Esperanto 10 Unit 4 Katie and the dinosaurs 12 Unit 5 The blind boy and the colours 14 Unit 6 Advertisements 16 Unit 7 The miracle 18 Unit 8 Roald Dahl 21 Unit 9 Postcards from Egypt 24 Unit 10 The danger of being stubborn 27 Unit 11 Soraya's blanket 30 Unit 12 Rabbit and Tiger save the world 33 Unit 13 Diana, the people's princess 36 Unit 14 Eating in Morocco 39 Unit 15 Life in space 42 Unit 16 The amazing moving plant 45 Unit 17 The wind 48 Unit 18 Play safely 51 Unit 19 Dinosaur days 54 Unit 20 A night in the jungle 58 Glossary 8 62 r u nc an Unit 1 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Seeing things differently Tradi tional story from India Q uestio ns (literal/i nfe rential / app reciativ e) Adjectiv es Digraph ph Unit 2 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level W or d LeveI I want to be an astronaut Hu morou s poem Featu res of poem/appreciat ion Verb tenses - past/present/future Sof t c an d g Unit 3 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Esperanto Non-ficti on report Questions (lite ral/i nferential/appreciative) Nouns (common and proper) Letter patterns Ie and el Unit 4 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Katie and the dinosaurs Advent ure Questions (literal/inferential) Subject and predicate Letter patterns are, or e, ire and ure Unit 5 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level The blind boy and the colours Descriptive poem Features of poem Similes Rhymin g Unit 6 Text Type Text Level Sentenc e Level .Word Level Advertisements Persuasive writing Features of text Comparative and superlative adjectives Letter pattern l ion Unit 7 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level The miracle Adventure Questions (literal/inferential) Verb tenses - past/present/future Compound words Unit 8 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Roald Dahl Autobiography Questions (literal/inferential) Conjunctions Silent letters Unit 9 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Postcards from Egypt Wr iting postcards Features of presentation and layou t/quest ions Preposition s Use of apostrophes in contractions Unit 10 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level The danger of being stubborn Story with moral issue Cloze procedure Speech marks and dir ect speech Gender words - -~ 2 Unit 11 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Soraya's blanket Story from a different culture Questions (literal/inferential) Subject/verb agreement Anagrams Unit 12 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Rabbit and Tiger save the world Playseript (based on t raditional story from Puerto Rico) Features of the play/questions Pronouns Double consonant s within words Unit 13 Text Type Text Level Sentence Level Word Level Diana, the people's princess Autobiography Features of text/questions Homophones Adjectives/abstract nouns Unit 14 Text Type Text Level Sentence Lev