Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the civil rights activist Nelson Mandela. The text covers Mandela’s early life as a lawyer, the introduction of apartheid and Mandela’s imprisonment and release, before his election as president.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This is a great resource for topics of famous lives, key historical figures and Black History Month.
Resource pack contents
- 6-page PDF fact sheet
- 3-page PDF questions worksheet
National Curriculum English programme of study links
- Read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum
- Develop positive attitudes to reading
- Listen to and discuss a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
- Look at non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
- Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
- Develop comprehension skills via high-quality discussion and reading and discussing a range of stories, poems and non-fiction
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