This non-fiction comprehension pack is a report on winter sports that are included in the Winter Olympic Games, including bobsleigh, alpine skiing, curling, ice hockey and skating.
The pack includes a model text and comprehension questions to develop pupils’ skills of retrieval, inference and understanding vocabulary and could be used as part of a whole class reading lesson or used with smaller guided groups.
The non-fiction text could also be used as a model for pupils to base similar writing upon.
When are the next Winter Olympics?
The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, between 6th and 22nd February 2026. The 2030 Winter Olympics will be hosted by France and the 2034 Winter Olympics will be hosted in Utah, USA.
Winter Olympics pack contents
- Model text: The Winter Olympic Games
- Comprehension questions about the text
- Comprehension questions answer sheet
National Curriculum English programme of study links
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading by reading and discussing an increasingly wide range of non-fiction.
- Check the text makes sense, discuss pupils' understanding and explore the meaning of words in context.
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justify these with evidence.
- Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.
Download a whole-school writing activities pack about the Winter Olympics.