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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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Identify Main Idea: Middle (1)
Read a collection of short passages and circle the main idea of each.
Main Idea & Details: Sea Turtles
Read the passage about sea turtles and work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea & Details: Spot the Dog
Read a short passage and work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Page Summary Graphic Organiser
A summarising organiser that guides learners to summarise each page in a text.
Image Cluster Organiser
A summarising graphic organiser to help learners identify the main idea and organise their ideas.
Main Idea Concept Map
A concept map to help learners organise their ideas and help determine the main idea of a text.
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.
Main Idea & Supporting Details Organiser
A summarising graphic organiser to help learners show the difference between the main idea and the supporting details.
Beginning, Middle, End Graphic Organiser
A summarising graphic organiser to help learners summarise the beginning, middle and end of a text.