Resources and Worksheets

Year 3 Reading Skills – The Changing River

This Year 3 Reading Skills - The Changing River resource contains an illustrated poem describing a river and its surroundings as it changes through the seasons along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – 1066: The Newspapers

This Year 4 Reading Skills - 1066: The Newspapers resource contains two opposing newspaper articles about Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – What is a Volcano?

This Year 3 Reading Skills - What is a Volcano? resource contains an information text about the different types of volcanoes and how they are formed along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – A Happy Accident

This Year 3 Reading Skills - A Happy Accident resource provides a fictional narrative about the forming of the seasons by a group known as the Infinites along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Edith Cavell

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Edith Cavell resource provide a biography of the nurse Edith Cavell and her incredible role in World War 1 along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – How To Make a Flint Axe

This Year 3 Reading Skills - How To Make a Flint Axe resource provides instructions on how to create a Stone Age tool for farming along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Timmy the Time Traveller

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Timmy the Time Traveller resource contains a narrative about young Timmy who creates a time machine that takes him to Ancient Egypt, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Radiant Rainforests

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Radiant Rainforests resource contains an information text about rainforests and the different layers found with in them, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – The Vegetable Killer

This Year 4 Reading Skills - The Vegetable Killer resource contains a narrative about Dimitri and his attempts to remove vegetables from his farm, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – A Sloth’s Guide to the Amazon

This Year 4 Reading Skills - A Sloth's Guide to the Amazon resource contains an information text in the form of a survival guide for sloths in the Amazon, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – The Odyssey: A Long Way Home

This Year 4 Reading Skills - The Odyssey: A Long Way Home resource contains a poem recalling the life of Odysseus and his attempts to return home, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – The Story of Saint Patrick

This Year 4 Reading Skills - The Story of Saint Patrick resource contains a narrative about the story of Saint Patrick and how he came to Ireland along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – Invading Britannia

This Year 4 Reading Skills - Invading Britannia resource contains an extract from the diary of a Roman soldier as he and his legion prepare to invade Britannia, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – An Interview with Sophie Finch

This Year 4 Reading Skills - An Interview with Sophie Finch resource contains an interview of Sophie Finch, the recipient of the Inspirational Technician STEM award, as part of the Women in Science series along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Alice Ball’s Discovery

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Alice Ball's Discovery resource contains an extract from three diaries related to Alice Ball's discovery of a cure for leprosy, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – A Fair Cup

This Year 4 Reading Skills - A Fair Cup resource contains an information text about Fairtrade coffee and the supply chains that Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade farmers are part of, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Kindness Is Catching

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Kindness Is Catching resource contains a newspaper article about Random Acts of Kindness Day and the joy of helping others, along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 4 Reading Skills – Caroline Herschel

This Year 4 Reading Skills - Caroline Herschel resource is part of the Women in Science focus and contains a biography of the astronomer Caroline Herschel along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Year 3 Reading Skills – Buzzing Bees

This Year 3 Reading Skills - Buzzing Bees resource contains an information text about a few of the different species of bees found in the United Kingdom and their various similarities and differences along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

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 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 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 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.