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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.

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Main Idea & Details: Kate

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

Main Idea & Details: Homework

Read the passage about homework and work out the main idea.

Main Idea: Homework

Read the passage about homework and work out the main idea.

Main Idea & Details: Dogs

Read the passage about dogs and work out the main idea and supporting details.

Main Idea: Dogs

Read the passage about dogs and work out the main idea.

Main Idea & Details: The Beach

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

Main Idea: The Beach

Read a short passage and work out the main idea.

Main Idea & Details: The Banquet

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

Main Idea & Details: Growing Animals

Read the passage about how animals grow and work out the main idea.

Main Idea: Growing Animals

Read the passage about how animals grow and work out the main idea.

Main Idea & Details: Turtles (1)

A middle years reading passage about sea turtles. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Identify Main Idea: Middle (2)

Read a collection of short passages and circle the main idea of each.