Support children’s reading development with our wide range of reading comprehension resources, designed to enhance understanding across fiction and non-fiction texts. Covering a variety of genres and topics, our reading comprehensions help pupils build inference, deduction, and retrieval skills.
Our KS1 and KS2 reading comprehension activities can be used in multiple ways—whether as part of your English lessons, guided reading sessions, or independent practice. They are also excellent preparation for KS1 and KS2 SATs, providing breadth and experience with different question types. Explore reading comprehension topics including:
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Finding age-appropriate reading comprehension resources for younger learners can be challenging. Our phonics-based reading comprehension activities for EYFS and Year 1 cover Phases 2 to 5, supporting prosody, fluency, and automaticity while developing comprehension skills. These are ideal for guided reading, intervention groups, or phonics teaching sessions, ensuring pupils gain confidence with early reading.
Exposing children to a variety of texts improves their inference and deduction skills, broadens their vocabulary, and encourages them to engage with different genres and writing styles.
Some pupils may struggle with or feel disengaged from traditional reading tasks, but we’ve designed our reading comprehension resources for reluctant readers to spark their interest. We include fun and unusual topics, such as our axolotl reading comprehension and unicorn reading comprehension, which have been co-authored with children who understand what truly captures young minds.
Children learn best when content is contextualised and connected to topics they are already exploring in the curriculum. Linking reading comprehension activities to topics strengthens subject knowledge while supporting literacy skills. Try our Great Fire of London reading comprehension for a cross-curricular approach that integrates history and English learning.
