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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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Main Idea: The Concert

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

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Main Idea: The Book Nook

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

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Main Idea: Power Pat

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

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Visualise a Scene: Concert

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Book Shop

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Pool

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Snack

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Flood

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Desert

Read an upper years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Giraffe

Read a middle years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Jungle

Read a middle years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Visualise a Scene: Straw Hat

Read an early years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

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Inferring, Upper Yrs (4)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

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Inferring, Upper Yrs (3)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

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Inferring, Upper Yrs (2)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

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Inferring, Upper Yrs (1)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.