This Year 3 reading comprehension unit is based on Report by award-winning children’s poet Joshua Seigal. It's a lively and reflective poem looking at themes of school life, personal growth and relationships.
The text gives pupils an engaging opportunity to develop key comprehension skills through repeated reading, discussion, vocabulary work and creative response.
You can teach this unit on its own, or as part of Real Comprehension – a whole-school programme that supports deeper reading through 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 and builds pupils’ comprehension through structured reading, vocabulary work and creative response.
The poem is provided in multiple formats to support flexible teaching. You’ll find plain, illustrated and annotated PDFs, as well as PowerPoint versions with and without highlighted vocabulary. The annotated teacher version offers close reading prompts and flags points for drama, discussion or visualisation.
A layered reading approach helps build fluency and understanding. Pupils model read, echo read and pair read the poem while exploring tone, rhythm and meaning.
The unit includes two vocabulary-focused lessons using the words collaborate and confiscate, supported by PowerPoints that explore definitions, synonyms, usage and context.
Additional resources help pupils sketch the narrator, respond to Big Questions, and revisit the whole text through retrieval and personal reflection tasks.
This Year 3 reading comprehension resource pack includes:
- Report by Joshua Seigal (PDF: plain, illustrated, annotated)
- PowerPoint versions of the text (with and without highlights)
- Teacher's annotated text with close reading prompts
- Vocabulary Focus PowerPoints for collaborate and confiscate
- Worksheets
- Big Questions PowerPoints
- Full teaching notes