Y5 Reading Comprehension: Moor Storm

Year 5 reading comprehension: an original descriptive text with 15 multiple-choice questions, KS2 reading domains and a full answer key. No prep needed.

A Storm Over the Moors – A still summer afternoon on the moor slowly darkens as a storm gathers, breaks with thunder and lightning, and finally rolls away, leaving the heather glittering under a rainbow. A powerful descriptive text full of metaphor, personification, similes and alliteration.

What’s included (12-page PDF):

• Original descriptive text (723 words) with numbered paragraphs, written for Year 5 readers
• Word bank of useful vocabulary
• Pupil question sheet: 15 multiple-choice questions (A–E), with no answers showing
• Quick-mark answer grid with every question tagged to its KS2 reading content domain (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2f, 2g, 2h)
• Full teacher answer key explaining why each answer is right and why every other option is wrong

Skills covered:

• Retrieval
• Vocabulary in context
• Inference from clues in the description
• Summarising a paragraph
• Metaphor, simile, personification and alliteration
• Comparing the start and end of the text
• How a descriptive text is structured

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

Questions build from straightforward retrieval to inference and language, so the pack works for a range of readers. British English throughout.

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