Gothic Story Reading Comprehension
Year 6 gothic reading comprehension: The Whispering Manor passage with five questions on figurative language, inference, prediction and summarising.
Year 6 Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning across a range of increasingly challenging texts.
Year 6 English6 worksheets
Reading Comprehension worksheets to download
Summarising Key Ideas Mind Map
Year 6 summarising worksheet: The Blackout story with a five-branch mind map for main ideas and key details. Two pages, free to print.
Drawing Inferences from Classic Fiction
Year 6 classic fiction inference worksheet: Silas and Miss Agatha in the library, seven questions, an evidence table and a full answer key.
Word Meaning in Context: Poetry Focus
Year 6 poetry vocabulary worksheet with frames for imagery, metaphor, personification, connotation and symbolism, plus a worked example and answers.
Comparing Two Non-Fiction Texts
Year 6 non-fiction comparison worksheet: sort nine statements about two zoo texts into a Venn diagram. Fact, opinion and answer key included.
SATs-Style Reading Comprehension
Year 6 SATs-style reading paper: a fox story and an urban foxes report with 13 marked questions, including two that use both texts.
Curriculum objectives covered
Reading - comprehension
“Checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context”
Reading - comprehension
“Drawing inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence”
Reading - comprehension
“Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied”
Reading - comprehension
“Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas”
Reading - comprehension
“Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning”
Reading - comprehension
“Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader”
Reading - comprehension
“Provide reasoned justifications for their views.”
Reading - comprehension
“Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions”
Reading - comprehension
“Continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks”
Reading - comprehension
“Making comparisons within and across books”
Reading - comprehension
“Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion”
Reading - comprehension
“Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction”
Reading - comprehension
“Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes”
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Writing
Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs, sustaining ideas over longer pieces of writing.
SPaG
Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity, alongside the wider Year 6 punctuation and grammar expectations tested at the end of Key Stage 2.
Spelling
Using further prefixes and suffixes and understanding the guidance for adding them, drawing on the Year 5 and 6 spelling expectations.