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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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Sea Turtles: Cause & Effect (2)

An upper years reading passage about sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table provided.

Sea Turtles: Cause & Effect (1)

A middle years reading passage about sea turtles. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table provided.

Volcanoes: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about volcanoes. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Pitcher Plant: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about pitcher plants. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Ivory: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about ivory. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Elephants: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about African Elephants. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Deserts: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about deserts. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Cities: Cause & Effect

Read the passage about cities. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Cause & Effect Chain Graphic Organiser

This graphic organiser helps represent and explain a cause and effect chain (a series of events that are a result of one another).

Cause & Effect Word Search

Find the cause and effect signal words! A fun way to reinforce the concept of cause and effect.

Cause & Effect Graphic Organiser

This graphic organiser helps represent cause and effect relationships. Effect: what happened? Cause: What made it happen?

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Middle and upper years reading strategy posters: creating images, inferring, summarising, connections, prior knowledge & questioning.

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Read about the journey of the First Fleet and then answer the comprehension questions.

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A level 4 reading passage, comprehension and grammar set.

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A level 5 reading passage, comprehension and grammar set.

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Use clues to help work out the meaning of the underlined words.

Convict Punishments Reading & Comprehension

Read about the punishment of convicts during Australia’s colonial period and then answer the comprehension questions.