Support your Year 5 pupils as they prepare for the transition to Year 6 with this engaging Year 5 to Year 6 Reading Comprehension Worksheet. This colourful, curriculum-aligned printable resource helps children strengthen essential reading skills through a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts and comprehension activities.

Perfect for:

• End of Year 5 lessons
• Transition Day activities
• Summer holiday learning packs
• Guided reading
• Homework
• Morning work
• Intervention sessions
• Independent learning
• Home education

What’s included:

• Fiction reading extract
• Non-fiction reading text
• Vocabulary in Context
• Retrieval questions
• Inference and deduction
• Language and author’s choice
• Compare Texts activity
• Summarising task
• Challenge writing activity

This worksheet encourages pupils to develop higher-order reading skills by analysing texts, retrieving information, making inferences and explaining their thinking using evidence. It is designed to reinforce key Year 5 reading objectives while preparing children for the greater depth of reading expected in Year 6.

Perfect for:

• Year 5 teachers
• Year 6 teachers
• Parents and carers
• Tutors
• Home educators

Resource details:

• Printable PDF
• Full-colour A4 worksheet
• Child-friendly, engaging design
• Aligned with the English National Curriculum
• Suitable for classroom, intervention and home learning

Whether you’re planning Transition Day, guided reading lessons or summer holiday learning, this worksheet is an excellent resource for helping pupils improve reading fluency, comprehension and analytical skills before beginning Year 6.

Skills covered:

• Reading comprehension
• Retrieval
• Inference and deduction
• Vocabulary development
• Language analysis
• Comparing texts
• Summarising
• Critical thinking
• Evidence-based responses