English Reading Comprehension Resources

Discover shared reading texts, activity worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English reading comprehension for Key Stage One covering a range of fiction and non-fiction text genres

  • Transport Journeys

    Transport Journeys

    Investigate the content structure of explanations that explain how and why families make different journeys by a range of forms of transport

  • Spooky Things

    Spooky Things

    Investigate the structure and content of narrative fiction and poetry that describe some of the spooky things that might happen in the world

  • 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

  • Traditional Tales

    Traditional Tales

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

  • Stone Soup

    Stone Soup

    Explore how to read and respond to a traditional story to identify and record the sequence of narrative events experienced by the characters

  • Money Coin Sums

    Money Coin Sums

    Practise identifying, combining and recording sets of coins that can make matching sums that can be used when shopping for different products

  • Maths Number Assessment

    Maths Number Assessment

    Assess abilities in working with numbers to solve abstract and contextual problems when calculating sums, products and quotients using different techniques and methods

  • Animal Lists

    Animal Lists

    Investigate how to compile lists using commas to present information about some of the special animals that live in habitats around the world

  • English Spelling Assessment

    English Spelling Assessment

    Assess abilities in spelling different vocabulary words based on the National Curriculum programmes of study for Key Stage One