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Challenge your confident Year 4 readers with this advanced Pokémon-themed reading comprehension worksheet. Featuring an atmospheric and suspenseful short story, A Mysterious Encounter, the resource encourages deeper thinking and inference while developing descriptive writing skills.

What’s Included:

An original fiction passage set in a magical forest featuring Ash and Pikachu

8 comprehension questions that include vocabulary, inference, prediction, and explanation

A structured creative writing challenge (diary entry from Ash’s perspective)

A vocabulary scaffold to support descriptive writing

Answer key included for quick marking or peer assessment

Skills Developed:

Inference and deduction

Vocabulary building and context clues

Predictive reasoning and text-based interpretation

Creative writing using descriptive language

Empathy and perspective-taking through diary writing

Ideal for extending higher-attaining pupils or offering a differentiated comprehension task with a familiar, engaging theme. This task supports reading fluency, emotional literacy, and creative expression.