Save planning time with this Red Kayak comprehension resource, designed to support students as they read Priscilla Cummings’ powerful novel about friendship, responsibility, guilt, loyalty, honesty and the consequences of difficult choices.
This printable novel study PDF includes 100 reading comprehension questions across 10 reading sets, plus a full answer key. The questions are designed to check student understanding while also encouraging deeper thinking about Brady’s choices, the mystery surrounding the accident, and the moral conflicts that shape the story.
This resource is suitable for Year 5, Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8 students and works well for whole-class reading, guided reading, literature circles, independent tasks, homework or assessment check-ins.
What’s Included
- 10 reading sets
- 100 total comprehension questions
- Full answer key included
- Simple / recall questions
- Advanced / critical thinking questions
- Printable PDF format
- No-prep reading worksheets
- Suitable for classroom, small-group or independent use
Skills Covered
- Reading comprehension
- Retrieval and recall
- Inference
- Vocabulary in context
- Character analysis
- Theme analysis
- Text evidence
- Summarising
- Written responses
- Critical thinking
- Making connections
- Explaining character motivation
Perfect For
- Novel study lessons
- Guided reading groups
- Whole-class reading
- Literature circles
- Relief teacher / substitute lessons
Why Teachers Will Like This Resource
This Red Kayak novel study comprehension pack gives teachers a simple way to keep students accountable during reading without creating questions from scratch. The mix of recall and higher-order questions helps students follow the plot, understand character decisions, and think carefully about the bigger themes in the novel.
The resource is especially useful for building discussion around honesty, peer pressure, responsibility, friendship and consequences. It can be printed as a booklet, used one reading set at a time, assigned digitally, or used as evidence of reading comprehension during a class novel study.
