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Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys and girls - together with questions that both build and stretch comprehension skills and widen vocabulary. Comprising four one-per-child activity books and providing more than 72 texts in total - the series encourages children to pay close attention to literal meaning - make inferences and deductions - observe how writing is structured and identify literary devices. A separate Teachers Guide is also available. Book 4 reflects the broadening interests and word power of young people who will soon move to secondary school - or have now done so. It includes: non-fiction texts covering the discovery in Russia of a long-extinct mammoth - shells and their origins and the life of explorer Robert Scott - the poignant last letter from Scott to his widow - classic poetry from Rudyard Kipling - Edward Thomas - Edward Lear and William Wordsworth - a short extract from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare - riveting fiction from R.L. Stevenson - Thomas Hardy - Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens and absorbing autobiographies and biographical fiction from Roald Dahl and Alison Prince....