English Reading Teaching Resources

Discover reading texts, comprehension activities and an interactive presentations to develop skills in reading for Key Stage One covering a range of different types of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts

  • Traditional Tales

    Traditional Tales

    Read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and format of a range of stories with traditional narrative sequences

  • Weather Explanations

    Weather Explanations

    Investigate the structure and content of explanations that describe how and why different types of weather can occur in the world

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty

  • Journeys Poems

    Journeys Poems

    Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport

  • Special Places Poems

    Special Places Poems

    Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world