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Browse our collection of reading passages and reading worksheets aimed at helping teach reading and comprehension strategies. Some worksheets focus on general comprehension skills, other worksheets help teach specific comprehension strategies including summarising, inferring, cause and effect, visualising and fact vs opinion.

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Comparing Bees & Wasps

Read the text and compare the bees and wasps using a Venn diagram.

Comparing a Beach & a Park

Read the text and compare a beach and a park using a Venn diagram.

Comparing a Christmas Morning

Read the text and compare the two characters using a Venn diagram.

Comparing Two Funny Dogs

Read the text and compare the two dogs using a Venn diagram.

Comparing Two Cats

Read the text and compare the two cats using a Venn diagram.

Levels of Questioning Chart

Ask questions before, during and after reading to develop comprehension skills. This download is a guide to Marion Blank’s levels of questioning.

Threats to Turtles: Cause & Effect (2)

An upper years reading passage about threats to sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Threats to Turtles: Cause & Effect (1)

A middle years reading passage about threats to sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Sea Turtles: Cause & Effect (2)

An upper years reading passage about sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table provided.

Sea Turtles: Cause & Effect (1)

A middle years reading passage about sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table provided.

Volcanoes: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about volcanoes. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Pitcher Plant: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about pitcher plants. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.