Develop reading skills and find out about the fascinating life of explorer and mountaineer Edmund Hilary with this KS2 Edmund Hilary Comprehension Pack. Children will learn about Hillary's life, his achievements and his expedition to the top of Mount Everest, before answering a range of different style questions. This pack has been carefully differentiated six ways, with each text accompanied by answers.

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes

- develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read