Year 4 Fiction Reading Comprehension Worksheets (with KS2 content domain coverage sheet): Marcus’ Misfortune

Support the development of key reading skills with this Year 4 fiction comprehension pack, Marcus’ Misfortune. This resource includes a model text and a full set of comprehension questions designed to address the Key Stage 2 reading content domains, helping pupils to build confidence and accuracy when responding to texts.

The comprehension questions are carefully structured to assess a range of reading skills, including:

• 2a: Giving and explaining the meaning of words in context
• 2b: Retrieving and recording information from fiction
• 2c: Summarising main ideas from more than one paragraph
• 2d: Making inferences and justifying them with evidence from the text
• 2e: Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
• 2f–2g: Exploring how narrative content and language choices contribute to meaning

This resource aligns with the KS2 Reading Test Framework, making it ideal for formative assessment.

What’s included

• The complete model text: Marcus’ Misfortune
• A full set of comprehension questions with mark allocations and content domain coverage chart
• Suitable for Year 4 pupils and adaptable for lower KS2

Curriculum links

• Reading – Comprehension (National Curriculum for English, KS2)
• Developing fluency, inference, vocabulary, and comprehension skills through structured question types

This resource is part of the Reading Comprehension collection.
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• Text: Marcus's Misfortune
• Comprehension questions about the text
• Comprehension question answer sheet
• Content domain coverage sheet