Stone Age Boy

Stone Age Boy is a fun and imaginative story about a boy who accidentally falls into a hole and wakes up in the Stone Age! There, he meets a girl called Om and learns all about how people lived thousands of years ago. He helps her family hunt animals, gather food, make tools, cook over a fire, and create cave paintings. After an exciting adventure, he wakes up back in his own time — but he’s never sure if it really happened or if it was a dream.

We have created this comprehension resource to help reduce your workload this term when reading the Stone Age Boy book with your LKS2 class.

We have designed these questions to cater for a range of abilities in Year 3 and Year 4 and target a range of areas within the English curriculum. Perfect to support your planning this term linked to the Stone Age topic.

Our questions are varied in style and cover pictures and text linked to: retrieval, spelling, punctuation and grammar, inference, sequencing, vocabulary and more.

We have created 45 questions linked to the book but we have added a few non fiction texts at the end to gain some information about the Stone Age. Scroll through the pictures to have a quick peek at our questions.

How Did Stone Age People Live?
Stone Age people lived in caves or made shelters from sticks and animal skins. They were hunter-gatherers, so they moved around often to find food. They didn’t live in one place for long.
Where did Stone Age people live? → In caves or shelters made from natural materials.

What Did They Eat?
Stone Age people ate what they could find in nature. They hunted animals like deer, and gathered berries, nuts, and plants. Later in the Stone Age, they also grew crops and kept animals like sheep and cows.

What Tools Did They Use?
They made tools from stone, bone, and wood. Sharp stones were used as knives, and long sticks became spears for hunting. These tools helped them cut meat, dig, and build things.

Did They Make Art?
Yes! Stone Age people painted pictures on cave walls using natural colours made from crushed rocks and plants. They often drew animals and hunting scenes.

Why Was Fire Important?
Fire helped people stay warm, cook food, and keep wild animals away. Learning to make fire was a big step in helping people survive harsh weather.

Did They Have Pets?
Yes! Some people in the Stone Age tamed dogs. These dogs helped them hunt animals and guard their camps from danger.