Prepare children for the GL Assessment 11+ English exam with this engaging GL-style multiple choice English comprehension paper featuring The House on Blackthorn Lane, an original mystery and suspense text written specifically for this resource.

This 11+ English comprehension practice paper has been designed to provide children with an engaging fiction passage while developing the key reading skills needed for GL-style 11+ and grammar school entrance exams.

What’s included?

• Original mystery and suspense text – The House on Blackthorn Lane, written specifically for this comprehension paper
• 25 GL-style multiple choice comprehension questions
• 11+ style answer sheet
• Full answers with explanations
• Explanations include direct quotes from the text where appropriate, helping children understand how answers can be supported by evidence

Key skills practised

• Retrieval
• Inference
• Vocabulary in context
• Character understanding
• Prediction
• Reading between the lines
• Finding and selecting evidence
• Language analysis
• Understanding descriptive language
• Mood and atmosphere
• Authorial intent
• Multiple-choice comprehension technique

Why use this 11+ comprehension resource?
Unlike resources based on a published extract, The House on Blackthorn Lane is an original text created specifically for this 11+ comprehension paper. The mystery and suspense genre provides an engaging passage designed to encourage children to read carefully and use clues within the text to work out meaning and intention.

The detailed answer explanations make this resource particularly useful for parents, tutors and teachers, allowing children to understand not only which answer is correct, but why it is correct and where the evidence can be found in the text.

Ideal for 11+ English practice, GL Assessment preparation, grammar school entrance exams, homework, tutoring and independent study.