This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Building on Flood Plains’, features an informational text about whether building permits should be granted in flood-prone areas. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about fact/opinion, reasoning, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, author’s purpose, importance, persuasion, questioning, genre, vocabulary, and drawing a …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Droughts in the United States’, features the rough draft of a report on droughts. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, usage, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ accuracy in written work.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Hawaiian Island Volcanoes’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘How to Write an Evacuation Plan’, features a procedural text about planning for emergencies such as volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, purpose, questioning, slant/bias, genre, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet provided …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Preparing for a Monster Storm’, features an informational text about disaster plans for hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, comparison/contrast, drawing a conclusion, classifying, reasoning, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Report on a Natural Disaster’, features instructions for students to create a newspaper report about a natural disaster. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest using senses to describe the event and including people’s reactions during and after the crisis.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Killer Storm’, features an informational text about a storm that devastated Galveston, Texas, in 1900. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, cause and effect, detail, mood/tone, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, drawing a conclusion, and reasoning. Answer …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Mount St Helens Volcanic Eruption’, features an informational text about the devastating eruption of 1980. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, central purpose, reasoning, making an inference, detail, sequence, purpose, vocabulary, importance, predicting outcome, and making a judgment. …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Tornadoes on the Loose’, features the rough draft of a report on tornadoes in the United States. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, usage, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ accuracy in …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Yellowstone on Fire’, features an informational text about a devastating fire in Yellowstone National Park in 1988. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, detail, fact/opinion, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet provided with file download.