Year 1 Comprehensions : Old Testament Bible Stories

This resource contains five old testament bible story comprehensions. They are suitable for using with year 1 or lower ability year 2.

There are three differentiated levels. There is a colour and black & white version of each level.

Each level contains five short pieces of text with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures in the lower and middle levels to help children work out what they say.
Each passage is followed by 5 simple questions.

There are five different stories:

• The story of creation
• Adam and Eve
• Noah’s Ark
• Jonah and the Whale
• Joseph

These are all in PDF file format.

There is also a PowerPoint included in the pack containing a slide for each text from the middle ability so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them. This is not editable. Please click the ‘Read Only’ button in the centre of the screen to open it.

Answers are also included.

All of the documents are in the zip file.

No further preparation needed.