Year 6 Reading Comprehension Texts – 8 Texts

8 high-quality Year 6 reading comprehension texts with engaging fiction and non-fiction, carefully written questions and detailed mark schemes for regular reading practice.

Give Year 6 pupils a substantial bank of reading comprehension practice with this bundle of 8 carefully written texts and accompanying questions.

Designed specifically for Year 6, the collection provides regular opportunities for pupils to read unfamiliar texts, retrieve information, understand vocabulary, make inferences and explain their ideas using evidence.

The bundle combines Y6 Reading Comprehension Texts Packs 1 and 2, providing eight ready-to-use reading comprehension activities.

What’s included?
✔ 8 complete Year 6 reading comprehension texts
✔ A varied selection of fiction and non-fiction
✔ Carefully structured comprehension questions
✔ Retrieval and inference questions
✔ Vocabulary questions in context
✔ Sequencing and whole-text questions
✔ Detailed teacher mark schemes
✔ Separate text, question and answer materials
✔ Short, focused activities that can be completed in around 20 minutes

Ideal for Year 6
Use these reading comprehension texts throughout the school year for:
✔ Whole-class reading
✔ Guided reading
✔ Reading intervention
✔ Reading booster groups
✔ Independent comprehension practice
✔ Homework
✔ Early morning work
✔ Additional reading practice

With eight texts included, the bundle provides a useful bank of activities that can be returned to throughout the year.

Carefully written for Year 6 readers
The texts have been created with the reading demands of Year 6 in mind, including vocabulary, sentence structure, inference and understanding information that is not always stated explicitly.

The questions are deliberately varied, giving pupils opportunities to retrieve information, work out vocabulary in context, make inferences, connect ideas and support their answers with evidence from the text.

8 texts included
Pack 1
Text 1: Keeping the Lights On – Information text
Text 2: Fog Over Mistbay – Modern fiction
Text 3: Robinson Crusoe – Classic fiction extract
Text 4: Between Two Crowds – Poem

Pack 2
Text 5: The Old Photograph – Modern fiction
Text 6: The Fossil Hunter – Biography / non-fiction
Text 7: The Message – Historical fiction
Text 8: The Empty House – Modern fiction