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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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Comparing Lions & Tigers (2)

A middle years reading passage about lions and tigers. Compare using a Venn diagram.

Comparing Lions & Tigers (1)

An early years reading passage about lions and tigers. Compare using a Venn diagram.

Comparing Lions & Tigers (3)

An upper years reading passage about lions and tigers. Compare using a Venn diagram.

Superhero Text: Comparing (2)

A middle years reading passage about superheroes. Find the similarities and differences between the two superheroes.

Superhero Text: Comparing (1)

An early years reading passage about superheroes. Find the similarities and differences between the two superheroes.

Comparing Seasons (2)

An upper years reading passage about seasons in Australia. Compare summer and winter using a Venn diagram.

Comparing Seasons (1)

A middle years reading passage about seasons in Australia. Compare summer and winter using a Venn diagram.

Leo the Lion: Cause & Effect

Read a short passage about Leo the Lion. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

Beach Trip: Cause & Effect Match

Read a short passage about a trip to the beach. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

Beach Trip: Cause & Effect

Read a short passage about a trip to the beach. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Pat’s Birthday Trip: Cause & Effect Match

Read a short passage about Pat’s birthday. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

Pat’s Birthday: Cause & Effect

Read a short passage about Pat’s birthday. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.