Is it for me?
Bug Club Comprehension is a robust guided reading programme that uses a powerful and proven talk‑based approach to develop a deeper understanding of texts, regardless of each child’s decoding ability.
- Helps children master fluency and deepen comprehension, giving you everything you need to help them.
- Follows a structured teaching cycle, with meaningful activities every day, to support an in‑depth and consistent focus on comprehension, that centres around rich and meaningful discussion.
- Combines rich print books, audio eBooks and workbooks to keep all children in your class engaged, including poems, historical fiction, stories with humour and non-fiction articles.
- Centres around one text for the whole class, so that that all children access the same text regardless of their decoding ability.
- Every text is available as an audio eBook in the online reading world and can be allocated easily to each child in the online teacher toolkit for reading at home and in the classroom.
- Saves planning time with everything you need to teach comprehension strategies and assess progress.
"Bug Club Comprehension is one of the best things we’ve ever bought. It absolutely does what we wanted. All the children I’ve spoken to have been overwhelmingly positive about it. If I were to give one piece of advice to schools starting out with it, it’s to give your trust to it and give it time to work."
- Katherine Richards, Headteacher, Tupton Primary and Nursery School, UK
Good to know
Bug Club Comprehension is designed to ensure your 7‑11 year‑olds understand the books they are reading. Preparing them for the high reading comprehension expectations of the UK curriculum.
- Online teacher toolkit packed with planning and teaching support
- Printable activities for supporting or extending understanding
- Weekly teaching cards structure each day’s activity
- Beautifully designed texts covering a variety of genres and formats
- Audio eBooks
- Pupil workbooks structure the work around each text
- Teacher handbooks provide curriculum mapping and assessment advice
School based in the United Kingdom? Please click here to view the UK edition of Bug Club Guided Reading
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Read the research
Research tells us that a talk-based approach is key to successful teaching and learning, which is why rich and meaningful discussion is at the heart of Bug Club Comprehension.
Developed with comprehension expert Dr. Wayne Tennent (University of East London, UK), it’s built on a proven ‘three question’ approach, where three core questions form the basis of all comprehension.
Read the guided reading research