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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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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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.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Monitoring
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Visualising
A 12 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of visualising.
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Making Text Connections Graphic Organiser (Years 3–6)
A graphic organiser to use with students when making connections with a text.
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Letter to the Editor: Social Media – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a persuasive article about social media.
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Find the Main Idea Poster
A poster highlighting how to find the main idea when reading a piece of text.
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Movie Versus Book Popcorn and Drink Review - Template
Templates that students can compare and review a movie and a book with the same title, then construct them into a 3D popcorn box and movie drink cup.
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Book Review Worksheet
A book review and summary card for comprehension learning.
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Reading Detectives Bookmarks
8 colourful reading detective bookmarks to use during guided reading sessions in the classroom.
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Frida's Fiesta: Open for Business - Inquiry Project
An inquiry project where students get the opportunity to design their own restaurant.
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Advertisement Worksheet – K-9ine the Robot Dog
A comprehension worksheet for a persuasive magazine advertisement about a robotic dog.
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Year 3 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 3 students.
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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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Making Inferences - Characters Feelings
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to draw conclusions and make inferences when reading.
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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 Changing Seasons – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for an article about different seasons from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Activating Prior Knowledge
A 13 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
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Christmas Inferencing Activity and Task Card
Skip the inferencing worksheet and have some fun with a Christmas-themed investigation activity.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Reception Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 16-page reading magazine specifically designed for Reception students.
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Foldable Inferencing Template
A template for students to use when making inferences.
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Reading Response Journal – Comprehension Templates
A journal with comprehension sheets designed for students to study texts.
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Reading Response Double Entry – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise writing double entries.
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Reading Response Inferring and Predicting – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise inferring and predicting.
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Reading Response Making Connections – Template
A comprehension template for students to learn how to make connections.
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Reading Response Personal Review – Template
A comprehension template for students to write a text review about what they have been reading.
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Reading Response Visualising – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise visualising.
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Reading Response Questioning – Template
A comprehension template for students to practise questioning.
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- Comprehension Strategies for Key Stage 2 - Lower
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