About this reading comprehension practice
Reading comprehension is taught in KS2 Year 4 (ages 8-9) as part of the England national curriculum. This free practice set covers short passages with questions about content and meaning through 30 interactive questions, working up from easy warm-ups to harder problems.
What you'll practise
Each session gives you 30 questions in mixed difficulty: a few simple ones to start, some two-step questions next, then word problems at the end. If you get stuck, tap for a hint. After every answer you get a short explanation, right or wrong, so you can see why.
Question types in this set: multiple choice, true or false, fill the blank, word matching, drag-to-order.
Example question
Read the passage: 'Otters are playful creatures that live near rivers. They use flat stones as tools to crack open shellfish. Baby otters cannot swim at first, so their mothers carry them on their bellies.' What do otters use stones for?
Curriculum coverage
This is on the KS2 English programme of study for Year 4. The questions follow the same order schools use, starting with concrete examples and moving on to more abstract reasoning, so practice here lines up with what your child is doing in lessons. British English throughout, with British units, currency and spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- What is reading comprehension in KS2 english?
- Short passages with questions about content and meaning. It is on the KS2 english curriculum for Year 4 and gets revisited in later years too.
- What year group is reading comprehension taught in?
- Reading comprehension is first introduced in Year 4. Children usually meet it again in later years as the work gets harder.
- Is the reading comprehension practice really free?
- Yes. All 30 questions are free, with no signup, no payment and no time limit. Your progress is saved in your browser.
- How does the practice work?
- Each session gives you 10 questions of mixed difficulty. Correct answers add 8 to 12 points to your SmartScore; wrong answers take some off. Get to 80 to mark the concept as complete. Hints are there if you need them, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Practice content matched to the England national curriculum for KS2 (Year 4). Questions use British English throughout.
Get a paper version of these questions with an answer key.