This graphic organiser, ‘Fishbone Map’ combines brainstorming and mind mapping skills inside the skeleton of a fish to build an understanding of the relationship between the main idea and the supporting details. It creatively helps students to visualise all possible facets of a topic instead of simply focusing on the broad umbrella term. It can …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Florida Kids Crush Out Smoking’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about teen smoking.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Food for Thought’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about canteen food in schools.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘For One or More Players’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about games in the playground.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘For Sale: Stolen Rare Pets’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about animal smuggling.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Friendship among Enemies’, features a narrative about two sisters who do not get along. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about genre, setting, cause and effect, reasoning, making a judgment, and predicting outcome. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘From Thirteen to Fourteen’, features the fictional journal of a young seaman in 1772. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, fact/opinion, cause and effect, emotion/mood, vocabulary, and comparison/contrast. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Frozen in Time’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the Andes Mountains in Peru.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Future Science Today’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about how science fiction ideas can become a reality. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gail Devers: The World’s Fastest Woman’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about the famous American runner Gail Devers. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to form opinions and think about the author’s purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Get Set for Space’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about going into space.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Global Warming’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about how global warming is affecting the Earth.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Goal: Ending Child Labour’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about ending child labour.
This understanding text exemplar, ‘Going Beyond What You Read’ provides a model of a completed understanding text worksheet. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics, as well as making judgements and drawing conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gr-r-r-eat News About Tigers’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about the tigers in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gr-r-r-eat News About Tigers’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about tigers in Africa.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Ball of Fire!’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Sun and solar power.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Ball of Fire!’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about weather predictions and the Sun.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Great Minds Think Alike’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two best friends. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great Taste’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about taste buds. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to draw conclusions and make judgements.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Green Thumbs’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a neighbourhood project.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Hakeem Olajuwon’, features a biographical text about a famous basketball player who immigrated to the United States from Nigeria. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, drawing a conclusion, cause and effect, making a judgment, character, validity, and genre. Answer …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Happy Holidays!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the different holidays celebrated around the world.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hello! Anybody Out There?’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about aliens from outer space.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hello! Anybody Out There?’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about aliens in outer space.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Helpful Tips for Camping Trips’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about camping, preparation and safety. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at the language used in an informative text in order to ascertain the meaning and usage of individual words and …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Henry Bergh: Founder of the ASPCA’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about the founder of the American SPCA. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and form opinions.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘History in Houses’, features three everyday texts about a historic house: a real estate advertisement, a report about a council meeting, and a letter to the editor. The worksheet encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, making a judgment, …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Honour at Last’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Henry Flipper.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hooked on Harry’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Harry Potter books.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hot on Lewis and Clark’s Trail’, is available at two different reading levels to allow for differentiated instruction. It asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about two explorers who travelled across America.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hot on Lewis and Clark’s Trail’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about two explorers who travelled across America.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hotshot on a Skateboard’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a kid named Ryan Sheckler, who admired skateboard champion Tony Hawk.
This reading comprehension activity ‘How Vikings Lived’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the history of Vikings.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Innovators and Visionaries’, features two informational texts about pioneer inventors and innovative architects. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about cause and effect, comparison/contrast, hypotheticals, and pros and cons.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Into the Dark Unknown’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about caves.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Is It Spring Yet?’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informational text about Groundhog Day. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at words …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘It’s Outta There!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about baseball.
This reading comprehension activity ‘It’s Raining Monarchs’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about monarch butterflies.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘It’s Time to Pay the Price’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about teachers’ salaries.
This analysing text exemplar ‘Jack in the Department Store’ shows students how to identify the explicit and implicit meaning in a narrative text. It encourages students to ask questions to find the directly stated meaning of the story, then to find the deeper, not-directly stated meaning of the story.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Jeffrey’s New Beginning’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a boy named Jeffrey has to move away from his best friend Stacy. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information, make predictions and comparisons, form opinions and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘John Glenn’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about John Glenn, a man who travelled around the Earth in a spacecraft.
This analysing text worksheet ‘John James Audubon’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text the famous artist. It is aimed at encouraging students to draw conclusions about what they have read and to recall specific details from the text as well as form opinions about the text as a whole in …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘Keep the Grownups Out of It’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about student mediation in schools.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Keiko Goes Home’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Keiko, a famous whale kept in an aquarium.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Kid Power’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a hurricane that hit near Puerto Rico, and how kids in New Jersey raised money to help.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Lake Monsters’, features two editorials offering different opinions about legendary lake creatures. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about detail, reasoning, making a judgment, predicting outcome, and categorising.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Night Sky’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about people seeing a meteor storm.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Lipizzaner Horses’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text the history of this horse breed. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to make judgements and …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Living or Dead Opinion Organiser’ asks students to read the story Is He Living or Dead and decide whether Millet makes the right decisions, then write paragraphs to support their opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Long, Tall Dino’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about discovering a new dinosaur.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Lost among the Giants’, features a biographical text in journal form about Henry Knox and his role in the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about character, making a judgment, reasoning, detail, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet provided …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Lucianne’s Mind at Work’, features a narrative text about a girl who wants to improve the design of motor vehicles. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making an inference, classifying, mood/tone, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, reasoning, and making a judgment. …More
The reading comprehension activity, ‘Luke’s New Friend’ asks students to answer comprehension questions about a story in which a boy gets to know his grandpa better. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and the main idea.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Magic Show Memo’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative about a magic show. It is aimed at encouraging students to recall specific details from the text and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘Maths + Ads = Trouble’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about brand placement in school text books.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Modern Circus’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of the modern circus. It is aimed at encouraging students to identify specific details from the text and to make judgements about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘My Trip on a Plane’, asks students to answer comprehension questions about a girl’s trip on a plane by herself.
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