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

Novel Study - Chapter Summary Worksheet
A worksheet to help students reflect on their thoughts after reading a chapter in a class novel.
- Plus Plan

Year 1 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 1 magazine.
- Plus Plan

Five Wonders Theme Park: Fresh Start – Project
A project for students to use their literacy skills and creativity to re brand Five Wonders Theme Park.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension - Creepy Cat Club
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
- 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

Making Inferences - Detective Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
- Plus Plan

'I Can' Statements - Literacy (Key Stage 1)
A set of 90 'I can' statement cards focusing on literacy for Key Stage 1.
- 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

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Draw Conclusions and Make Inferences
A comprehensive resource pack helping students draw conclusions and make inferences.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Interpreting Figurative Language
A comprehensive resource pack helping students explore the concept of figurative language.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
A comprehensive resource pack to help students distinguish between real and make-believe.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding Word Meaning in Context
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand how to work out the meaning of words in context.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Understanding Sequence
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of sequencing.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding the Main Idea
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to learn how to find the main idea.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
A comprehensive resource pack to help students learn to distinguish between fact and opinion.
- Plus Plan

Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Author's Purpose
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of author’s purpose.
- Free Plan

Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
- Plus Plan

Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
- Plus Plan

Inference vs Prediction
- Free Plan

Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
- Plus Plan

Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
- Plus Plan

Predicting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
- Plus Plan

Monitoring
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
- Plus Plan

Activating Prior Knowledge
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
- Plus Plan

Making Connections
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
-

10 Exciting QR Code Classroom Activity Ideas
Here are 10 awesome ways to use QR Codes in your classroom. These ideas and teaching resources cover Mathematics, Comprehension and more!