KS1 English Questions

Reading

KS1 English focuses heavily on decoding and early reading comprehension:

• Applying phonics knowledge (Phase 3-5) to read unfamiliar words
• Reading common exception words by sight
• Understanding texts by answering simple literal and inferential questions
• Reading aloud with appropriate pace and expression

Writing

Children begin to compose sentences and short texts with increasing independence:

• Writing simple sentences using full stops, capital letters and question marks
• Using adjectives, conjunctions (and, but, so, because) and adverbs
• Composing and sequencing sentences to form short narratives
• Correctly forming lower-case and capital letters

Phonics, Spelling & Grammar

Systematic phonics teaching is central to KS1 and culminates in the Phonics Screening Check:

• Applying all Phase 5 grapheme-phoneme correspondences consistently
• Spelling common exception words from the Year 1 and Year 2 word lists
• Understanding word classes: nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Using apostrophes for omission and the basic rules of sentence demarcation

YearWise generates a varied set of curriculum-aligned questions every time — so your child has fresh material to practise. Sessions are short (10–30 questions), focused and available on any device. No account needed to get started.