Reading Comprehension Teaching Resources
Students will apply a range of comprehension strategies to locate key information and link ideas when reading a variety of texts. Use this collection of comprehension texts in the classroom for independent and group literacy tasks when teaching different comprehension strategies. Also included are PowerPoints, question cards and comprehension task cards for each of the main comprehension strategies.
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Free Printable Wanted Poster Template Pack
Use a 'Wanted' poster template pack to encourage your students to research and write about historic figures and more!
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Worksheets
A collection of worksheets to enable students to apply reading comprehension strategies.
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Reciprocal Teaching Role Cards
A set of 4 colourful reciprocal teaching role cards to assign to students during guided reading groups.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make a Milkshake
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Letter to the Editor (Voting Rights) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a letter to the editor from the Year 6 magazine (Issue 3).
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Making Predictions Task Cards
A set of 10 task cards to practice making predictions.
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Chinese New Year Comprehension Worksheet
Read and learn about Chinese New Year with a reading comprehension passage and worksheet.
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Bat Facts and Opinions Worksheet
Identify facts and opinions with a Halloween worksheet activity about bats.
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Monster Magic - Reading Comprehension Activity
A fun reading comprehension activity in which students follow a set of instructions to create their own magic monster.
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Little Tree (Poem) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a poem from the Reception magazine (Issue 1).
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How to Make a Milkshake – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a procedure from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Novel Study - Making Predictions Worksheet
A worksheet to assist students in making predictions before reading a novel.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Year 4
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 4 students.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Induction Booklet – Project
A project where students study the Five Wonders Theme Park stimulus poster to understand and use real world learning skills.
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Author's Purpose Pie
A pie that shows the three main reasons an author writes a piece of text.
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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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Let's Get Ready to Rock! – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for the information report from the Year 3 magazine (Issue 2).
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Monitoring
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Three Levels of Reading Posters
Beyond the lines, between the lines and on the lines posters for the three levels of reading.
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Figurative Language Posters – Onomatopoeia
Help young readers and writers recognise onomatopoeias with a set of onomatopoeia classroom posters.
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The History of Halloween – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about the history of Halloween with a printable reading comprehension passage and questions.
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Halloween Display – Wrapped Up in a Good Book
Download a printable Halloween display set for your classroom that showcases your pupils’ insightful book reviews with our Halloween-themed classroom display.
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Year 5 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 5 magazine.
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Year 6 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 6 magazine.
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Community Helpers: Fire Fighter – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article from the Reception magazine (Issue 3).
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Main Idea or Supporting Detail? – Sorting Activity
An activity for students to determine which of 2 related facts is a main idea and which is a supporting detail.
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Foldable Inferencing Template
A template for students to use when making inferences.
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A Thinker Like Me - Read and Respond Worksheet
A comprehension activity related to a poem.
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Reading Response Double Entry – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise writing double entries.
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Reading Response Inferring and Predicting – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise inferring and predicting.
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Reading Response Making Connections – Template
A comprehension template for students to learn how to make connections.
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Reading Response Personal Review – Template
A comprehension template for students to write a text review about what they have been reading.