Year 5 Reading Comprehension Mega Bundle

Year 5 reading comprehension bundle: 18 original texts with 270 multiple-choice questions, KS2 reading domains and full answer keys. No prep needed.

Year 5 Reading Comprehension Mega Bundle brings together 18 Word Harbour Reading packs (stories, descriptive writing, playscripts, poems and song lyrics, biographies, information texts, newspaper reports, persuasive writing, instructions) for Year 5 pupils. Each pack has an original text written for Year 5 readers and 15 multiple-choice questions that build from retrieval to inference and language.

Texts included:

• Stories: The Clockmaker’s Apprentice; The Message in the Bottle
• Descriptive writing: A Storm Over the Moors; Inside the Old Clock Tower
• Playscripts: Lost in the Museum; The Science Fair Disaster
• Poems and song lyrics: The Night Train; The Old Oak Remembers
• Biographies: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Great Engineer; Mary Seacole: Nurse and Adventurer
• Information texts: Our Solar System; Who Were the Vikings?
• Newspaper reports: Curtain Up! Town Saves Its Old Cinema; Pup Goes Home: Rescued Seal Returns to the Sea
• Persuasive writing: Every Child Should Learn to Cook; Keep Our Library Open
• Instructions: How to Build a Bug Hotel; How to Make a Lava Lamp in a Jar

Every pack contains (PDF):

• An original text with numbered paragraphs or lines and a word bank
• A pupil question sheet with 15 multiple-choice questions (A–E), with no answers showing
• A quick-mark answer grid, with every question tagged to its KS2 reading content domain (2a–2h)
• A full teacher answer key explaining why each answer is right and why every other option is wrong

Why this bundle? A whole year of varied reading practice in one place, covering every major text type in the KS2 curriculum. Buying the bundle costs much less than buying the packs one by one.

Ideal for: guided reading, whole-class reading lessons, reading assessment, homework, intervention groups, tutoring and cover lessons. British English throughout.

Written by Word Harbour Reading. Original texts, created for educational use.