This Poetry worksheet, ‘A Different Kind of Boat’, features a whimsical poem about an unusual sailing voyage in a pea-green concrete boat. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about detail, vocabulary, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Perilous Voyage’, features a biographical text about Francis Chichester’s round-the-world sailing expedition in Gipsy Moth IV. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, making a judgment, vocabulary, drawing a conclusion, detail, cause and effect, making an inference, and sequence. …More
This history timeline, ‘The Irish Port of Cobh’ features important dates and factual background information about the major events that took place at Cobh and reflect the changing face of Ireland, from convicts and Queen Victoria’s visit to mass emigration during the Great Potato Famine, the last stop of the Titanic, the sinking of the …More
In this worksheet, ‘Boat Word Search’ students find hidden boating words.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Building a Viking Longboat’, features a procedural recount about the innovative shipbuilding methods of the Vikings. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, vocabulary, sequence, reasoning, predicting outcome, comparison/contrast, visual comprehension, and making a judgment. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Canal Touring Holidays’, features the text of a brochure about sailing holidays on New York’s Erie Canal. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, validity, cause and effect, and detail. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Charles Erkine’s story’, features a biographical text about a cabin boy on the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-42. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, cause and effect, sequence, reasoning, character, importance, and genre. Answer …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Ready to Sail’, features a narrative text about young sailors and an advertisement for a sailing camp. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about classification, mood/tone, cause and effect, figurative language, drawing a conclusion, detail, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Sir Francis Chichester’, features a biographical text about the first person to sail the longest route around the world alone. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about fact/opinion, comparison/contrast, setting, sequence, detail, cause and effect, visual comprehension, mood/tone, the main idea, …More
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Your Ideal Family Holiday’, features instructions for students to create an informational report about their idea for a holiday on or near water. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest using descriptive details and including holiday activities and the reasons for the choice …More
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