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.

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

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.

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. Please do leave a review if you find these resources helpful

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.

A worksheet to use as part of reading comprehension practice. Ideal as an Accelerated Reader activity. KS3

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

Reading comprehension and questions pack perfect for KS3 (or as a fun warm-up for KS4)- a few included: Rise of the YouTube Vloggers - who are they and how did they make their millions? Environmental issues - a very serious article about very scary problems students will face in their lifetimes unless serious action is taken. E-Sports and professional gamers. What’s it like to be one of these? How do they do it and what exactly do they do? Flat Earthers - what is this new trend? Why do some people believe the Earth is flat? An investigation into the growing anti-science trend and why this movement is gaining momentum. Rise of the Online Trolls - why do people ‘troll’? Who are these bullies hiding behind screens? This article investigates. The rising popularity of plastic and cosmetic surgery - what is this, what are the ethical issues behind it and why is it so popular? Virtual reality - what can we do with this technology? How does it work and what’s in store for the future? Tattoos - too cool for school or looking like a fool? Why is there so much prejudice against tattoos in a professional workplace and is this likely to change any time soon? ) Alternative Facts - what are these? Who came up with this term and what do we need to know? The Sugar Tax - why should your pay more for your favourite bottle of pop? This opinion piece investigates the rights and wrongs of this controversial tax. Scientology - just why is this organisation so rich? Terrorism - how have our attitudes towards terrorist plots changed? (Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes Focus) Fracking - what is this and what’s the big fuss about? The antivaxx movement - who are these people rejecting vaccines? Why? Amazon and the toy-craze madness - why do people turn consumer-crazy at Christmas? What’s the problem with this? And more! All of these articles are pretty interesting for students and teachers! All are very easy to use and a good way to combine Current Affairs / Citizenship and English or just for reading comprehension practice. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.

Four simple sheets to help children practise their reading comprehension skills. All three sheets will help the children improve their ‘gathering information’ skills. Each text has 2 levels of difficulty and whilst they are aimed at Year 1, would be suitable for some Year R and 2 children also.

Winter of the Wolves by Tony Bradman reading comprehension questions. There are two sets of questions per chapter both in the SAT style of questionning: one for MA/HA and one for LA. Suitable for KS2, particularly Year 3 to Year 5 and fits in well with Anglo Saxon studies. The marks available for each questions are in red.

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 YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: French Vocabulary Revision Board Games French Giant Revision Crossword   Thank you for your interest in my resources. I hope I can save you time!   FRENCH TOPICS TO EXPLORE… French KS2 / KS3 MEGA BUNDLE 1 French KS2 / KS3 MEGA BUNDLE 2 French KS2 / KS3 MEGA BUNDLE 3

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   YOU MIGHT LIKE… Complex Sentences Activity Cards Editing SPaG Puzzles Worksheets Full Stops and Capital Letters Cards Improving Sentences Writing Worksheets Winter Stories Creative Writing Story Prompts Creative Writing Story Prompts

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.

Science reading comprehension can be engaging! This reading comprehension for science discusses the topic of how digestion system works. Along with the reading passage are science reading comprehension worksheets, containing questions that align with the reading passage. There is also an application question to get the students showcasing their understanding. I have made this activity for my foundation tier year 10 students studying AQA GCSE Combined Science. As such, the content aligns with that specification. However, I do believe it would also be suitable for a high attaining KS3 group in year 8 or 9. My passion for science literacy is what has lead me to develop a range of science reading comprehension worksheet, as it is important for students to be able to access nonfiction reading comprehension outside of their English lessons. This lesson plan is designed to get students enjoying reading about science and applying what they have learned. The focus of the passage is the journey food takes through the digestive system, including answering such questions as: What is digestion system? How digestion system works? Where does the digestive system begin? Where does the digestive process start? What is the digestive system importance? What are foods good for digestion system? Which part of the digestive system absorbs water? Included in this resource is: Digestion System reading passage (3 pages) Student worksheet (2 pages) Exit Ticket Lesson plan (1 page) Teacher reflection (1 page) Ideas for using this resource: Team work: they read together and work together on the questions As a part of a literacy centre Individual task: for early finishers/as homework Class task: taking it in turns to read together, before completing the worksheets in pairs/individually I hope you enjoy this activity - keep an eye out for more Biology reading comprehension passages with activities coming soon!

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.

An A3 reading comprehension sheet based on a Dracula extract - comprehension activity, vocabulary definition and author’s intention. Suitable for KS3 or KS4

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. For everything English GCSE and KS3, free and inexpensive, check out my Tes Award nominated shop: Lead Practioner's English Store

With the opening extract included, this comprehension resource includes questions and answers for this popular text by Ted Hughes. Suitable for children working towards/at the expected standard in Y3/4, the questions are closely linked to the National Curriculum and therefore adequately develop their comprehension skills. It can be used as a guided reading text, an assessment piece or as an introduction to the text in general. For the differentiated version of this resource, please go to the Reading Resources for Teachers’ TES Shop.

Prince William recently spoke out about the plight of elephants in China. This reading comprehension resource supports a BBC News article which investigates the real threat to China's elephants - habitat destruction. 3 differentiated worksheets of questions are included.

Reading comprehension sheets using the VIPERS style Vocabulary Inference Predict Explain Retrieve Summarise/ Sequence APE = Answer, Prove Explain Reading comprehension that I use for weekly homework in Year 5. I have included the extracts of the texts and questions. Resources are free but if you would like to donate a book to our class library that would be lovely.https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/9YJ1CA1UU691?ref_=wl_share