Reading Comprehension Teaching Resources for Year 2
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What's Missing? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive presentation where students try to guess what object is missing from the picture.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
Use this editable PowerPoint template when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Comparing Texts on the Same Topic Worksheet
Explore the purpose of poem texts and report texts with clear guidance that helps students' interpretive skills.
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What Are Pollinators? Year 2 Comprehension Worksheet Pack
Introduce your students to the world of pollinators and nonfiction text comrpehension with a printable Year 2 Reading Comprehension worksheet pack.
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Author's Purpose Worksheet Set
Assess reading comprehension by using this comprehensive Author's Purpose Worksheet Set.
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Character Traits, Feelings and Appearance - Posters
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Recognising Cause And Effect
A set of comprehension task cards to help students recognise cause and effect when reading.
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Digital Fact or Opinion Game
Engage your class with this digital fact or opinion game where students move around the classroom to classify statements as facts or opinions.
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Making Predictions Reading Passages Task Cards
Explore the comprehension strategy of predicting using these making predictions reading passages task cards.
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Cause and Effect Matching Cards
Build comprehension skills with your students using this cause and effect matching activity.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Question Cards
Help students with six different comprehension skills with this set of super 6 comprehension task cards and mats.
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Inference Detectives Worksheet Pack
Guide your students to use personal experiences and text evidence to make inferences with this set of reading worksheets.
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Humpty Dumpty Off the Wall – Comprehension Worksheet
Integrate nursery rhymes and early reading comprehension skills with a Humpty Dumpty reading passage and comprehension questions.
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How Does Water Get to Our Taps? – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an information report from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Comprehension - Family Day At The Beach
A comprehension activity using a recount for lower grades.
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Book an Adventure Template - Brochure Book Review
Download a printable Book Week Template and create a fun book review travel brochure.
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Making Predictions Comprehension Strategy: Digital Task Cards
Enhance reading comprehension with these Making Predictions Comprehension Strategy Digital Task Cards, where students read short stories, predict what happens next, and justify their thinking using text evidence.
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Three Levels of Reading Posters
Teach your students to read beyond the lines, between the lines and on the lines with a set of printable 3 Levels of Reading posters.
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Beginning, Middle and End of Story Poster Set
Remind students of the elements that make up the beginning, middle and end of a story with this set of three posters.
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Story Elements Poster Set
Display these cute sloth-themed story elements posters when learning about narrative texts.
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Aiming For Inference Posters
Six mini posters showing different scenarios that can be used when encouraging students to use inference.
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Guided Reading Folder - Cover and Dividers
Use this collection of templates to organise your guided reading folder.
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The Escape Key - Story and Task Cards
An exciting short story about escaping a maze with a set of task cards to explore after the text has been read.
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Fiction and Nonfiction Visual Literacy Cards
Help students sharpen their ability to interpret, analyse, and think critically about images in texts with this engaging set of visual literacy cards.
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Character Emotions Chart and Worksheets
Explore character emotions in stories using this Character Emotions Chart and matching character Graphic Organisers
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Direct and Indirect Characterisation Anchor Chart
Reference a direct and indirect characterisation anchor chart to teach your students the difference between types of characterisation.
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Free Author’s Purpose Handout
Use this Author’s Purpose Handout in the form of a brochure to explore the different reasons authors write.
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Year Two Reading Comprehension Questions - Bloom's Taxonomy
Grow comprehension skills with our Year Two Reading Comprehension Bloom’s Taxonomy Task Cards.
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Super Stamina Reading Posters
Highlight strategies students can use to read for longer periods of time with this printable poster set for a school library or classroom.
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Making Inferences Worksheet Pack
Guide your students to read between the lines with this making inferences worksheet pack.
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Similes Poster (Early Years)
Show your students an example of a simile using this colourful classroom display poster.
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Book Review Chatterbox Template
Help your students review a book using this hands-on chatterbox.