This reading comprehension activity ‘Brand-name Schools’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about brand name products in schools.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Commercial Artists’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This kids news activity, ‘Different Toys For Girls And Boys?’ reports on gender stereotyping in the marketing of toys.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Brand New Excelsior’, features an advertisement for a futuristic motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, detail, author’s purpose, genre, and categorising. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This content area reading activity, ‘Toy and Nature Catalogue’ is a maths based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to recognise and use figures of speech.