Year 6 Reading SATs Practice Paper - 3 Texts, 50 Marks, Mark Scheme

A full Year 6 reading SATs practice paper: a reading booklet with three original texts, an answer booklet with 39 questions worth 50 marks, and a detailed mark scheme.

What’s inside (18 pages)

• Reading booklet with three original texts that increase in challenge:
  1. The Iron Wolf: a mystery story about a girl who finds a clockwork wolf in an abandoned foundry
  2. Kings of the Coldest Place on Earth: an information text about emperor penguins
  3. The Girl Who Found Dragons: a biography of the fossil hunter Mary Anning
• Answer booklet: 39 questions worth 50 marks, in KS2 reading test styles (retrieval, find and copy, tick one, true or false, ordering, and 2 and 3-mark explain questions)
• Every question labelled by reading skill: retrieve, vocabulary, infer, predict, explain, summarise
• Mark scheme with model answers and guidance for 2 and 3-mark questions
• Reading skills tracker and teacher notes on running it as a mock

Ways to use it

A mock reading test (60 minutes), a practice paper split across lessons, homework or a baseline before reading intervention.

Printable A4 PDF. All texts are original. This is an independent practice resource and is not produced by the Standards and Testing Agency.