Year 2 Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Set 1 | Australian Curriculum

Ten Year 2 reading comprehension passages with matching question pages, ready to print - each passage on one page with its questions to match, plus retell templates for oral and written retelling. A deliberate mix of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, including Australian topics, so students practise every text type they meet in Year 2.

• Four imaginative texts - Barry's Crazy Adventure, The Great Big Surprise, The Great Escape and The Very Greedy Elephant - characters, sequencing and inference
• Five informative texts - Dogs, Incredible Guinea Pigs, Australia, Earthquakes and The Great Barrier Reef - fact finding and literal comprehension, with Australian content built in
• One persuasive text - No School Fridays - opinions, arguments and evidence, always a class favourite
• Retell templates - sequencing and retelling scaffolds for oral and written retells of any passage
• Black and white printable, ink friendly, each activity its own file so you print exactly what you need

What exactly do I get?

A zip folder with ten comprehension activity files (passage plus questions), a retell templates file and a terms of use and credits page. Twelve files in total.

How do students check their work?

Questions are answered straight from the text, so they suit desk marking, peer checking and reading group discussion - no answer key to manage.

Which year levels is this suitable for?

Year 2 Australian classrooms, reading groups and intervention in later years. The resources were originally created under the US 2nd Grade label - the reading level is equivalent.

Is this aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9.0?

Yes. AC9E2LY05 covers using comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning - exactly what the question pages and retells practise.

How do I use these?

Reading groups, guided reading, homework, fast finishers, assessment snapshots, or laminate the retell templates for reuse all year.

All worksheets are original Mini Monsters artwork and layouts. The credits and terms of use page lists the clipart and font creators used in this product.