Category: Reading Comprehension
Year Level: Year 3, Year 4
Stage: 2
Learning Area: Comprehension - Content Area Reading, Famous People, Writing Prompts
Resource Type: Worksheet
No. of pages: 6
Available in: English

Item Code: 105480
Themes: Famous People, War
Curriculum Codes: LA.3.ACELY1679, LA.3.ACELY1682

Soaring Women

Reading Comprehension

Detailed description

This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Soaring Women’, features two biographical texts, one about the American pilot Jacqueline Cochrane and the other about the American astronaut Sally Ride and the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tareshkova. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, comparison/contrast, and reasoning. The task also prompts students to write an imagined journal about being the first person to do something in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.

Keywords: aviation, compare and contrast, famous women, journals, space travel

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