Reading Strategies

Browse our collection of comprehension strategy worksheets. Each worksheet focuses on a specific comprehension strategy. Comprehension strategies allow readers to make meaning from texts. Comprehension strategies include summarising, compare and contrast, visualising, cause and effect, inferring, fact and opinion, and more. Use these focus worksheets to introduce a new strategy, or to target a strategy that needs some further development.

Use the side menu to search for specific strategies or use the filter above to narrow the results by resource type and/or grade level.

These reading strategy worksheets focus on specific skills such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, fact and opinion, inferring, main idea, making connections, and visualising.

The collection includes short texts with targeted questions, along with sets that isolate one strategy at a time. For example, there are cause and effect passages built around topics like animals and everyday events, and compare tasks that ask students to work through pairs such as lions and tigers or crocodiles and alligators.

You’ll also find structured activities for inference, including circle-based tasks and guided question sets, as well as graphic organisers that help students sort and record their thinking. Some resources are designed for early use, while others extend into longer responses and more detailed comparisons.

There are also task cards, posters, and themed worksheets that give you different ways to present the same strategy, depending on how you want students to work through it.