This analysing text worksheet ‘A Great Sea Rescue’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two ships that collided in New York Harbour. 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, …More
This reading comprehension activity ‘A Million Butterflies’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a Jewish boy, Pavel, who wrote a poem during the Holocaust.
The report, ‘America’s Wild Mustangs’ describes America’s wild mustang horses, explains where they came from, and describes efforts to preserve them. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘An Even Grander Old Flag’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on the history of the American anthem flag.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Arctic Quest’, features two texts about the polar explorers Matthew Henson and Robert Peary. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about drawing a conclusion, making an inference, character, detail, reasoning, and comparison/contrast.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Cause/Effect and Chain of Related Events,’ helps students understand how events are caused by other events. It provides a great visual for understanding historical events and how one causes another event, which causes another, which causes another, and so on.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Concept Wheel,’ helps students find the main idea and supporting details in a passage. The main idea goes in the centre of the wheel and the details that answer the questions radiate from the main idea like spokes on a wheel.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Gipsy Moth IV’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Francis Chichester’s circumnavigation of the globe. 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
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 analysing text worksheet ‘How Chewing Gum Was Developed’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this invention. 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 at words …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question of the Week,’ helps students strengthen their reading skills. It is aimed at helping to create a classroom environment of curiosity and inquiry.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Sir Francis Chichester’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the famous sailor and aviator. 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 …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Storyboarding,’ helps students visualise a sequence of steps or events. It has students read a text and illustrate through symbols and simple illustrations the sequence or steps in the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Text Patterns and Signal Words,’ helps students identify the structure of a nonfiction text. It teaches them about the four main types of text patterns: describing, cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast and chronological.
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