Florence Nightingale KS1 Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Worksheets Pack

This reading comprehension for Years 1 and 2 focuses on the life and work of Florence Nightingale, and her impact on nursing and hospitals – building children’s skills of recall and inference, and enhancing their vocabulary.

This primary resource includes

• 7-page Florence Nightingale reading comprehension worksheet
• Answer sheet

National Curriculum English Programme of Study links

Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to by: 

• Drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
• Checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading
• Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
• Predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
• Answering and asking questions 
• Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves.

Why not use this resource as the inspiration for a diary writing unit?

This resource is part of the Reading Comprehension collection.
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• Reading sheet with questions
• Answer sheet