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.

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

a reading comprehension on a easy text in Dutch on not sleeping enough. there are questions in English and a vocab recognition section followed by 3 simple questions in Dutch

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 chapter of the A Christmas Carol included, this comprehension resource has questions and answers about this popular text by Charles Dickens. Suitable for children working towards/at the expected standard in Y5/6, 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.

RWI reading comprehension (Book 2) - 12 Reading comprehensions based on RWI set 1 phonics and introducing set 2: ay ee igh ow oo (poo) oo (look) ar or air ir ou oy Instructions: Children should read the short story 3 times. Each time they colour one star at the bottom. Children should look at the sound in the top right corner and circle words with that sound in the story. Children read (with support from an adult) the questions and highlight the answers in the story. Then they write the correct answer on the lines provided. Take a peek at the preview for a better picture of what is included! **Also take a look at RWI Reading Comprehension Book 1: ** https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12150271

The Listener - Walter de la Mere 1912 The only reading comp i believe to be on TES for Y5, as i couldnt find one so had to make one. This is an alternative to The Highway man etc, with Y5 questions and the poem does not involve any malice (shooting, burning etc!). Thanks

An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on the debate around tattoos and the prejudices many have against them. It contains one mild slang term and is aimed more at KS4. 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 way to combine Current Affairs and English. For everything English GCSE and KS3, free and inexpensive, check out my Tes Award nominated shop: Lead Practioner's English Store

I created these tasks mainly to hit the NC statement, “increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including…modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage…” after realising that many of my pupils had never even heard of (let alone read) many of the classic stories from our heritage. These tasks provide samples and accompanying tasks from 15 classics (both older and modern.) Please note: the 75 files were too large for one listing on TES, so I’ve compressed them into a zip file. I’ve also uploaded one lesson separately (Hound of the Baskervilles) so you can see the resource. What’s Included: *15 complete reading comprehension lessons, made up of: -The extract in Microsoft Word format -The extract in Notebook format (for Whiteboard projection) -Questions with response spaces (plus points per question, like SATs papers) -Just Questions (for higher ability pupils or just to save on photocopying!) -Suggested answers (my TA does these tasks with small groups, so the answer sheet comes in handy) Useful for: -Whole-class comprehension lessons -Small group work (E.g. Round Robin Reading Groups) -Boosting / extra support for poor readers Titles: -Alice in Wonderland -Great Expectations -Northern Lights -Stardust -Stig of the Dump -The Butterfly Lion -The Hound of the Baskervilles -The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -The Secret Garden -The Star of Kazan -The White Giraffe -The Wind in the Willows -The Wizard of Oz -Treasure Island -Wonder

Three reading comprehension activities linked to chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Letters from the Lighthouse. Each chapter has a comprehension activity that includes 20 questions that work on different skills as well as also having the answers included separately. A free example for Chapter One can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letters-from-the-lighthouse-chapter-one-reading-comprehension-12376815

This is a reading comprehension covers plants and photosynthesis and parts of a leaf. It is a three-page reading text which incorporates information on leaf rubbings which students could carry out and then label parts of the rubbings. Content Reading comprehension (3 pages) Questions with Answer Key Leaf rubbing activity Word work: Students highlight words that are used in the text and put them alphabetical order; Words within a word: list as many words as possible from the word ‘Photosynthesis’. Editable text and A4 and US size worksheets. Please see preview pane of what to expect in this product. You can use this product as an additional worksheet to: Introduction to Photosynthesis Presentation. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12593024

A superbly simple and useful reading comprehension booklet with 18 simple stories. Each story is written to help young learners consolidate their phase 3 phonemes and tricky words. 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

An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on the story of Guy Fawkes and the plotters, their plans and how they were caught and executed, before investigating why we don’t celebrate foiled terrorist plots today. 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 certainly relevant for this time of year. It includes an editable word version and a PDF version. For everything English GCSE and KS3, free and inexpensive, check out my Tes Award nominated shop: EnglishGCSE.co.uk Store With thanks to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guy-fawkes.png

This pack contains 30 close reading comprehensions and questions that are suitable for Reception to Year 2 depending on the ability of your students. There are a range of comprehensions that gradually get harder and require the students to read and answer more questions as they progress through each comprehension. The initial comprehensions are simpler and have 3 questions and build up to more complex passages with 9 questions by the final comprehensions. These are great to use for whole class activities, guided reading, or both independent and supported work or homework. These are based on the reading outcomes from the National Curriculum for Year 1 and 2. Please note these are not the same as my 10 Early Years reading comprehensions. These are more complex. Suitable for Year 1 and 2 and lower KS2 for lower ability students. See my shop for more resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TopmarksEd

An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on the potential of virtual reality technology. 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 way to combine Current Affairs and English. For everything English GCSE and KS3, free and inexpensive, check out my Tes Award nominated shop: Lead Practioner's English Store

An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on the rise of the Flat Earthers (conspiracy theorists who think the earth is flat). 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 way to combine Current Affairs and English. For everything English GCSE and KS3, free and inexpensive, check out my Tes Award nominated shop:Lead Practioner's English Store

TES resources Hensel and Grethel READING comprehension supplementary activities based on this fairy tale

George’s Marvellous Medicine - Reading Comprehension I have used this resource with my class and the children have really enjoyed the tasks. Each lesson is based on a chapter from the book. The questions cover a range of different questions types and the activities have an extension task. The resources also include a unit cover and display / working wall resources. E.g. Learning objectives, questions, key words and definitions. To find more resources visit my TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Paineltd Also see my other reading and writing unit - Lost and Found: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=463334&q=lost and found&shop=Paineltd

Reading Comprehension – Mr Stink Complete Lesson on Comprehension Related to Mr Stink by David Walliams This download includes a complete comprehension lesson on the first paragraph of the book Mr Stink by David Walliams. Children will read and discuss the chapter. There is a PowerPoint to explain comprehension to the class and some sample questions to practice together, before they try to answer comprehension questions independently. There is also a short chapter summary sheet for children to complete to reflect on the chapter read. You will need a copy of the book Mr Stink; everything else needed is included in this download. Please note the page numbers referenced refer to the paperback version, although the page needed is indicated as clearly as possible to avoid any confusion. This download includes: - Full and detailed lesson plan - PowerPoint slides for the lesson - Question sheets (4 full pages) - Complete answer keys - Chapter review sheets Thanks for looking. Please remember to leave feedback, for updates and promotions you can also follow me here: https://www.tes.com/member/Charleei ***************************************************************************** My other English products: Complete Instruction Writing Unit . https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/instruction-writing-english-complete-unit-of-work-11073401 Complete Persuasive Writing Unit . https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/persuasive-writing-chocolate-complete-unit-of-work-4-weeks-11150139 Complete Dialogues and Play Scripts Writing Unit . https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/complete-english-unit-of-work-dialogues-and-play-scripts-11066463 *****************************************************************************

When you read, it is important to develop strategies to help you understand what you read. Without a good grasp of these different strategies, being an efficient reader becomes difficult or impossible. This interactive resource explains how students can improve their reading comprehension skills using different strategies, what to do with new vocabulary and how to better understand a text. The theory behind improving reading comprehension is backed up with a number of practical activities which give students practice with these skills. This resource was designed for Foundation Year English as a Second Language students, although it could be used by any high school students. It can be used as a stand-alone self-study resource or to supplement classroom teaching. This resource is a Reusable Learning Object created on the Xerte Toolkits platform. You can access it via the URL provided or embed it into a VLE e.g. Moodle or a website.