Reading comprehension dragon stories

A selection of dragon stories for developing comprehension skills suitable for readers from Year 1 upwards.

Children should be reading at or above orange level book band to access these texts.

Each story is accompanied by a sheet of comprehension questions to develop your students understanding of the text.

These stories can be used for reading fluency/ words per minute assessments.

Included in this pack:
Reading fluency rubric for teachers
Reading assessment sheet
Reading fluency exercise table for students with ideas and suggestions on what they can do to improve their reading fluency, pacing, expression, and pauses at punctuations.
A sheet for illustrating the story after reading.

These stories can be used for guided reading sessions, tutoring sessions, independent work, and book clubs with a focus on developing reading speed, fluency accuracy and use of expressions.

21 different and original stories:
The dragon and the star - 169 words
The dragon’s treasure - 177 words
The dragon’s song - 153 words
The dragon’s secret - 147 words
The dragon and the moon - 150 words
The friendly dragon - 153 words
The lost dragon egg - 162 words
The dragon and the princess - 165 words
The dragon’s flight - 154 words
The dragon’s gift - 156 words
The brave little dragon - 141 words
The dragon feast - 140 words
The magic feather - 133 words
The dragon who loved flowers - 277 words
The dragon and the storm - 152 words
The dragon’s garden - 136 words
The dragon and the moonlight - 142 words
The dragon and the bear - 243 words
The lonely dragon - 219 words
The dragon and the lost star - 177 words
The dragons’ flight - 186 words