Book excerpt: Mastering Literary Texts (Poems and Stories) for S.E.A. and Lower Secondary School helps children improve their reading comprehension skills through clear explanations, appropriate examples and focused practice. With almost 150 pages of fun and challenging activities, Mastering Literary Texts (Poems and Stories) for S.E.A. and Lower Secondary School introduces concepts such as context clues, mood, tone, figures of speech, points of view, conflict, and instructs students in making inferences and drawing conclusions. This comprehension solution includes exam tips for answering questions based on a poem or story and twenty literary passages with practice questions that are aligned with the current curriculum and the Secondary Entrance Assessment specifications. It also contains an expanded glossary of literary terms. This student-friendly handbook helps children to think critically and hone their comprehension skills in preparation for the next level. Thus, it is the perfect tool for school or home. Sharon R. Wilson-Strann has taught for almost thirty years in public and private schools in Trinidad and Antigua. Currently, she is the Education Director at Oaktree International Institute of Education. She has a B.Ed. in Language Education (Literatures in English, with First Class Honours), from the University of the West Indies. In 2006 she earned her M.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of Edinburgh in the UK.