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.
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Make Connections Poster
A poster highlighting how to make connections when reading a piece of text.
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Inferring Written Scenario Task Cards
Task cards that help students use their knowledge and ideas to help them decode ideas in texts
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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activity Cards
Use these fairy tale activity cards to help your students understand sequencing.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Sequencing Activity Cards
Use these fairy tale activity cards to help your students understand sequencing.
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Three Little Pigs Sequencing Activity Cards
Use these fairy tale activity cards to help your students understand sequencing.
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Year 3 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter’s Year 3 magazine.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Text And Word Meaning Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Meaning Cards
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Word Detective Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Finding Word Meaning In Context - Prove Your Thinking Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students how to find word meaning in context.
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Real Or Make-Believe - Sentence And Picture Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students the difference between real and make-believe.
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Author's Purpose - Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Author's Purpose - Puzzle Activity
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Author's Purpose Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Author's Purpose - Sentence Writing Game
A teaching resource to help teach your students the different reasons authors may write.
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Using Context Clues – Worksheet
A worksheet to practise using context clues when reading.
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Figurative Language - Self Portrait Activity
A worksheet using figurative language to describe a student's self portrait.
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Fact or Opinion - Sentence Sort Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to distinguish between fact or opinion.
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What's Missing? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive presentation where students try to guess what object is missing from the picture.
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Year 4 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 2 of Teach Starter’s Year 4 magazine.
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10 Fascinating Facts About Mauna Kea – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about ten facts about Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
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Year 6 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 6 magazine.
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Year 6 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 26-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
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The Robot Chant – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet accompanying a rhyming chant about robots.
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The Changing Seasons – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about different seasons from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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Year 1 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 1 magazine.
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Year 5 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter's Year 5 magazine.
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Human Histories: Helpful Heroes – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about people around the world who have dedicated their lives to helping others.
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Year 2 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 2 magazine.
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Digital Warriors: Social Footprints – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a comic about being safe when sharing photos on digital platforms.
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Poetry Comprehension Worksheet
A generic poetry comprehension worksheet.