Help your Year 2 pupils strengthen their reading skills and prepare for a confident start to Year 3 with this engaging Year 2 to Year 3 Reading Comprehension Transition Worksheet.

This colourful, child-friendly resource includes a variety of short texts and activities designed to develop essential comprehension skills while supporting the important transition from KS1 into KS2.

Perfect for:

• End of Year 2 revision
• Year 2 to Year 3 transition activities
• KS1 to KS2 transition
• Transition Day
• Summer holiday learning packs
• Guided reading
• Homework and morning work
• Intervention sessions
• Independent learning
• Home education

What’s included:

• Fiction reading
• Non-fiction reading
• Retrieval questions
• Inference activities
• Vocabulary in context
• Finding and using evidence
• Prediction
• Author’s choice

Pupils will read a selection of engaging short texts, including stories and non-fiction passages, before answering a range of comprehension questions. Activities encourage children to retrieve information, make simple inferences, explore vocabulary, use evidence and make predictions.

Reading activities include:

• The Lost Puppy – fiction comprehension
• Penguins – non-fiction comprehension
• The Picnic – retrieval practice
• The Storm – inference
• Vocabulary in context
• Finding and using evidence
• Predicting what might happen next
• Exploring an author’s word choices

Resource details:

• Printable PDF
• Full-colour worksheet
• Child-friendly, engaging design
• Fiction and non-fiction texts
• Covers a range of key reading skills
• Supports the transition from KS1 to KS2
• Suitable for classroom and home learning

Whether you’re planning end-of-year revision, preparing a Transition Day activity or creating a summer holiday learning pack, this worksheet provides an engaging way to develop reading comprehension and help pupils begin Year 3 feeling confident and prepared.

Skills covered:

• Reading comprehension
• Retrieval
• Inference
• Vocabulary
• Using evidence
• Prediction
• Author’s choice
• Fiction and non-fiction reading