To support the teaching of reading in school, children are learning about the following VIPERS skills:
V - Vocabulary
I - Inference
P - Predict
E - Explain
R - Retrieve
S - Summarise/Sequence
In addition we hope the following links will also be useful:
What is comprehension?
An introduction to reading comprehension, exploring how children build their understanding of a text using a combination of background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures and inference.

The following guidance is taken from The Book Trust.