Reading Ages

Year 3 Reading Skills – Of Gods and Men

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Of Gods and Men resource contains an entertaining poem about twelve of the Greek gods and their different antics along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 2 Reading Skills – The Birthday Present

This Year 2 Reading Skills - The Birthday Present resource contains an extract from a story about internet safety along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 1 Reading Skills – Midnight Journey

This Year 1 Reading Skills - Midnight Journey resource contains a poem about traveling by different forms of transport along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Faith in Fossils

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Faith in Fossils resource contains a narrative text detailing key events in the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries of dinosaur fossils along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – The Penicillin Diaries

This Year 6 Reading Skills - The Penicillin Diaries resource contains several extracts from the fictional diary of Alexander Fleming detailing the discovery and development of the first antibiotic medicines along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Legionary Life

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Legionary Life resource contains an extract from the diary of a Roman citizen at different stages of his training to be come a legionary, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – A Hammer for Thor

This Year 3 Reading Skills - A Hammer for Thor resource contains a narrative about the god Thor and his encounters with Loki and some hardworking dwarves, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 6 Reading Skills – Ella of the Tree

This Year 6 Reading Skills - Ella of the Tree resource contains a moving story about a girl and her family secretly living in a Swedish forest along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – A Nightly Battle

This Year 4 Reading Skills - A Nightly Battle resource contains an extract from the story of Shu and Tefnut as they try to save the sun god Ra from his nightly battle, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 2 Reading Skills – The Diary of Tim Berners-Lee

This Year 2 Reading Skills - Diary of Tim Berners-Lee resource contains an extract from the diary of Tim Berners-Lee reflecting on his invention of the World Wide Web along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 2 Reading Skills – A Perfect Gift

This Year 2 Reading Skills - A Perfect Gift resource contains a short poem about finding the perfect gift for a queen along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 2 Reading Skills – Castle Attack

This Year 2 Reading Skills - Diary of Mary Seacole resource contains an extract from the diary of Mary Seacole during the Crimean War along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 1 Reading Skills – Life of Lowry

This Year 1 Reading Skills - Life of Lowry resource contains a poem about the famous artist Lowry along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice.

Year 1 Reading Skills – Diary of Mary Anning

This Year 1 Reading Skills - Diary of Mary Anning resource contains extracts from Mary Anning's diary that discuss her discovery of fossils along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – The ‘Unsinkable’ Giant

This Year 4 Reading Skills - The 'Unsinkable' Giant resource contains an extract from a narrative recounting the days of the musician, Frederick, and his time aboard the 'Unsinkable' Titanic, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 5 Reading Skills – The Maid

This Year 5 Reading Skills - The Maid resource contains an extract from a fictional diary of one of Queen Victoria's maids in the year 1872 along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 2 Reading Skills – Diary of Mary Seacole

This Year 2 Reading Skills - Diary of Mary Seacole resource contains an extract from the diary of Mary Seacole during the Crimean War along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 1 Reading Skills – Dreamland

This Year 1 Reading Skills - Dreamland resource contains a short story about a young girl discovering a strange and mysterious world in her grandmother's attic along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – The Tragedy of Icarus

This Year 4 Reading Skills - The Tragedy of Icarus resource contains an extract from the diary of Daedalus recounting the events of the myth where he and his son, Icarus, escape from Crete along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – Time Crime

This Year 4 Reading Skills - Time Crime resource contains a newspaper article about the capture of a criminal who uses time-travel to steal from the Anglo-Saxons, Tudors and the year 2022 along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 1 Reading Skills – Diary of Queen Elizabeth I

This Year 1 Reading Skills - Diary of Queen Elizabeth I resource contains a short diary entry from Queen Elizabeth I about the day of her coronation along with a range of questions covering each content domain and some questions for more in-depth answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Scarlet Macaw

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Scarlet Macaw resource contains an entertaining poem about an indiscreet parrot that loves to spread gossip along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 5 Reading Skills – Trapped

This Year 5 Reading Skills - Trapped resource contains an extract from a story set during World War II about a Jewish mother and sons hiding from persecution in Nazi Germany while planning their escape to England along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 5 Reading Skills – Did You Say Six?

This Year 5 Reading Skills - Did You Say Six resource contains a short story about an interview with the ghost of King Henry VIII about his six wives along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.