This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hiawatha’s Childhood’ asks students to answer questions about the legendary Native American. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about similes.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Hot Pot’ asks students to answer questions about a short poem, which is about a woman and her big, black pot. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from a poem.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘How Can I Help My Child Eat Better?’ asks students to answer questions about food and nutrition. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘How Coyote Got His Special Power’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American tale about Coyote. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘How Do They Do It?’ asks students to answer questions about people who lose weight and keep it off. 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 exemplar, ‘How to Make a Pinhole Camera’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘How Will Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Help Me?’ asks students to answer questions about how to eat healthily and get exercise. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘I Spy Something Red’ 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 and think about word and phrase meanings as well as author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘I Travelled Among Unknown Men’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by William Wordsworth. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘In the Desert’ asks students to answer questions about different kinds of deserts. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Is This Something to Eat?’ asks students to answer questions about an entomologist who, along with other entomologists, eats insects in Thailand. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘It’s All in the Trunk’ asks students to answer questions about how the elephant uses its trunk. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Jackie Cochran’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘James Blake’ asks students to answer questions about James Blake, a well-known American tennis player. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘James P. Beckwourth, Mountain Man’ asks students to answer questions about a famous African American mountain man. 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, ‘Jan’s Birthday Party’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which the characters make costumes for Jan’s birthday party. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Jeannette and Jo’ asks students to answer questions about a poem in which one character worries. 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, ‘Jelly’ asks students to answer questions about this popular food made of gelatine. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Jenny Wren Arrives’ asks students to answer questions about a tale of Jenny Wren and Peter Rabbit. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings and rhyming word families.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Jumbo’ asks students to answer questions about a famous elephant named Jumbo. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Keep Your Food Safe’ asks students to answer questions about ways to keep food safe. 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, ‘Kevin’ asks students to answer questions about a story about a boy named Kevin and a group of students. 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, ‘Killer Whale’ asks students to answer questions about killer whales. 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, ‘Kittens’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about what kittens like. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Kristine Lilly’ asks students to answer questions about a famous American soccer player. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make judgements, form opinions and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Lady Judge’ asks students to answer questions about a famous American female judge named Sandra Day O’Connor. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Ladybird Law’ asks students to answer questions about a true story in which some American children manage to get a law passed. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Laser Eye Surgery’ asks students to answer questions about an eye surgery procedure that helps correct some eye defects. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Likes and Dislikes’ asks students to answer questions about a short poem, which is about the likes and dislikes of kids. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the poem.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Little Bo-Peep’ asks students to answer questions about the famous nursery rhyme. 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, ‘Little Boy Blue’ asks students to answer questions about Eugene Field’s famous poem. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Little Miss Muffet’ asks students to answer questions about the famous poem. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Little Women’ asks students to answer questions about a story about the lives of four sisters. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information think about word and phrase meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Lizzy’ asks students to answer questions about a boy who wanted a pet of his own. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall information and think about word meaning.
This reading comprehension exemplar, ‘Louis Armstrong’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Madame C.J. Walker’ asks students to answer questions about a hardworking, driven African American woman who built up a thriving business. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Make a Collage’ asks students to answer questions about how to make a collage. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Make the Most Out of Your Whale-Watching Experience’ asks students to answer questions about going whale-watching. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings and author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Banana Bread’ asks students to answer questions about a recipe. 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 from the recipe.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Poems Part I’ asks students to fill in the missing rhyming words in poems. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of words that end with the same sound.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Poems Part II’ asks students to fill in the missing rhyming words in poems. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of words that end with the same sound.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Vegetable Soup’ asks students to answer questions about vegetable soup and a recipe for soup. 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, ‘Maria DeCastro Blake’ asks students to answer questions about a woman who spent her life helping others. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘McTeague: A Story of San Francisco’ asks students to answer questions about an excerpt from a story about McTeague, a dentist from San Francisco. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Meddlesome Mattie’ asks students to answer questions about a poem about a curious girl named Matilda. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Mending Wall’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by Robert Frost, an American poet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about figurative language.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Midas’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which everything turns to gold when King Midas touches it. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Midas’s Secret’ asks students to answer questions about a tale in which the foolish King Midas shares a secret with his barber. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Miss Lulu Bett’ asks students to answer questions about an excerpt from Zona Gale’s famous play. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and make predictions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Mount St Helens Erupts’ asks students to answer questions about the eruption of Mount St Helens in the state of Washington in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Mr Love’s Canal’ asks students to answer questions about Love Canal, a canal built by American William T. Love in the late 1800s. 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, ‘My Body Part I’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that show different parts of the human body. 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, ‘My Body Part II’ asks students to match simple sentences to pictures that show different parts of the human body. 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 exemplar, ‘My Shadow’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information from the poem.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave’ asks students to answer questions about Frederick Douglass. 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 exemplar, ‘Nellie Bly’ provides a model of a completed reading comprehension worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and supporting details and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Amsterdam Life’ asks students to answer questions about life in New Amsterdam, which is now New York City. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about author purpose.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Amsterdam’s Buildings’ asks students to answer questions about buildings in New Amsterdam, which is now New York City. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Friend’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about two dinosaurs that become friends. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘New Shoes’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about a mother and her daughter who need new shoes. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
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