60-Second Reads Adult Guidance
60-Second Reads Adult Guidance
60-Second Reads Adult Guidance
This resource aims to give you the ability to test a pupil’s level of fluency to this expected standard. Each
60-Second Read Activity Card features a short extract of age-appropriate text with an average word count
of around 90-120 words. The cumulative word count for each line of text is shown in the left-hand margin
of each card. Each of the cards also contains a set of comprehension questions that link to the KS2 reading
content domains.
Each different question type has its own canine helper to remind children of what they need to do to answer a
question appropriately.
Summarising Sheba is there to remind you to Inference Iggy will help you hunt for clues in a
summarise the main point(s) or main event(s) of text about how someone might be feeling or why
a paragraph or text. something is happening.
2c: Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph. 2d: Make inferences from the text / explain and justify
inferences with evidence from the text.
Summary Questions
Compare, Contrast & Comment
Predicting Pip tries to see the future and she will
Cassie the Commentator discusses the content
help you to work out what might happen next
of a paragraph/text and compares events and
from clues in the text.
characters. Can you do the same?
2e: Predict what might happen from details stated and
2f: Identify/explain how information/narrative content is
implied.
related and contributes to meaning as a whole.
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