5 free reading resources for Year 6, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn that a prefix is added to the start of a word to change its meaning (un-, re-, pre-, mis-, sub-, dis-) and a suffix is…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
Explains the three kinds of comprehension questions (literal, inferential and evaluative) and the strategies good readers use before,…
A passage with questions.
A news-style article about a primary school environment club cleaning up a local creek. Students locate facts and quotes, infer what…
An information text about Matariki, the star cluster whose rising in midwinter marks the Māori New Year and, since 2022, a public holiday…
An original poem about a cold southerly change sweeping over a city harbour. Students track how the weather changes from stanza to stanza…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.