Three comprehension activities.
All suitable for year 7, 8, 9
Used in lower ability workshops/ Dyslexic workshops/weak working memory.
Reading activity – which can be shared reading activity.
A question sheet – which has all the new vocabulary explained.
Teachers answer sheets to save time -
A word document booklet, which can be printed or sent to students, containing extracts from six different texts, followed by 8-10 comprehension questions. Each set of questions is followed by a creative writing extension task themed around the extracts.
The extracts have been sourced from the following texts:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
‘Supersports High’ - an article from The Times (12.8.2012)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The resource may be suitable for students in years 6-8 depending upon their reading ability.
A handy reading resource for classroom teaching or tutoring - **eight passages with comprehension and analysis questions. **
Questions include comprehension and language analysis; some are arranged in a traffic light system to determine challenge.
Passages are from KS3-appropriate texts: Of Mice and Men, A Christmas Carol, The Hunger Games, Animal Farm, Sherlock Holmes, etc.
This is a full scheme of work focusing on the Lord of the Flies. This 268 slide power point offers 33 lessons on the novel and works on both reading analysis (on blue background slides) and creative writing skills (on green background slides).
Each lesson follows the same structure of:
Lesson Objective
Engaging starter task
Activities
Review tasks
Lessons cover:
contextual background of the novel
plot understanding and comprehension
-analysis of setting/characters/relationships
exploration of themes
writing in role
Lessons have a variety of tasks.
Tasks are supported with modeled examples where necessary.
Lessons also include literacy boosters focusing on ambitious vocabulary within the text.
Success criteria is provided throughout.
It is aimed at KS3 students but can easily be adapted to suit KS4 as both the reading and writing criteria used to inform the scheme is taken from the AQA Literature exam board criteria.
All the resources needed are included within the scheme.
There is an additional section at the end of the scheme that offers more challenging (Political, Psychological and Biblical readings) interpretations of the text in order to stretch more able KS3 students or to help cater to KS4 students.
Contains three classic fiction text extracts accompanied by SATs style questions with answers. The final text in the year 6 reading test is often very challenging and the associated questions require depth of understanding. It can be difficult to find suitable texts and develop suitable questions to practise the skills needed to do well in this section of the SATs reading paper.
This resource can help. It contains three:
Challenging classic fiction texts
Mini-tests containing 10 questions which are similar in style to those commonly found in this section of the test including questions linked to inference, evidence and impressions.
Answer sheets similar to the markschemes used in SATs.
Reading the text and answering the questions for each mini-test will take about twenty minutes - approximately the same amount of time the children will have to complete the last section of the reading test during SATs. This enables this resource to be used for test practice to develop test technique. The answer sheet can then be used to analyse and discuss suitable answers.
The comprehensions are based on the following books:
-Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
-Anne of the Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
-The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
KS3 Comprehension on Forces. Ideal for end of topic recap or revision. Suitable for home learning too.
Covers forces, balanced and unbalanced forces, free body diagrams, work done. Also includes a version with numbered lines to aid reading.
The resource comes with a set of questions and answers that test students’ understanding of what they have read. The questions are designed to promote critical thinking and help students retain the information.
Mix of follow up questions:
Gap fills
Key term matching
True or false
Short answer questions
Long answer questions
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This resource explores the historic Opening Ceremony along Seine River of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games; new sports like Breaking, and iconic venues.
A FREE INTERACTIVE MCQ QUIZ ACCOMMPANIES THIS RESOURCE:
Learn about a centenary celebration, inclusive events, and Tahiti surfing, details on Extreme slalom, mixed events in athletics, shooting, and sailing. Understand ticket pricing and accessibility.
The questions cover a range of cognitive skills, from basic recall to higher-order thinking such as analysis and interpretation. They are designed to assess the reader’s understanding and engagement with the information provided in the reading passage.
Ideal for students and teachers seeking comprehensive insights into this monumental event.
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A non-chron extract on the life of Ancient Greek Theatre
Available as PDF and Editable Copy
Bronze/Silver/Gold differentiated guided reading questions using VIPERS skills.
Aimed at KS2 / Lower KS3
Reading Comprehension for the topic of Daily Routine.
This resource comes with three levels of diffculty, each level comes with a French version and an English version. PDF version and PowerPoint included, The PowerPoint has editable text so you can tailor it to your student’s needs if needed.
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in exam revision, comprehension tasks, or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the KS4 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework - this makes the tasks suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
- 'Context: The Great Depression' - to aid students with 'Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation;'
- 'Steinbeck's Description' - to aid students with 'Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;'
- 'Curley's Wife' - to aid students with 'Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;'
- 'Editing the Text' - to aid students with 'Making an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.'
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 30 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).
Apollo 13
Plane crash in the Andes
Mine rescue in Chile
Castaway
This collection of four guided reading activities, aimed at children aged 10-13 years old, tests children’s inference and deduction skills. It will also promote lively and engaging classroom discussion as children explore these remarkable stories for themselves.
Each activity has questions and answers, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for reading tests and exams, encouraging them to give fuller answers where required.
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A great resource to engage and motivate students! This download includes a well organised and visually appealing information sheet, along with an A4 task sheet that encourages independent learning.
The task sheet includes 20 comprehension questions, along with three challenge questions and an extension task.
Worksheets which show the Shakespearean text of key scenes alongside questions to support comprehension. Numbering helps students to know where to look for the answers and demonstrate that they can understand Shakespeare’s language better than they first realise.
Answers Included
Scenes covered: Prologue, A1S2 (Romeo’s first appearance), A1S5 (first meeting), A2S2 (balcony), A3S1 (the fight)
Excellent for introducing scenes and establishing understanding, or GCSE revision cementing understanding, wide knowledge and reviewing key quotations. Works great as a homework or independent study task.
Students can check their answers against the answer sheet provided as part of revision.
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This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘Refugee Boy.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS3 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
‘Context: Eritrean-Ethiopian War’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ��Know the purpose, audience and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension.’
‘Zephaniah’s Description’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, present meaning.’
‘Mr and Mrs Fitzgerald Character Profile’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Study setting, plot, and characterisation, and the effects of these.’
‘Vocabulary Inspector’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Learn new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries.’
Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 23 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).
This resource is aimed at EDEXCEL GCSE History students studying Medicine Through Time, c1250-present. This bundle includes four A3 sheets which serve as comprehensive revision resources and an additional revision pack which includes 4 weeks worth of tasks and includes 40 knowledge questions for each unit (answers in the notes bar for cross-referencing) and exam question planning/help for each of the questions in the paper. There are ‘model’ teacher completed sheets for the first two A3 sheets which should act as a guide for what can/should be achieved with these resources. Students can complete tasks from memory, using class notes, the Pearson or Hodder textbooks, or online flashcards.
It’s been tried and tested with several cohorts and has significant impact when setting revision in the run up to mocks, end of year tests or real exams
4 non fiction articles with reading comprehension questions and an extended writing task linked to the issue.
Perfect for cover work or homework.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
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These reading comprehension packs contain five pages each of engaging, colour-illustrated fiction and non-fiction texts. Each page of text has a corresponding page of questions, specifically designed to encourage your child to retrieve information and also develop their skills of inference. The packs include example answers for marking.
An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on urgent environmental issues . It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training.
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and good to raise awareness of envirornmental issues.
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