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Our range of reading comprehension worksheets can help to develop your child’s knowledge and understanding of this crucial skill. English comprehension is something that your child will use throughout their whole life, both in school and in everyday life. All of our English worksheets have been developed in line with the National Curriculum to ensure that your child is learning everything they need to, either as a supplementary resource with their school education, or as an independent learning resource. Starting at Key Stage 1 and going all the way up to Key Stage 3, our online reading comprehension questions, activities, tests and other resources are perfect to take your child through the subject from its foundations to a more complex understanding.
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Read and Understand Rhyming Poems TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Use Phonemes to Read Simple Words TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Know How to Read and Spell Phonemes: ow TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Know How to Read and Spell Phonemes: ar TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Practise Reading and Spelling Phonemes: ear TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Recite a Poem: 'The Owl and the Pussycat' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Spell the Names of Colours Correctly TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand: 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand: 'The Fox and the Crow' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand: 'The Fox and the Goat' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand Stories from Other Cultures: 'The Merchants Purse' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand Stories From Other Cultures: 'Baboushka' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand Stories From Other Cultures: 'Baucis and Philemon' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand Traditional Stories: 'Dick Whittington' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand: 'The Emperors New Clothes' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand 'The Legend of Paul Bunyan' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read and Understand the 'Myth of Finn McCool' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read the Myth of Finn McCool TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on 'The Legend of Paul Bunyan' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Show Understanding of the Myth of Finn McCool TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Explore the Use of Language in the Poem Summer Images TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on an Extract From 'Midnight' by Jacqueline Wilson TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on an Extract From 'Owls in the Family' by Farley Mowat TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on the Dragons Attack from 'The Hobbit' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Understand Dickens' Intentions in His description of Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on a Fiction Text: Whale Adventure TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on a Poem: 'The Highwayman' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on a Poem: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Answer Questions on a Poem: Dulce Et Decorum Est TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Interpret the Second Half of a Poem : 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Analyse the Meaning of the Poem: 'Tich Miller' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Analyse a Non-Fiction Text: A Leaflet on Safety in the Home TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Analyse the Meaning of a Poem: 'Sonnet' by John Clare TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Analyse Poetry in Context: 'The Man He Killed' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Read Poetry to Analyse Meaning: 'The Song of the Old Mother' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Analyse the Meaning of the Poem: 'Tich Miller' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Compare Two Poems: 'London' and 'Londons Summer Morning' TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion in a Text: Food Banks TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Recognise Common Literary Devices: Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
Use Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor and Personification TRY WORKSHEET FOR FREE
We make learning as motivating as possible, with varied reading comprehension activities to make sure your child stays interested and solidifies their knowledge at the same time. By introducing new topics at a gradual pace, your child can learn about more challenging ideas without feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information. When used in combination with some of our other resources, including our grammar worksheets and adjective worksheets, your child can understand every aspect of English comprehension that they’ll use for years to come.
Key Stage 1 reading comprehension worksheets focus on the most basic aspects of comprehension and lay the foundation for more detailed understanding as your child progresses. Our year 1 reading comprehension worksheets tackle grapheme & phonological awareness, listening to and basic discussion of texts, and inferring meaning from simple texts. Moving into our year 2 reading comprehension worksheets, your child should start to be able to decode words and clarify meaning, as well as gain an understanding of sequence within texts.
Key Stage 2 reading comprehension worksheets should introduce a wider range of texts, and encourage a deeper level of inference surrounding texts and their meaning. This is the main focus of both our year 3 reading comprehension worksheets and year 4 reading comprehension worksheets, with students asked to discuss the meaning of both individual words and phrases as well as the text as a whole.
When you move on to year 5 reading comprehension worksheets and year 6 reading comprehension worksheets, your child should start to be able to identify more technical aspects of texts they read. Identifying overarching themes, being aware of the structure and purpose of a text and distinguishing facts from opinions in the texts they read is an important stepping stone to higher levels of English comprehension.
Moving onto Key Stage 3 reading comprehension worksheets introduces another level to the subject - making critical comparisons between different texts and having a closer awareness of the set, plot and characters feature quite heavily. Our year 7 reading comprehension worksheets encourage students to read an even wider range and type of texts, and our year 8 reading comprehension worksheets compound this by recapping on inferring meaning from these texts, and comparing them to each other. Year 9 reading comprehension worksheets solidify this knowledge with more examples to ensure readers can confidently and independently understand a variety of texts from different angles.
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