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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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Visualise a Scene: Snack

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

Visualise a Scene: Flood

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

Visualise a Scene: Desert

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

Visualise a Scene: Giraffe

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

Visualise a Scene: Jungle

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

Visualise a Scene: Straw Hat

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

Inferring in Texts (7)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Inferring in Texts (6)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Inferring in Texts (5)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Inferring in Texts (4)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Inferring in Texts (3)

Passages of text for the middle years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Inferring in Texts (2)

Passages of text for the middle years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.