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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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Summarising Text: Sports

Read the passage about sports and work out the main idea.
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Identify Main Idea: Early

Read a collection of short passages and circle the main idea of each.
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Page Summary Graphic Organiser

A summarising organiser that guides learners to summarise each page in a text.
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Image Cluster Organiser

A summarising graphic organiser to help learners identify the main idea and organise their ideas.
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Main Idea Concept Map

A concept map to help learners organise their ideas and help determine the main idea of a text.
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5Ws Graphic Organiser

A graphic organiser that guides learners to answer the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why & how) to help learners identify the main idea of a text.
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Main Idea & Supporting Details Organiser

A summarising graphic organiser to help learners show the difference between the main idea and the supporting details.
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Beginning, Middle, End Graphic Organiser

A summarising graphic organiser to help learners summarise the beginning, middle and end of a text.
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Story Map Template Organiser

This template helps learners map out a story, identifying all the key events.
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Storyboard Graphic Organiser

This template helps learners map out a story by identifying all the key events.
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Inference Question Set 4

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 3

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 2

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 1

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Self-Questioning Chart

A self-questioning template to support learners developing questions to ask themselves about texts they read.
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Differentiated Inferring Set: Toby

Read the passage. Make a list of the clues and what can be inferred from the text. The easier sheet supports the learner to find clues and make inferences.