This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Benjamin Franklin’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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 history article ‘Irish Inventions’ features important factual background information about inventions made by Irish people during the 19th century that have shaped the way we live today. It highlights seismology, the modern stethoscope, colour photography and the successful launch of the submarine as key Irish inventions. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Louis Braille’, features a biographical text about the inventor of the Braille writing system. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about character, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, detail, making an inference, reasoning, presentation, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Two Inventors’, features two biographical texts about Alexander Bell, who invented the telephone, and Thomas Edison, who invented the electric light. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about reasoning, drawing a conclusion, detail, cause and effect, classifying, and comparison/contrast. Answer sheet …More
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