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 -
Holes by Louis Sachar
Complete comprehension questions for all chapters
Includes:
Smart Notebook slides
PDF version
SAT style comprehension printable tests (PDF and WORD available)
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
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black.' 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: The Rural North' - 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.'
- 'Hill's Description - The Horse and Trap' - 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 Jerome' and 'The Woman in Black' - 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 21 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 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).
Product Description
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text is a summary/ short story based on Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”.
The “Boy” listens closely to his Grandmamma’s stories about the horrid witches, but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself…
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a character match, a crossword, and True or False exercises, a multiple choice exercise and a fill in the gaps. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A collection of comprehension questions for all of the chapters for the novel “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Micheal Morpurgo. Each set contains three different ability sets of questions including support for SEN/Lower Ability groups based on a mixed ability Year Five class. There are 11 sets of questions as Chapter 4 is split into two parts.
Set Includes:
Chapter 1 - Peggy Sue
Chapter 2 - Water, water everywhere
Chapter 3 - Ship’s log
Chapter 4 - Gibons and ghosts [Part 1]
Chapter 4 - Gibons and ghosts [Part 2]
Chapter 5 - I, Kensuke
Chapter 6 - Abunai
Chapter 7 - All that silence
Chapter 8 - Everyone dead in Nagasaki
Chapter 9 - The night of the turtles
Chapter 10 - Killer men come
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.
Introducing our comprehensive resource on Fortnite - the popular online multiplayer video game that has taken the world by storm! This resource is designed for all abilities and is aimed at making learning fun and engaging for students of all ages.
Our resource comes with multiple choice as well as open-ended questions that are designed to challenge and test the knowledge of all pupils. Whether your students are new to the game or have been playing it for years, our resource will provide them with valuable insights into the mechanics and strategies of the game.
With Fortnite being one of the most popular games amongst children, our resource offers a unique opportunity to bring the fun of gaming into the classroom. This will help students stay focused and engaged, as they learn while playing a game that they love.
Our resource is stress-free and hassle-free, making it easy for teachers to incorporate it into their lesson plans. With our comprehensive Fortnite resource, you can be assured that your students will have a great time learning without realising
Elevate Resources presents a 6 page article on Roblox followed by 18 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses: Word Meaning, Retrieval, Summarising, Inference, Prediction, Choice of Words to Enhance Meaning, & Comparisons.
An ideal resource for enthusing students who love gaming!
A superbly simple and useful reading comprehension booklet with 8 simple stories. Each story is written to help young learners consolidate their phase 2 phonemes (s/a/t/p/i/n/m/d/g/o/c/k/ck/e/u/r/h/f/ff/l/ll/ss) and tricky words (I to go into the no) . An ideal tool for developing early reading comprehension skills, helping your young readers to read for meaning.
Each story is followed by four simple questions, allowing you as teacher/adult to support the children to locate and copy the words developing their phoneme-grapheme knowledge, and comprehension skill.
Check out the new Sara and Sem Phonics Phase 3 Stories here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12754893
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ 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;’
‘Lee’s Description’ - to aid students with ‘Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;’
Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Bob Ewell’ - 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).
For New Year 2024 and back to school after the Christmas holidays, here is a differentiated January nonfiction passage / informational text reading comprehension, cloze procedure task, and fun puzzles, designed for upper Primary (Upper KS2 - Years 5 and 6 and equivalents) or early Secondary (KS3 - Year 7 and equivalents). These New Years themed close reading tasks and fun activities are in a printable non-editable PDF file with 20 pages. An additional US spelling / grammar version is included in the Zip file with a small number of amendments to the UK version. Also available in this money-saving**January Reading Comprehensions BUNDLE**.
Most activities are provided at two levels of challenge, therefore they will suit a range of year groups and provide appropriate levels of challenge for different abilities within many classes.
I am designing these non-fiction comprehension and activities packets to provide a variety of interesting and relevant texts and related activities, a time-saving bank of flexible themed tasks linked to dates throughout the year. They feature specially written very short texts (about 250 - 300 words). Each pack is linked to a particular month but of course you can use them whenever you want! Each provides comprehension questions, a cloze procedure task and other linked tasks. The other tasks are on aspects of spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, grammar, writing or reading (this varies across the different packs). Build all activities into your Literacy or English programme, or use for cover lessons, homework, early finisher tasks or for those times when everything goes crazy and you just need something low-prep, meaningful, relevant and engaging at the last minute! I hope you enjoy using them.
CONTENTS:
Reading passage (2 levels of difficulty)
Cloze procedure task (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage
Comprehension questions (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage
Vocabulary grid puzzle (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage
Proofreading puzzle
Full answer keys
Teacher notes
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Basic or beginners French revision activities - 8 KS2 or KS3 French basics comprehension worksheets for revision lessons or independent work, with differentiated versions and answer keys. They feature ‘All About Me’ or Je Me Presente vocabulary and phrases from the following topics:
Greetings and Introductions / Les Salutations
Family and Pets / La Famille et Les Animaux de Compagnie
Sport and Hobbies / Le Sport et Les Passe-temps
Describing People (Physical Appearance and Character Traits) / Les Descriptions Physiques / Les Traits de Caractere
These are also useful as reading assessments, sub lesson activities, early finisher tasks etc. My French basics resources suit students beginning French and near beginners in Year 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (and equivalents in other countries). Please check the preview file to assess suitability for your students. There are 3 PDF files within the Zip file to cater for UK, US and Canadian spelling.
More details about this 33-page PDF file:
Features 8 short texts
All 8 worksheets are included at 2 levels
The one-star versions contain the same text but are for less experienced or lower ability learners and therefore contain multiple-choice questions
The two-star versions feature more challenging questions
Answer keys for all 16 are included
Teacher instruction page at the end of the file
The text is in French and the questions are in English
Students could look up any words they don’t know
There are 3 PDF files in the Zip file, one with UK English spelling versions, one with US spelling, and a Canadian version. The Canadian version also has the word ‘marron’ to describe brown eyes replaced with ‘bruns’ in worksheet 7, the only place where this is relevant. Many other French speakers use ‘marron’, which is used on the version of worksheet 7 in the other files.
THESE WORKSHEETS ARE INCLUDED IN:
French Revision Worksheets BUNDLE
THIS BUNDLE ALSO INCLUDES:
French Revision Puzzles Worksheets
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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text narrates the story of Macbeth based on William Shakespeare's tragedy.
After carefully reading a text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False and a gap filling exercise. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ 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 play ensuring that students gain a deep understanding of the text.
Activities within the booklet include:
‘Context: Shakespearean Times’ - 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;’
‘Shakespeare’s Description’ - to aid students with ‘Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features, and evaluating their effectiveness and impact;’
‘Prospero’ and ‘Miranda’ character profiles- to aid students with ‘Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence;’
‘Editing the Play’ - 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).
This reading comprehension passage about Greek Mythology is designed with your students in mind, ensuring a delightful and educational experience.
What makes this resource a must-have for teachers and their students?
Engaging Content: This easy-to-understand passage is designed to spark curiosity and foster a love for reading.
Test Knowledge: 10 MCQs are provided to encourage critical thinking and ensure a deep understanding of the passage.
Answer Key: Easily assess student progress.
What is all included in this:
Reading Passage with colorful picture
10 descriptive questions
5 True/False questions
5 short answer questions
answer key
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Summary of passage
Greek mythology contains stories of gods, goddesses, and heroes from ancient Greece, used to explain the world and teach lessons. Zeus, the king of the gods, controlled the weather with his thunderbolt and was married to Hera. Poseidon, the god of the sea, was known for his temper and created horses. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and warfare, helped heroes in their quests. Hercules, a famous hero, completed the Twelve Labors with his incredible strength. Medusa, a terrifying monster, turned people to stone until defeated by Perseus. These stories of adventure, drama, and magic have been passed down for centuries and continue to inspire. Greek mythology is a captivating world that teaches lessons of bravery, wisdom, and friendship. Explore the amazing tales that have captivated people for centuries.