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Explore printable worksheets, digital activities and more to teach reading strategies and comprehension strategies in your primary classroom. Created by teachers, for teachers, the teaching resources in this collection are aligned to the Australian curriculum and have undergone a careful review by a member of our expert teaching team.
You'll find editable versions to easily differentiate your instruction for individual students, plus a variety of options to make lesson planning easier this school year!
New to teaching this portion of the English curriculum or just looking for fresh and engaging ways to teach reading comprehension strategies? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
We'll start at the beginning! Reading comprehension is a skill that's hard to overestimate in terms of its importance for early years students to develop.
Defined as the ability to understand and interpret written language, reading comprehension involves the process of decoding text, extracting meaning from it, and then integrating that meaning with prior knowledge and understanding.
Not only does comprehension comprise the ability to recognise and understand individual words, but it also involves the ability to recognise patterns and relationships within sentences and paragraphs, as well as the ability to make inferences and draw conclusions based on the information presented.
To develop reading comprehension, students need a variety of language skills such as vocabulary knowledge, grammar, and syntax, as well as cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and critical thinking.
So how do they get there? Let's talk strategies!
As you well know, students don't start off being able to comprehend every single thing they read. But teaching them strategies to better understand and retain information will allow them to go from recognising individual words to understanding a range of texts.
Some common reading comprehension strategies include:
All of these comprehension strategies can be taught and practised explicitly.
A collection of worksheets to enable students to apply reading comprehension strategies.
Read to learn about the Great Pacific Garbage patch with a printable reading comprehension worksheet pack.
Learn about the planets with differentiated compare and contrast passages, activities and writing opportunities.
A series of comic cell worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from everyday situations.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 4 students.
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
A 12 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
A template to use when teaching students how to compare and contrast.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 5 students.
A pack of posters which explain the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.
A set of 6 worksheets to help students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
A 15 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Year 2 students.
Allow your students to record their connections to a particular text with this Making Connections Worksheet.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
A beautifully designed, 26-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
A worksheet to practise identifying facts and opinions.
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
A series of real estate advertisement worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from written texts.
A teaching resource to help your students summarise a story.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 1 of Teach Starter's Year 4 magazine.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 1 of Teach Starter's Year 3 magazine.
A 13 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of inferring.
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Year 1 students.
A superdog themed text and set of questions to help develop comprehension strategies in the classroom.
A set of question mats to use when working with the Super Six reading comprehension strategies.