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.

KS2 Diwali: Story of Rama and Sita Resource Pack

This KS2 Diwali: Story of Rama and Sita Resource Pack resource pack gives children the opportunity to read, answer questions and sequence the story of Rama and Sita.

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 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 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 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 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 – Through Each Window

This Year 5 Reading Skills - Through Each Window resource contains a poem about the adventures of Midge the cat as he looks in on his neighbours at Christmas.

Year 5 Reading Skills – An Astronaut’s Diary

This Year 5 Reading Skills - An Astronaut's Diary resource contains an exciting extract from the diary of an astronaut on her first visit to space.

Year 5 Reading Skills – Daughter of the Sun

This Year 5 Reading Skills - Daughter of the Sun resource contains an extract from a moving tale of a mother and her young daughter who is blessed with the power of the sun along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.

Free UKS2 Non-Text Reading Skills Activity

This prototype Year 5/6 non-text reading resource has an image followed by questions grouped by reading skill. This resource is designed to be a short independent task, early morning task or a starter activity.

Free Year 6 Prediction Reading Activity

his Year 6 Reading activity includes a short text with follow up questions to practise prediction.

Free Year 6 Reading for Inference Activity

This Year 6 Reading activity includes a short text with follow up questions to practise inference.

Free Year 6 Choose Your Own Story Reading Activity

This Year 6 Create Your Own Story activity. designed with holistic development in mind is intended to help children by giving them the opportunity to take ownership of and engage with their reading.

Year 5 and Year 6 After the War Free Extract Activity for Writing

After the War Extract Activity for Writing. Read the chapter one extract by Tom Palmer and then summarise the chapter in seventy-five words.

Heavenly Hot Cross Buns Year 4 Easter Guided Reading Carousel Comprehension

Heavenly Hot Cross Buns Year 4 Easter Guided Reading in the form of a recipe for hot cross buns in a cooking magazine with teacher questions, a follow-up comprehension, two related vocabulary worksheets and a spelling, grammar and punctuation activity.