If you're after a Year 2 short story reading comprehension, our Penny the Hedgehog reading activity could be ideal for you.

This resource contains a short story about a hedgehog's life in the garden through the different seasons, and, alongside the narrative, there is a variety of comprehension questions covering all five reading content domains. We've also included some more in-depth questions for more detailed written answers.

With our reading skills resources, you have the flexibility to decide how to use the text and the questions: you can give the whole text and all of the questions, target questions for specific domains, or go page by page using only questions that are related to that part of the text. We've also included a time-saving answer matrix to make marking easier and for making self or peer marking more accessible.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• English Year 3 & Year 4: Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
• English Year 3 & Year 4: Understand what they read by explaining the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; identifying main ideas and summarising these; and identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.