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Skill Clinics

Eight short courses, one per comprehension skill. 8 of 8 clinics are live. Start with the heaviest-weighted skill on most 11+ boards — Inference.

Vocabulary in Context
Reading skill clinic

Work out what a word means from the surrounding sentence — even when the word is unfamiliar.

Heavy across GL, Kent, ISEB
Retrieval
Reading skill clinic

Locate information that is stated directly in the passage. The answer is on the page — your child just needs to find it.

Heavy across all boards
Summarising
Reading skill clinic

Summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph and identify what links them together.

Medium — ISEB foregrounds it
Inference with Evidence
Reading skill clinic

Draw conclusions the text implies but does not say outright. Use clues from the passage plus your own reasoning.

The single heaviest skill on most boards
Prediction
Reading skill clinic

Predict what might happen from details that are both stated and implied in the text.

Light — rarer than in SATs
Text Structure
Reading skill clinic

Identify how a passage is organised — chronological, problem-solution, compare-and-contrast — and how paragraphs link.

Medium — CSSE emphasises this
Word Choice & Figurative Language
Reading skill clinic

Recognise similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia, and explain the effect they create.

Heavy — figurative-language questions
Compare Within & Across Texts
Reading skill clinic

Identify similarities and differences between two short passages — by topic, viewpoint, tone or technique.

Medium — London Consortium and ISEB foreground it

Why eight clinics, not one

Examiners don’t test “comprehension” as a single skill. They test eight distinct reading skills, defined by the Standards & Testing Agency reading framework. Different 11+ boards weight these skills differently — GL Assessment leans on vocabulary in context and inference; CSSE foregrounds figurative language and structure; the London 11+ Consortium uniquely tests comparison across texts. One generic comprehension book cannot prepare a child for all of them. Eight focused clinics can.

Board-aware by design

Every clinic is tagged with the boards that emphasise it most. If your child is sitting GL, ISEB, CSSE or the London Consortium, the prioritisation is built in.

Fresh passages, every lesson

Every mini-passage inside every clinic is brand-new, written for Prep4All in the style of the boards your child is sitting. No recycled past-paper material your child may have already seen.

Evidence-pinning trains the right habit

Children don’t just choose an answer — they learn to point to the sentence that proves it. That single habit is what separates top-band answers from middling ones in every UK 11+ marker’s guide.

No timer, no shame, no leaderboard

The published research on 9–11 year-olds is clear: extrinsic pressure damages long-term motivation. Each clinic teaches one method calmly, with no countdown clock and no comparison to other children.

What’s inside every clinic

The same teach-then-practise structure across all eight — so once your child learns how a clinic works, they can fly through the rest.

5

short lessons
Each ~5 minutes. Teach → worked example → practice question with evidence pin.

3

diagnostic questions
On fresh passages — to check what really stuck.

8

original mini-passages
Per clinic. 64 across all 8 clinics. Commissioned, not copied.

≈4

sessions per clinic
Sized for two short evenings, or one quiet Sunday morning.

What your child will be able to do

By the end of all eight clinics — typically four to six weeks of light, consistent use — your child should be able to do every one of these on a real 11+ paper.

Work out an unfamiliar word from the sentence around it

Scan for facts without re-reading the whole passage

Summarise a multi-paragraph passage in one accurate sentence

Point to the sentence that proves an inference

Predict what a character is most likely to do next — with reasons

Name how a passage is organised — chronology, problem-solution, claim-evidence

Recognise simile, metaphor, personification and explain their effect

Compare two short texts on the same topic, noting both similarity and difference

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Give your child a calm, structured way through 11+ comprehension.

All eight Skill Clinics. The full passages library. Mock papers, audio comprehension, evidence-pinning, weekly parent coaching. Used by 1,000+ UK families. No credit card to start.

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