Reading Comprehension

The reading comprehension activities below involve reading an extract and then answering questions about the text.

Some of the comprehension activities are based around Vipers.

What are Vipers?

VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum.  They are the key areas which children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.

VIPERS stands for

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Sequence or Summarise