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How Are Fossils Made? | Reading Comprehension | Year 3/4

How Are Fossils Made? | Reading Comprehension | Year 3/4

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Unit of work

Last updated

28 July 2026

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Explore How Fossils Are Made with this Time-Travel Reading Pack! Take your class on a journey through time with this fascinating reading pack all about fossils! From buried bones to ancient footprints, pupils will discover how living things become fossils and what they can teach us about the past.

Perfect Year 3/4, this engaging and educational pack is filled with activities designed to strengthen reading comprehension, build vocabulary, and develop retrieval and inference skills.

This versatile resource is ideal for whole-class lessons, small groups, or independent activities. Use it for warm-ups, guided reading, homework, interventions or assessments. Whether you’re focusing on fluency, retrieval, or inference, this pack has everything you need to support your teaching goals.

What’s Included:

  • 2 Pages of Text (Dyslexia-friendly font)
  • 2 Pages of Reading Comprehension Questions
  • “Just Tick It” Adaptive Reading Task – perfect for emerging or reluctant readers
  • Extension Activities for winter science, instruction writing, and creative design
  • 5-Lesson Teaching Presentation (40+ slides, structured and easy-to-teach)
  • An additional 3 Worksheets to support teaching and learning
  • Now includes “Mixed Up!” – gives teachers extra flexibility (e.g. assessment, variety, reusability)
  • 5-Day Lesson Plan with pedagogy notes and teaching strategies
  • Audio Support of the text (ideal for EAL/SEND/ESL learners)
  • Answer Keys for all questions and tasks
  • Assessment Tracker to monitor reading objectives and progress

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Free Supporting Video
A short, child-friendly video is available to support this lesson and reinforce key ideas. Bitesize Education on YouTube

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**Explore the World Through Words: Engaging Science Based Reading Packs for Curious Learners** This exciting series of reading packs is designed to bring the wonders of the world to life through clear, engaging, and age-appropriate texts. Perfect for use in Year 3 and 4 classrooms, each pack introduces pupils to fascinating scientific and cross-curricular topics through rich, informative reading passages that build vocabulary, spark curiosity, and support comprehension skills. Topics include: * The Human Skeleton – Discover how bones support and protect us. * Nutrition – Learn what humans and animals need to stay healthy. * Types of Rocks – Uncover the three main rock types and how they form. * How Soil is Made – Explore the layers beneath our feet. * How Fossils Are Made – Step back in time with ancient remains. * How Light is Reflected – Understand how mirrors and shiny objects work. * How Shadows Are Formed – Learn how objects block light to create shadows. * Forces: Pushes and Pulls – Dive into the everyday science of movement. * Understanding Magnets – Explore attraction, repulsion, and magnetic fields. * The Life Cycle of a Plant – Follow a plant's journey from seed to flower.**

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Make your fossils unit more engaging with this cross-curricular Science + ELA bundle packed with reading, writing, vocabulary, comprehension, and hands-on learning activities. This Fossils Mega Bundle helps children build scientific knowledge while also developing key literacy skills through meaningful topic-based tasks. Perfect for Year 3&4, this resource is designed to support reading comprehension, nonfiction reading, explanation writing, vocabulary development, discussion, and independent learning. Children can explore what fossils are, how fossils are formed, what they tell us about the past, and why fossils are important to scientists. At the same time, they will strengthen their ELA skills through reading, responding to texts, recording ideas, and completing engaging follow-up activities. This fossils bundle is ideal for science lessons, ELA integration, morning work, small groups, independent practice, whole-class teaching, early finishers, homework, and extension tasks. It is a great way to bring together science content and literacy learning in one easy-to-use resource. Teachers will love the strong Science + ELA focus, the variety of learning opportunities, and the flexible ways the materials can be used across a fossils topic. Students will love the mix of reading, writing, discussion, and creative activities that help bring prehistoric learning to life. This bundle combines your Reading & Writing pack, Learning Journal, Bulletin Board Pack, and Puzzles & Posters into one topic-based resource set for Year 3&4. * The reading and writing materials include differentiated questions and answers, teacher presentations, printable worksheets, lesson plans, model texts, and assessment support. * The learning journal adds printable templates, sentence starters, thinking prompts, assembly slides, a reading text, listening comprehension, an explainer video, and teacher guidance. * The bulletin board pack includes banners, borders, posters, vocabulary, definitions, a fact file, research sheets, learning objectives, and question prompts. * The puzzles and posters pack adds a word search, crossword, coloring pages, display posters, and answer keys. * Click on the preview or files to find out more about the resources. * Free Supporting Video A short, child-friendly video is available to support this lesson and reinforce key ideas. Bitesize Education on YouTube If you have questions, do not hesitate to email me at: bitesizeeducation01@gmail.com Thank you for visiting The Bitesize Education Shop – I would love for you to become a follower. Followers receive new product alerts and discounts on new releases!

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