Looking for an easy to use Year 2 short story reading comprehension? Then this The Last Sword reading activity is for you.

This resource contains a short story about a group of pirates on a mission to find a hidden sword, and, alongside the short story, 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.