This reading comprehension activity, ‘Carlos and Jenny Part IV’ asks students to answer questions about a story of a bat that helps two lost children find their way out of a cave. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Cats’ asks students to answer questions about different cat breeds. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Caves’ asks students to answer questions about different kinds of caves. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Censorship in Music’ asks students to answer questions about how censorship violates the rights of citizens and artists. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Cesar Chavez’ asks students to answer questions about a man who fought to improve the conditions of migrant workers. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Chameleon from How to Know the Wild Animals’ asks students to answer questions about Carolyn Wells’ poem about the chameleon. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Chicken Feathers’ asks students to answer questions about an American chemist, Walter Schmidt, who found ways to make leftover chicken feathers into products such as fibreglass canoes! It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Chief Joseph’ asks students to answer questions about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Native Americans. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Child Safety Seats’ asks students to answer questions about safety seats for children. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Chipmunk and Bear’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American tale about a chipmunk and a bear. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and make comparisons.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Clown in Town’ asks students to answer questions about a short poem, which is about a clown and his pet giraffe. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the poem.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Communication’ asks students to answer questions about different ways of communicating. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Composting’ asks students to answer questions about how to build a compost pile. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Confessions of a Year Six Bully’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Constellations’ asks students to answer questions about constellations, or groups of stars that make pictures in the sky. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘David Meets His Cousins’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a boy goes to stay with his cousins for the summer. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Day Trip’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a family spending the day at the beach. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Delaware Water Gap’ asks students to answer questions about the different animals found throughout the Delaware Water Gap in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Desert Bighorn Sheep’ asks students to answer questions about desert bighorn sheep, which live in Arizona in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dinosaur Days’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dogs’ asks students to answer questions about different dog breeds. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Dogs Don’t Dance’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context. It also encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Downtown’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a girl and her mother who go for a walk. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dr Smithers in the Basement’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a man sneaks into Dr Smithers’ basement to find out what he does down there. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, draw conclusions and think …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Dream Days’ asks students to answer questions about a story by Kenneth Grahame. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Early American Artists’ asks students to answer questions about different American artists. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Earth’s Water’ asks students to answer questions about the water on and in Earth. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Earthquakes’ asks students to answer questions about earthquakes and the San Andreas fault zone. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Echo’ asks students to answer questions about a story of Mother Bat and her baby. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Echo’ asks students to answer questions about a story of a young bat and his mother. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Echo and Narcissus’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which Echo and Narcissus both die of grief. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Edward the Brave’ asks students to answer questions about Edward Kennedy, Jr, who overcame childhood cancer. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Erin Raises Chickens’ asks students to answer questions about a girl named Erin who raises and shows chickens. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Family Misfit’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, summarise, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Family Time’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a family and the time they spend together in the evenings. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘First Things First’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about what a girl does after she wakes up and starts to get ready. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Flower’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a boy who picked a flower for his teacher. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Food We Eat’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about mealtimes and food. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Foods I Eat Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that show different foods. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Foods I Eat Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that show different foods. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘For Sale’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a boy who buys a camera and takes photographs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Forests’ asks students to answer questions about forests and forest fires. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Four Poems’ asks students to answer questions about four famous nursery rhymes. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Four Poems’ asks students to answer questions about four poems by Edward Lear. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘French Toast’ asks students to answer questions about how to make French toast. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Friends’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a young girl befriends an old woman next door. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Frogs’ asks students to answer questions about frogs and tadpoles. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context. It also encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Future Scientist’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, think about cause and effect and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Get Up and Bar the Door’ asks students to answer questions about a poem, which is about a stubborn husband and wife who get robbed. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Gift of an Apple Tree’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which a king makes an old farmer give him his beautiful apple tree. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!’ asks students to answer questions about a speech by Patrick Henry. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Glass Blowing’ asks students to answer questions about the process of glass blowing. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Going Places Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to travel and transport. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Going Places Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that relate to travel and transport. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a sentence describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Going Sailing’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a man and a woman who go sailing on a lake. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Going Underground’ asks students to answer questions about Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Great American Buffalo’ asks students to answer questions about bison. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Harriet Beecher Stowe’ asks students to answer questions about Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make judgements, form opinions and think about personification as well as author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Harry and His Dog’ asks students to answer questions about a story of a faithful dog. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Heidi’ asks students to answer questions about a story of a young Swiss girl who lives with her grandfather. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
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