This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Charleston’s Lighthouses’, features an informational text on the history of lighthouses in Charleston Harbor. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, reasoning, detail, and drawing a conclusion. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In these paired texts, ‘Clipper Ships’ and ‘Diary of a Sailor’ readers can use a report and a personal diary from the 1800s to understand older ways of shipping cargo. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity ‘How Vikings Lived’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the history of Vikings.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Ship Talk’, features a light-hearted poem about semaphore, the flag code used on ships. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about poem structure, detail, word meaning, figurative language, punctuation, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Sunk by a Whale’, features an informational text about the 1819 sinking of a whaling ship. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, character, making a judgment, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Essex’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text this ill-fated whaling ship. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Kraken’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these mythical creatures. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Mary Celeste’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the mysterious disappearance of this ship. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Ship that Changed Naval Warfare’, features an informational text about a submarine that was lost during the American Civil War. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about importance, mood, validity, visual comprehension, cause and effect, and slant/bias. Answer sheet provided …More
This history article, ‘Titanic Mistakes’ features the mistakes that happened before and during the sinking of the famous ship. It provides factual information about the ship’s testing, lifeboats and rescue, and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
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