Comprehension Strategies Teaching Resources
A comprehensive collection of comprehension strategies resources. Use the display resources within this collection to visually represent the different comprehension strategies to your students. There are also a large number of hands-on activities, including before, during and after reading dice and wheel prompts, comprehension strategies, board games, sequencing activities and 'I can' statements to use as goal-setting resources. Also provided are comprehension strategy packs that have everything in them you need to teach finding word meaning in context, distinguishing between real and make-believe, author's purpose, summarising, understanding sequence, making predictions, drawing conclusions and making inferences, interpreting figurative language, finding the main idea, recalling facts and details, distinguishing between fact and opinion, comparing and contrasting and cause and effect.
- Plus Plan
I Have, Who Has? Fact and Opinion Game
A whole class game to help students understand the difference between a fact and an opinion.
- Plus Plan
Main Idea or Supporting Detail? – Sorting Activity
An activity for students to determine which of 2 related facts is a main idea and which is a supporting detail.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Visualising – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise visualising.
- Plus Plan
Novel Study - Alternate Story Ending Worksheet
A worksheet which encourages students to write an alternate ending to a shared class story.
- Plus Plan
Inference vs Prediction - Presentation
A teaching presentation outlining the similarities and differences between inference and prediction.
- Plus Plan
Book Review Worksheet
A book review and summary card for comprehension learning.
- Plus Plan
Making Predictions with Books - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to make predictions when reading.
- Plus Plan
Inference or Prediction? Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching your students the difference between an inference and a prediction.
- Plus Plan
Frida's Fiesta: Open for Business - Inquiry Project
An inquiry project where students get the opportunity to design their own restaurant.
- Plus Plan
Author's Purpose Pie
A pie that shows the three main reasons an author writes a piece of text.
- Plus Plan
Make Connections Poster
A poster highlighting how to make connections when reading a piece of text.
- Plus Plan
Making Inferences - Characters Feelings
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
- Plus Plan
Spring Is Here Poem – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a poem about the season spring.
- Plus Plan
Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Predicting
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
- Plus Plan
Inferring Practice – Worksheet
A worksheet to practise making inferences.
- Plus Plan
Making Predictions Task Cards
A set of 10 task cards to practice making predictions.
- Plus Plan
Making Inferences - Detective Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
- Plus Plan
Research Skills Worksheets - Note Taking
A set of 6 worksheets to help students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
- Plus Plan
Christmas Inferencing Activity and Task Card
Skip the inferencing worksheet and have some fun with a Christmas-themed investigation activity.
- Plus Plan
Editable Teacher Forms for the Classroom
Use this collection of teacher printables to organise parent volunteers, receive feedback from supply teachers, keep students up to date on missed work and more!
- Plus Plan
Year 5 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 5 magazine.
- Plus Plan
Year 6 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 6 magazine.
- Plus Plan
Reception Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Reception students.
- Plus Plan
Foldable Inferencing Template
A template for students to use when making inferences.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Double Entry – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise writing double entries.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Inferring and Predicting – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise inferring and predicting.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Making Connections – Template
A comprehension template for students to learn how to make connections.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Personal Review – Template
A comprehension template for students to write a text review about what they have been reading.
- Plus Plan
Reading Response Questioning – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise questioning.
- Plus Plan
Year 2 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 1 of Teach Starter's Year 2 magazine.
- Plus Plan
Reception Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Bonus Issue)
A bonus issue of our beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Reception students.
- Plus Plan
Reception Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Reception students.