This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Best Friend’, features an informational and narrative text about the bond between dogs and humans. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, cause and effect, and theme. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This history comic strip, ‘Comic Adventures…in Calling the Past: Michael the Slave’ features a boy who is transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and becomes a slave. It provides factual information about Ancient Egypt and the building of the pyramids and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and …More
This history article, ‘Egyptian God’ features the Egyptian God Anubis, the god of the dead. It provides factual information about this significant figure from Egyptian mythology and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article ‘Egyptian Tomb’ features important factual background information about the objects that were often buried with an important person in ancient Egypt. It describes the mummies, amulets and canopic jars that were typically discovered in Egyptian tombs by archaeologists such as Howard Carter. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness …More
This history article, ‘Gold: How One Metal Shaped the World’ provides information about gold and the effect it has had on the world throughout history. It is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness in a fun and engaging manner.
This history article, ‘Hatshepsut’ features the famous female King of Egypt, Hatshepsut. It provides factual information about Hatshepsut’s life and how she became King and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This history article, ‘The Curse of a Child King…’ features the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb and explores the theory that it was cursed. It provides factual background information about King Tut’s tomb and its discovery, a fun joke and a ‘Make a Tutankhamen Mask’ activity. It has a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Rosetta Stone’, features an informational text about Young and Champollion deciphering the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, word origin, parts of speech, meaning, detail, words in context, drawing a conclusion, importance, making …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Under the Desert Sands’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Egyptian archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass. 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, to look critically …More
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