This is a really useful reading comprehension resource for chapter 15 of The Last Wild: an exciting and interesting narrative story by Piers Torday about a young boy living in a world with only a few remaining animals. You'll find a great range of questions grouped and targeted at each of the content domains including inference, effect of language, prediction and retrieval.

This Interesting Last Wild worksheet can be used individually, in groups or as a class and, where needed, content domains can be separated out and focused on, or all of the domains can be covered collectively. There is also a section containing questions that go into a little more in with prompts for more detailed written answers.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• English Year 5 & Year 6: Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Understand what they read by exploring the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identifying key details that support the main ideas; and identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.