Help your Year 6 pupils feel calmer, more prepared and more confident about moving up to secondary school.

This transition-themed reading comprehension explores the real worries children often have, from getting lost and managing new routines to leaving friends behind and making new ones. Written in a clear, report-style format with subheadings, it gives pupils practical advice while also developing their reading skills.

Perfect for summer term transition work, PSHE links, whole-class discussion or independent comprehension practice.

Includes Year 6 SATs-style reading comprehension questions covering a wide range of National Curriculum reading skills, including:

• Retrieval of explicit information
• Vocabulary in context
• Word and phrase meaning
• Inference and deduction
• Author’s purpose and viewpoint
• Interpreting evidence from the text
• Summarising key ideas
• Sequencing events
• Matching information
• Classification and comparison tasks
• Understanding organisational features
• Identifying supporting evidence
• Whole-text understanding
• Explaining ideas using evidence from the text

Questions use a variety of authentic SATs formats, including multiple choice, find-and-copy, sequencing, matching, short-answer, evidence-based and extended response questions, closely modelled on recent KS2 SATs reading papers.