This Year 3 reading comprehension unit is built around The Privilege of Education. This is an original non-fiction text by children’s author Lucy Strange.
The text explores global inequalities in access to education. It supports children in understanding and valuing their own opportunities to learn.
You can teach this unit on its own, or as part of Real Comprehension – a whole-school programme that develops deeper reading using thematically-linked, high-quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts from Years 1 to 6. This unit sits within the Year 3 theme The Value of Education.
You’ll guide pupils through a rich teaching sequence that builds comprehension, activates empathy and develops vocabulary knowledge.
The text is divided into three parts, each supported by close reading notes, explicit vocabulary activities, and open-ended ‘Big Questions’. These extend understanding and prompt meaningful discussion.
The vocabulary focus for this unit includes the words privilege, rural and wealth, helping pupils explore meaning, synonyms, antonyms and contextual usage.
The resource pack includes teacher notes that suggest how to structure your lessons using a range of reading approaches, including model, choral, paired and ‘jump in’ reading. It also includes opportunities for drama, hot-seating, discussion and personal response, with guidance for adapting activities to your class.
The comprehension work builds core reading skills including retrieval, sequencing, prediction and inference, while encouraging pupils to make connections between the text, themselves and the wider world.
This resource pack includes:
- Full teacher notes with suggested reading strategies and discussion opportunities
- The full non-fiction text by Lucy Strange in plain, illustrated and annotated PDF formats
- PowerPoint versions of the text (with and without highlights)
- Annotated teacher text with close reading prompts
- Three-part resourced teaching sequence, with accompanying vocabulary PPTs
- Big Questions PowerPoints and worksheets
- Non-fiction image cards
- Worksheets for revisiting the whole text