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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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Compare & Contrast Poster

A poster showing compare and contrast signal words.

Compare & Contrast Card Set

A set of 16 compare and contrast cards. List similarities and differences between the objects or actions.

Early Years Reading Strategy Posters

Reading strategy posters for the early years: creating images, inferring, summarising, connections, prior knowledge & questioning.

Reading Strategy Poster Set

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

Visualise a Scene: Leaves

Read a middle years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

Main Idea: No Play

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Main Idea: Bike Ride Poem

Read the poem. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Main Idea: That’s Life

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Main Idea: Theme Park (1)

A reading passage for the early years. Read the text and work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Main Idea: Theme Park (2)

A reading passage for the upper years. Read the text and work out the main idea and the supporting details

Main Idea: Super Threads

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Main Idea: The Rescue

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.