Reading V.I.P.E.R.S for The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas

The text provides chapter-by-chapter VIPERS questions for John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, aimed at enhancing reading comprehension. Each chapter includes questions that focus on six key areas:

• Vocabulary (exploring word meanings)
• Inference (drawing conclusions from the text)
• Prediction (guessing future events)
• Explanation (clarifying ideas or motivations)
• Retrieval (recalling specific information)
• Summarising/Sequencing (summarising events or putting them in order).

The questions explore Bruno’s emotions, relationships, innocence, and interactions, alongside themes of war, prejudice, and guilt, encouraging readers to think critically about the characters, plot, and underlying messages of the novel.