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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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Creating Images: Bedroom

Read a short passage and try to build a visual image to match. Draw it!
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Main Idea & Details: Pirates

Read the passage about pirates and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: New Colony

Read the passage about the new colony in Australia and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Kelpies

Read the passage about kelpies and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Elephants

Read the passage about elephants and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Deserts

Read the passage about deserts and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Turtles (2)

An upper years reading passage about sea turtles. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
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Identify Main Idea: Upper

Read a collection of short passages and circle the main idea of each.
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Main Idea & Details: Tilly

Read a short passage and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Living Things

Read the passage about living things and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Kate

Read a short passage and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea & Details: Homework

Read the passage about homework and work out the main idea.
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Main Idea: Homework

Read the passage about homework and work out the main idea.
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Main Idea & Details: Dogs

Read the passage about dogs and work out the main idea and supporting details.
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Main Idea: Dogs

Read the passage about dogs and work out the main idea.
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Main Idea & Details: The Beach

Read a short passage and work out the main idea and supporting details.