This is a non-fiction reading comprehension that I gave my year 6 class for homework based on the famous, record-breaking singer Beyoncé. It inludes the text, questions and answers. The comprehension has 9 questions that are suitable for your LA, MA and HA children. The questions involve a mixture of skills such as retrieval, inference, explanation and vocabulary skills. I have included the answers at the end of the Word document.

Lesson 1 is simplifying fractions which is important when converting 60% to 60/100 to 3/5. Lesson 2 is converting fractions into percentages -obviously they need to memorise these eventually. Lesson 3 focuses on converting decimals to percentages by multiplying and dividing by 100. It also includes converting these into fractions too. Lesson 4 is a revision lesson on all these skills because my class needed one more lesson on FDP equivalents. In all these lessons, there are opportunities for teacher modelling, differentiated practice questions, a printable differentiated worksheet for independent work and the answers to save valuable teacher time. I usually display the challenge question with the Learning Objective while they’re doing their independent work so they can have a challenge when they’ve finished. Some of the lessons have further challenge questions to stick into the books.

Here are 15 reading comprehensions that I gave my year 6 class for their Autumn Term homework. I chose these books because they are in our reading corner and I wanted to encourage the children to read them by giving them a little taster. The Reading Comprehensions are about or the books are: ‘The Explorer’ by KatherineRundell (3 of them ) ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo (2 of them ) ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hogson Burnett ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ by Judith Kerr ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness. The Importance of Reading (to encourage them to read!) Malala Yousafzai life story Marcus Rashford life story Beyonce life story Emma Raducanu life story The reading comprehensions are mostly suited for MAs and HAs but could definitely be given to some of your higher LAs. The style of questions involve a range of skills that come up in SATs papers and I have also included the answers at the bottom of each document to make it quicker to mark.