VIPERS is a mnemonic to aid adults facilitating the reading process as well as acting as an aid for the pupils.       

VIPERS is based on 6 key reading/comprehension skills:     

            1. Vocabulary

            2. Inference

            3. Prediction

            4. Explanation

            5. Retrieval

            6. Sequence/Summarise

Below are useful question starters that we use to help structure questions about the texts our pupils read: