🎓 Pilot Course

11+ Comprehension Fundamentals

The core reading and comprehension skills for the 11+, taught through classic stories — one skill, one book at a time.

📦 3 blocks 📚 24 lessons 🎯 Comprehension

Block 1 — Foundations

8 lessons
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Genre & Conventions
1001 Nights
Recognise text types and the conventions that define them.
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Forms & Features
Alice in Wonderland
Tell literary forms apart by their distinguishing features.
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3
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Retrieval & Summarising
Treasure Island
Skim and scan to find key information, then summarise it.
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4
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Precise Evidence & Word-Level Analysis
White Fang
Select precise quotations and analyse writers' word choices.
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5
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Inference & Evidence
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Read between the lines, drawing conclusions from evidence.
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Point, Evidence, Explanation
Robinson Crusoe
Structure clear answers using the PEE method.
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Characterisation
The Canterville Ghost
How writers reveal who a character is.
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8
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Style & Tone
Into the Labyrinth
How a writer's style shapes the tone and mood of a text.
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Metaphors & Similes
The Jungle Book
Identify and analyse comparisons that create vivid images.
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2
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Symbolism & Imagery
The Call of the Wild
Identify and analyse symbols and the images they evoke.
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3
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Personification & Pathetic Fallacy
At the Back of the North Wind
Identify and analyse how writers give feeling to objects and nature.
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4
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Sound Devices
The Railway Children
Alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia — and their effects.
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5
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Tone & Hyperbole
The Tell-Tale Heart
Identify and analyse tone and the effect of exaggeration.
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6
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Irony
The Monkey’s Paw
Identify and analyse verbal, situational and dramatic irony.
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7
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Audience & Purpose
English Fairy Tales
Work out who a text is for and why it was written.
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8
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Repetition for Effect
Identify and analyse how repeated words and ideas build meaning.
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1
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Vocabulary Skills
Synonyms, antonyms and idioms — and how they shape meaning.
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2
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Sentence Length & Structure
Analyse how sentence length and structure create effect.
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3
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Viewpoint & Perspective
Recognise whose eyes a story is told through, and why it matters.
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4
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Focus & Argument
Just So Stories
Track a writer’s main focus and follow their line of argument.
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5
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Persuasive Writing
Facts, opinions and rhetoric — how writers persuade their readers.
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6
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Inferences & Predictions
Make imaginative inferences and predict what comes next.
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7
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Common Question Types
Recognise the question types that come up in comprehension papers.
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8
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Annotation Strategies
Use annotation strategies to tackle exam comprehension with confidence.
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