If you're after a Year 1 Mary Anning reading comprehension diary, our Diary of Mary Anning reading activity could be ideal for you.

This resource contains extracts from Mary Anning's diary that discuss her discovery of fossils, and, alongside the poem, 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 1: Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher; discussing the significance of the title and events; making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done; and predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
• English Year 1: Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by being encouraged to link what they read or hear to their own experiences
• English Year 1: Explain clearly their understanding of what is read to them